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Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
"What if superheroes were real?" is obviously a heavily mined premise for countless expressions of American comics' most enduring genre category. Less common is the premise, "No, I mean, what if superheroes were really real?" put forth by Jay Faerber in many of the comics he's written over the last decade, most especially the multi-volume Noble Causes and its spinoff Dynamo 5, which detail the personal lives of a dynasty of heroes. Faerber's fascination with the intersection of real people and fantastical powers continues in Anti-Hero, a new digital-first work for Monkeybrain whose first issue imagines how a superhero's lifestyle would impact the stability of his family, with an added twist: what happens when that superhero's secret identity is compromised by an opportunistic street criminal?