I am happy to confirm that this is still just as delightful as I remembered it being. :)Mike Carey has written many excellent comics/graphic novels/whatever-you-want-to-call-them, but My Faith in Frankie might just be my favourite one. Much praise goes to the art-team of Sonny Liew and Marc Hempel. The artwork complements the words perfectly, resulting in story that is funny, charming and deliciously over the top (in a very pleasing way).
Originally a four issue full colour mini-series in comic book format, it was then collected into a smaller sized black and white collection. If you have the chance, try to either get the original comics or the "Vertigo Resurrected" edition that reprinted them in their original format and in colour. The artwork is excellent and the small format doesn't do it justice and the colouring really contributes to setting the moods and black and white does not work quite as well for this. (If however the black and white digest version is all you can get, get it anyway, you will still have lots of fun.)
This definitely deserves more recognition (and a proper full size & colour trade paperback treatment)!
My Faith in Frankie by Mike Carey, Sonny Liew and Marc Hempel
My goodreads-rating: 5 of 5 stars
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