Jay Faerber

Jay Faerber
Faerber at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Born	1972 (age 51–52)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Noble Causes Dynamo 5
http://www.jayfaerber.com

Jay Faerber (

During the early part of his childhood, Faerber would buy his comics from a local pharmacy, which limited his reading to Marvel and DC Comics. For Christmas 1986, Faerber, a high school freshman, was taken by his mother to his first comic book shop, Gema Books, where he discovered books from companies other than the Big Two, such as Elementals, Miracleman and The New Wave, the latter of which impressed him with its experimental biweekly, 16-page format, its emphasis on character depth over physical combat, and the originality of the character's personalities.^[4]

As a child, Faerber would write and draw his own comics, though he assumed that writing was merely a means to provide something for him to draw. This changed by his first or second year of high school, when he discovered the TV series

Faerber's first ongoing series writing assignment was Generation X, which he began with issue #45 (December 1998).^[19] Assignments on The New Warriors and The Titans would follow.^[15]

In 2002, Faerber began publishing through Image Comics the series Noble Causes, which follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family, and which emphasized their interpersonal conflicts over battles with supervillain enemies. The series lasted until 2008, and concluded with issue #40.^[20][21]

In 2007, Faerber debuted the Noble Causes spinoff, Dynamo 5, which starred a group of five illegitimate of the assassinated superhero Captain Dynamo, who were assembled by Dynamo's widow in order to protect Tower City. Like Noble Causes, Dynamo 5 was also a monthly series by Image Comics that depicted the superhero family dynamics, but placed more emphasis on action, dividing its content between the team's battles with adversaries and its interpersonal conflicts.^[22] Dynamo 5 ended its ongoing run with issue #25 (Oct. 2009), and continued with a series of miniseries and one-shots.

In 2008, Faerber published a miniseries called Gemini, which stars Dan Johnson, an ordinary man who is unaware that at night, he comes under the control of an organization called the Constellation, who transform ordinary people like him into crimefighters named after star constellations, without any of these people retaining any knowledge or memory of these events.^[23] Although intended as a five-issue miniseries,^[24] the last issue published was issue #4 (July 2009), which featured a guest appearance by Dynamo 5. In December 2016, Image published Gemini: The Complete Series, which included the unpublished fifth issue.^[25]

In September 2011, Faerber debuted

In 2014 Faerber premiered Copperhead, a science fiction Western series set on a planet of the same name. The series, which is drawn by Scott Godlewski, is inspired by the idea,"What if Deadwood had aliens?"^[26] He also joined the writing staff of the CBS TV series Zoo, which began airing in 2015. The first episode Faerber wrote was the series' fifth episode, "Blame It On Leo"^[29][30] and he remained with the show for its entire three year run. In 2019 Faerber joined the writing staff of Supergirl.

Writing habits and approach]

Faerber gets up between 6:00 and 6:30am, tries to be at the desk in his home office/study writing by 9am. He says that he spends much time at the desk thinking about the stories he writes, even though days may go by with nothing to show for it. When attempting to conceive of the premise of a new series, he will sometimes play video games on his PlayStation 3 in order to let his mind "wander", and will keep a notepad handy in order to jot down ideas as they come to him. He takes a half-hour lunch in the early afternoon, and then continues working until 4pm. He describes himself as a "morning person", saying, "I know I'm pretty useless past 6 or 7pm". As of September 2014, he works on a MacBook Air, running OS X Mavericks.^[31]

Faerber writes his comic book scripts in Mozilla's Open Office software, and I ^[who?] write his television scripts in Final Draft, though he does not use the latter's automatic formatting or templates, as he prefers to perform those tasks manually, explaining that he is a fast typist. Although he likes the idea of using applications in his writing, and has Evernote on his iPhone, iPad and laptop, he does not use it, preferring to write down ideas on his phone's Notes application. He uses GoodReader on his iPad, and the Adonit Jot Pro stylus to write notes on scripts written by himself or others. He prefers to work in silence rather than listen to music, but will wear Bose noise-cancelling headphones to listen to instrumental film or television soundtracks that "fit" with what he is writing if the noise from the school across the street from his home becomes too distracting.^[31]

Personal life

Faerber lived in the Gig Harbor, Washington area,^[32] before moving with his wife to Burbank, California^[2] shortly before September 2014.^[31]

Filmography

• Ringer
  • 1.08 - Maybe We Can Get a Dog Instead (writer) (2011)
  • 1.16 - You're Way Too Pretty to Go to Jail (writer with Cathryn Humphris) (2012)
  • 1.19 - Let's Kill Bridget! (writer with Bob Berens) (2012)
• Avengers Assemble
  • 1.09 - Depth Charge (writer with
    Man of Action
    ) (2013)
  • 1.14 - Hulk's Day Out (writer with Man of Action) (2013)
• Star-Crossed
  • 1.07 - To Seek A Foe (writer) (2014)
  • 1.11 - Give me a Torch (writer with Marc Halsey) (2014)
• Zoo
  • 1.05 - Blame It on Leo (writer) (2015)
  • 1.08 - The Cheese Stands Alone (writer with Scott Rosenberg) (2015)
  • 1.10 - Emotional Contagion (writer) (2015)
  • 2.03 - Collision Point (writer with Rebekah F. Smith) (2016)
  • 2.06 - Sex, Lies & Jellyfish (writer with Matt Pitts) (2016)
  • 2.10 - Yellow Brick Road (writer with Matt Pitts) (2016)
  • 3.03 - Ten Years Gone (writer with Shintaro Shimosawa) (2017)
  • 3.07 - Wham, Bam, Thank You Sam (writer with Shintaro Shimosawa) (2017)
  • 3.10 - Once Upon a Time in the Next (writer with Shintaro Shimosawa) (2017)
• Supergirl
  • 5.04 - In Plain Sight (writer with Jess Kardos) (2019)
  • 5.09 - Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One (teleplay with Derek Simon, story by Robert Rovner & Marc Guggenheim) (2019)
  • 5.15 - Reality Bites (writer with Dana Horgan) (2020)
  • 6.01 - Rebirth (teleplay with Jess Kardos, story by Robert Rovner & Jessica Queller) (2021)
  • 6.08 - Welcome Back, Kara (writer with Dana Horgan) (2021)
  • 6.13 - The Gauntlet (teleplay with Brooke Pohl, story by Dana Horgan) (2021)
  • 6.19 - The Last Gauntlet (teleplay with Derek Simon, story by J. Holtham) (2021)

Bibliography

References

External links

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• Jay Faerber at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Dynamo 5
• Scripts & Scribes Interview with Jay Faerber

Preceded by Evan Skolnick	New Warriors writer 1999–2000	Succeeded by Zeb Wells
Preceded by Larry Hama	Generation X writer 1999–2000	Succeeded by Brian Wood
Preceded by Devin Grayson	Teen Titans writer 2000–2002	Succeeded by Tom Peyer
Preceded by Ron Marz	Green Lantern writer 2000	Succeeded by Judd Winick