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Silverfish - David Lapham

Silverfish David Lapham Vertigo Comics David Lapham's name may be currently associated with Marvel's merry mutants via his work on Deadpool Max and Age of Apocalypse, but he made his name on creator owned titles such as the crime epic Stray Bullets and the cubist mind-fuck of Young Liars.  Yet his work is best crystallised in the stand-alone graphic novel Silverfish.  It covers all his bases; murder, secrets, lies, misplaced machismo, lust, teenage arrogance, and that staple of suspense and intrigue - small town America. The life of teenage Mia Fleming is straight out of a Bruce Springsteen song; living in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, with her cop dad and her "stupid bitch" step mother Suzanne.  Her pre-occupations are her little sister, boys and a jealous best friend.  When her Dad enjoys a weekend away with "the boys" she tries to dig up some dirt on her step mother and uncovers an ex-boyfriend, Daniel, and involves him in teenage telephone prank