Proposition Player
DC/Vertigo.
Proposition
Player (6-issue mini; w Bill Willingham; a Paul Guinan, Bill Willingham).
[From DC Comics: FABLES was one of the surprise hits of 2002, with
issues and the first collection selling out quickly. Now re-discover the
first VERTIGO miniseries by critically acclaimed writer and FABLES creator
Bill Willingham that puts a pro poker player in the middle of a battle between
two celestial beings over a handful of souls. When professional poker player
Joey Martin collects vouchers for the souls of a roomful of people as a
bar prank, he's just anted up for a game he never imagined in PROPOSITION
PLAYER, a 144-page trade paperback collecting the original 6-issue miniseries
that brought inimitable writer/artist Willingham (FABLES, The Elementals)
to VERTIGO. And with art by Willingham, Paul Guinan (CHRONOS) & Ron
Randall (THE DREAMING), a new cover by Willingham, and an introduction by
professional poker writer and World Series of Poker competitor Jim McManus,
PROPOSITION PLAYER is a bet readers won't want to pass up. PROPOSITION PLAYER
is a caustically funny, deftly satirical story of redemption in the casinos
of Las Vegas...and beyond. Joey is a "proposition player" paid
by a casino to fill empty seats at high-stakes poker games. Arrogant, talented
and strangely likable, he's especially good at talking his way into trouble.
Like when, just for kicks, he offers a co-worker a beer in exchange for
his soul. After the rest of his colleagues get in on the action, Joey's
out a good chunk of change, with nothing to show for it but a pile of his
friends' handwritten notes signing over their souls. Joey thinks they're
just worthless scraps of paper, but envoys from Heaven and Hell think differently.
Suddenly, Joey's caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between celestial
powers, with an ever-expanding angel named Bill on one side and the sinfully
sexy devil-woman named Hell Mary on the other. How can Vegas’ smoothest
talker talk his way out of this?] 