User is a
comic created by writer
Devin Grayson. User follows the story of a woman, Meg, who has problems in her life. She works at a large company and still lives with her parents and younger sister, Annie. Her mother leaves them with her father, and Annie starts to be periodically
raped by their father's friend Cal.
But Meg can't handle these problems, she doesn't know how to stand up to them. At work, they've recently put up a server with full
internet access. Meg creates a new identity in the computer, and begins to play chatroom-based rpgs. Her character
Sir Guiliamme de la Couer, a French paladin, is everything that she isn't: Brave, honourable, and upholds his code of conduct.
Meg starts to ignore her real life, and tries to become Guilliame. But outside her computer the bad things are still happening.. and she might have to face a rude awakening.
User is a
creator-owned Vertigo three-part comic. The story is written by
Devin Grayson, with
John Bolton drawing the Meg's real world, and
Sean Phillips drawing Meg's imaginary fantasy world. User is a very good comic describing the kind of people who play the
chatroom RPGs and the sort of lives they may be trying to escape.