Sleeper (comic book)
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Sleeper is a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint. It concerns the travails of Holden Carver, a covert operative who has been placed undercover in a villainous organisation led by TAO, a WildC.A.T.s villain from Alan Moore's run. Sleeper is set in the Wildstorm Universe and has also crossed over with The Authority. Sleeper is a spin-off of Point Blank, a miniseries about Grifter from WildC.A.T.s and John Lynch from Gen13 that was also written by Ed Brubaker.
At the end of Season Two, Holden Carver is left in a vegetative state. His superior John Lynch puts him under the influence of some psychoactive drug which has the vegetative Holden believe that he is finally retired and living with Gretchen (Ms. Misery) and Veronica St. James on a tropical island. Tao had his tongue ripped out by Holden as a last effort to 'disarm' the main villian of the series.It is here that the story ends. A prequel is in the works.