Faerber's view of the series' ability, at the time, to stand on its own without requiring reading the related titles influenced Faerber's stated practice of keeping his own creator-owned books independent of one another, in order to avoid obligating readers of one of his titles to read the others in order to comprehend the storyline.

This changed by his first or second year of high school, when he discovered the TV series Spenser: For Hire, and later, the novels on which it was based by Robert B. Parker, whom Faerber names as the biggest single influence on his career as a writer.

[5] Faerber has also cited as influences the crime novels of Andrew Vachss, Robert Crais and Lee Child,[9] as well as the television writing and detective novels of Stephen J. Cannell,[10] in particular his work on the TV series Wiseguy,[11] and Chris Haddock's work on the Canadian TV series Da Vinci's Inquest.

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.

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.

[25] In September 2011, Faerber debuted Near Death, a crime series whose lead character, Markham, is an assassin who sets out to atone for his past sins after capturing a glimpse of hell during a near-death experience.

During the course of the book, which mostly consists of self-contained stories, Markham saves people's lives (some of whom are targeted by other hitmen working for his former clients), not because his near-death experience made him a more altruistic person, but solely because of his self-interested motive in avoiding hell, a point with which Faerber hopes to explore questions of moral character and the nature of heroism.

[26] Faerber was a writer on the CW TV series Ringer, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, and ran from September 2011[27] to May 2012.

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.

He uses GoodReader on his iPad, and the Adonit Jot Pro stylus to write notes on scripts written by himself or others.

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