The deep-space cruiser Infinity 8 is blocked from its journey due to a massive field of debris containing wreckage and artifacts from countless planets, cultures, and possibly dimensions. 8 agents are sent out to investigate the anomaly, each one sent out in a parallel time-loop to collect information. This is the first agent's experience!

Unfortunately, I didn't expect this book to be so goofy in action. The first agent is sent out after an alien race who feast on the dead... and then take on the dead's personality until they digest. It made for a comedic story but also kind of stupid?! And honestly I'm not sure how her investigations helped the original premise!? The art is kind of crude and cartoonish for my taste. i liked it better when the art was balanced like the cover with the cartoonish girl against the more serious background... unfortunately it wasn't like this a lot of the time... There was nudity too that just made the whole story a little more explicit than I signed up for.

The thing is I TOTALLY wanted to learn about the anomaly... I wanted to understand what was going down... I didn't even mind the crazy dead eating alien race if it wasn't done so tongue in cheek and has a serious aspect to the story. In the end I just wanted the story to be over... though she was rather smart in how she tied up the complication at the end.

Where the story suffered wasn't the crazy alien race or the science of the time loop or the captain that flew the ship... it was the nasty stuff in the anomaly! If some efforts were actually accomplished in explaining what happened at least loosely then I could have gone on with the humorous parts, but as it is it was just okay.

In the end I was a little disappointed in Infinity 8 even though I would totally recommend it to those who love tongue in the cheek stories and humor that pushes the boundaries. I actually would read the next volume just to see if the story gains any ground with the anomaly as I'm still totally curious about what caused it... It's terribly creative, I just wish it had lived up to its promise.

I didn't care for Yoko's constant self-centered relationship discussions, nor her dated male fantasy character design. Both took away from the sci-fi elements and plot (which was supposed to be the primary plot but fell back to become the secondary plot).

This was just ok for me. It wasn't a very original story (which is difficult to find these days anyway), but it also wasn't interesting enough to keep me wanting to read. There's also a sexualization to the main character that's completely unnecessary for her and the story.

The city-sized, deep-space cruise ship "Infinity 8" stops halfway en route between the Milky Way and Andromeda, blocked by a massive necropolis.. Our intrepid heroine is a space agent sent out by the ship’s captain to investigate. Her mission is complicated by the presence of a race of death eating aliens who descend on the necropolis and attempt to eat everything in sight. Only problem is they take on the characteristics of whatever they eat, be it love or lust for power.

With the help of a death eating alien who has developed a massive crush on her, our heroine manages to defeat the power crazed aliens, saves the ship and all is right with the universe. This was a fun read in a seventies heavy metal comic sort of way. I enjoyed it but taking it for what it was - simple entertainment.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

If I didn’t already know that Infinity 8 is a French comic, reading it would make that crystal clear. It has a French feel about it, from the art reminiscent of Moebius, to the laconic dialogue scenes, to (most tellingly) the glimpse of casual nudity and the protagonist who wears a skin-tight spacesuit straight out of 1950s pinup illustrations.

It isn’t a very complex book, but I did enjoy it well enough. The main character, Yoko Keren, is an agent tasked with saving everyone on her ship from certain catastrophe. The captain of her ship is a massive alien who can roll back time eight hours to give them another chance to survive, but it needs her help to know what to expect. This means that Keren can fail up to a certain point, but she has to prevent the ship and captain from being destroyed before they can roll back time.

When Keren goes outside the ship to investigate an anomaly, she discovers a debris field full of dead bodies – a veritable floating space necropolis. Shortly thereafter, she is followed outside by a species of aliens who can’t resist eating the dead, and hijinks ensue. This mostly involves dead things exploding in chunks of gore and aliens chasing her because they want to kill and eat her. She handles all of this with aplomb and never seems particularly ruffled, even when coated with blood and gore or fending off the attentions of an amorous alien.

For some reason Keren is also obsessed with having a baby, constantly scanning everyone around her for their genetic suitability. Mostly this involves scanning aliens and telling them that they wouldn’t work. It’s a very odd detail to include.

I think mostly I enjoyed the art style and the deadpan conversations Keren has with the aliens she meets in space in the middle of a field of corpses. It’s all so very macabre and charming.

The series does continue after this volume, but it feels like it could wrap up here. This volume reads like a fairly self-contained story, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. To be honest, I’m not sure if I would be interested in reading the rest of the series.

Not really my cup of tea. The story itself sounded interesting, but I found it difficult to care for any part of it.

I've gone a bit click-happy on Netgalley when it comes to graphic novels. I think it's because I'm searching for the next Saga: something to fill the hole in my chest whilst I wait for vol. 9 to be released. Unfortunately, Infinity 8 is not the next Saga...

The city-sized, deep-space cruise ship "Infinity 8" stops halfway in route between the Milky Way and Andromeda, blocked by a massive field of debris containing wreckage and artefacts from countless planets, cultures, and possibly dimensions. The captain of the ship calls upon eight of the ship's top security to investigate the anomaly, each one sent out in a parallel time-loop to collect information which he can then assemble to hopefully discover the truth before disaster erupts. Each time loop lasts only 8 hours, at which point things snap back to the way they were when they started, with no memories of their time in that window. Can the 8 agents solve the mystery without making things worse? Danger reveals itself within the inter-species population on the ship, some of whom may know more than they lead on . . .

The first volume introduces us to the crew and Captain of the Infinity 8 as they first encounter the anomaly, and the first security agent—the brassy Yoko Keren—is sent on the case. But she’s more preoccupied with her own relationship woes (or lack-of-relationship woes) to focus on the job. When a race of necrophagous aliens follow her into the floating graveyard, they begin to assimilate the criminal and violent behaviour of the corpses they devour. With their attention turned back to the ship itself, Yoko has to find a way to stop them from destroying the ship before her time loop expires?

I have a feeling that the synopsis for this graphic novel is going to be much longer than my actual review because I don't feel like I've got anything to say about this. You can see from my rating that I didn't particularly enjoy this.

Considering it's supposed to be a space opera, it was so much goofier than I thought it would be. It just didn't seem that serious in places considering what was happening. There's basically an alien race who feast on the dead, and then once they've eaten the dead person, they take on the personality traits of the person they've just eaten - think iZombie... To be honest, at first, it was quite funny because the 'main alien' had eaten a lovestruck person, so it was hilarious to see the personality change. But after a little bit, it got boring and stupid.

I think one of the brilliant things about this graphic novel was the artwork. I really did like it, even though it had slight cartoonish elements. You can definitely see that there is a high level of detail, and when there is a full spread of an art piece with no text, you can just see how talented Dominique Bertail is.

Overall, I was disappointed with Infinity 8. I was expecting a serious space graphic novel, but instead, I ended up with a tongue-in-cheek story that didn't really capture my attention. However, I do actually think that I would read volume two because I want to see if we are given any more information on the spaceship and the handful of the characters that we met.

Dislcaimer: this book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

I won't lie, I saw the cover of this, big boobs in space and thought "okay, I can give this a go".

The heroine kicks a large space dude's ass within the first 3 pages of the book, so you know she's got skills and adventure is bound to ensue.

Adventure happens, the storyline is a little muddled in that there's a few moments where you think "okay... if this is how you run your ship you'll all be dead in a week" or "for a security officer you don't seem to have much protocol..." so yeah, some head scratchers but if you look past those, it's squishy space fun. There is a small wibbly wobbly timey wimey hiccup, a solar system wide debris field blocking the path of a massive interstellar transport bound for ... that doesn't really matter. There is a ship full of creatures on course, they hit a road block and our buxomly lady officer heads out (by herself on a ship of thousands) to investigate. Action and even some romance ensue, we see old cool rotting space

What I really enjoyed in this was the creativity in the characters that surrounded our fairly standard humanoid protagonist, the design in the ship's captain, the deranged Ood looking fellas that ate dead things... there was so much physiological diversity represented. The designs were not limited to just various impersonations of the bi-pedal form we all know and use daily but all kinds of stuff which space would/will definitely have. Kudos for realism in fantasy. Some aliens will look like that old cat lady Edith who lives above you and some are going to look like shit you've never even imagined, because how could you know to imagine it?!

I've seen some readers throw flack that this was just a shoot 'em up action in space comic with a cartoonishly disproportionate leading lady that violated their powerful feminine ideals... I'm sorry but what exactly were you expecting when you saw the cover? This comic didn't lie about where we were going here.

I'd read more!

I recieved this electronic arc in exchange for an honest review.

So this is about a young woman on the spaceship Infinity 8. Which houses thousands of species of creatures. Our main character is an officer sent out to investigate a necropolis in the middle of space. She has to find out how it got there and why. Hilarity ensues with one of the species of Aliens from the ship who eat dead things.

The art is really cool and thw storyline is great too. The main character is a little too sexualised for my taste but that could just be this one volume... I'd definitely be interested in reading more of the series

Why is the main character hyper sexualized? Very off-putting.
Some of the art is good but it’s overshadowed by the giant breasts of the MC. I’m sure she has a name but I keep referring to her as space boobs.
Space boobs is an idiot.
With a different artist, this story might have worked.

This was an intriguing adventure. A city spaceship is traveling by the Milky Way when they find an unknown asteroid field that turns out to be a collection of death markers, or memorials. Yoko is sent out to discover what exactly is going on. She is armed with the knowledge that the captain on the ship plans on rewinding the clock by 8 hours after she figures out what is going on, so that they can safely bypass this section of space. And thank goodness for that time turner, as it is going to be needed. Lots of interesting things happen. An alien species on board happen to be a type of death eater, but they also take on the property and personality of the dead they eat, and cause a great havoc outside the ship. This was such an interesting story, and I cannot wait to read the next adventures, and see how the rewinding of time changes events.

It was different. I liked the illustrations. Story is funny and easy to read. I am looking for volume 2.

Entertaining space romp and I'm looking forward to volume two. The art was wonderful. I read it on an eInk device so I got it all in gray-scale but it translated beautifully which speaks highly of the colorist.

This graphic novel was a bit of a ill-fated cross between iZombie and the Ood alien race from Doctor Who; it takes the worst elements from them rather than the best. I did not like the story. It made little sense and I DNF'd it about three-quarters of the way through. The main character is far too sexualized and without any good reason for it except that this is what comic books do, of course. It needs to stop.

For reasons unknown, the city-sized spaceship containing a variety of aliens is halfway between the Milky Way and Andromeda when it encounters a debris field. Space being only two-dimensional as it so often is in these stories, the ship can't go over the debris, so it's halted and the captain, again for no good reason, decides to investigate.

The investigation is a joke and goes nowhere nor does it try to go anywhere. Once again, just as in Star Trek, we're faced here with a futuristic society in which all of the robotics, and AI, and drones which we have today, has not only failed to advance, but has also somehow inexplicably been lost to history, so instead of robots going out to investigate, we have to send humans. Fallible. Distractable. Weak. Troublesome humans.

So poor is the management of this ship that aliens also get loose. One of this particular alien race (the Ood rip-offs) is in love with the main character while another of the same race wants her dead - again for no reason, while a bunch more of these aliens are trying to destroy the very ship they're traveling on - and the ship the size of a city evidently has no peacekeepers or law enforcement on board! I think that sense continued the journey while the ship got left behind. That hypothesis honestly explains a lot in this story.

I don't think very many sci-fi writers expend much energy on thinking about how their alien races evolved. They simply create the aliens because they think they look cool and that's the way it is no matter how ridiculous or improbable they all are. So these aliens were once again a poor and irrational assortment, all of them derivative of Earth species, so none of them really looked alien.

Worse, these writers have aliens falling in love with humans without giving any thought to the improbability of it. It would be like trying to get people to take you seriously while your story has a human fall in love with a shark or a boa constrictor. I can't take a story like this seriously, and I cannot recommend this at all.

'Infinity 8 Vol. 1: Love and Mummies' by Lewis Trondheim with art by Zep and Dominique Bertail is a kind of silly space story, but I kind of liked it.

The Infinity 8 is a deep space cruiser with lots of different species on board. Yoko Keren is a security officer. When the ship finds an odd debris field, she is sent to investigate. What she finds is a large collection of corpses from spaceship and planets and even old buildings floating in space. An alien race on board the Infinity 8 goes into a feeding frenzy because they like to feast on the dead. The only problem is that they kind of take on the personality of what they ingest. So some become love hungry, and some become power mad. Now the only person able to help the ship is Keren, with the help of her over-infatuated alien partner.

It was a kind of goofy story, but I liked how it played out. It reminded me a little of some of the funny space stories from Heavy Metal magazine. The art is ok too. I like how the aliens seemed to morph a bit based on what they were eating.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lion Forge, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

In a plot far too confusing to be summarized here, a spaceship cop is sent outside into a space junkyard to find out what’s going on, and hopefully tell the reader too.
It’s one thing for her to be wearing such a tight spacesuit—justifiable, but not likely—but the uniform she wears on the job is ridiculous, and leads me to not be able to take her seriously as a security agent. Another female agent is dressed the same way, cleavage practically falling out. Bad job by the artist there, but who knows what he’s thinking.
Lots of scenery porn in the shape of. . . well, a lot of different shapes of aliens. The ship is shaped like a high-heeled shoe!
Best line: “Kiss my ass.” “Okay. Is that how humans do it?”
Though it happens a lot in these stories, I still don’t like how Captain Obvious she is. Turns out she’s kinda dumb too. An officer never gives up their weapon!
Brightly painted, especially for being in space.
After a page of in-story commercials, some of them funny, there’s a big sign that says “14 pages of extras!” Cute, but too late to make a difference.
2.5 pushed up to 3/5

A fun and fast paced graphic novel. The sci-fi edge and all the aliens was fun too. I'll recommend to patrons.