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Infinity 8 #1
Romance et macchabées
Croisière intergalactique de L'infinity 8, jour 15. Le vaisseau est bloqué par un gigantesque amas d'artéfacts, de bouts de planètes et de sépultures. L'infinity 8 est-il condamné à finir sa carrière englouti dans ce répugnant mausolée géant ? Le sort de 88 000 passagers de 257 races différentes est en jeu... Les meilleurs agents du spacio-paquebot ont intérêt à se surpasser pour le sortir de ce pétrin.
L’agente Yoko Keren, plus préoccupée de trouver un géniteur idéal que de faire respecter l’ordre au sein de L’Infinity 8, est la première agente missionnée par le Capitaine. Le vaisseau vient d’être arrêté sur son trajet par un amas mystérieux, à elle d’en découvrir la nature et l’origine. Mais à peine approche-t-elle de ce qui s’avère être un mausolée géant, qu’un groupe de Kornaliens, seule espèce nécrophage de l’Infinity, s’échappe du vaisseau. Ils assimilent, en même temps que les cadavres, les comportements, en l’occurrence criminels et violents, de ceux qu’ils dévorent… Il ne reste à la belle agente qu’un allié, Sagoss, le seul nécrophage à avoir englouti un romantique exalté… et à s'être transformé du coup en amoureux fou mais ultra lourdingue. Arrivera-t-elle à éviter l’explosion du vaisseau jusqu’au reboot ?
L’agente Yoko Keren, plus préoccupée de trouver un géniteur idéal que de faire respecter l’ordre au sein de L’Infinity 8, est la première agente missionnée par le Capitaine. Le vaisseau vient d’être arrêté sur son trajet par un amas mystérieux, à elle d’en découvrir la nature et l’origine. Mais à peine approche-t-elle de ce qui s’avère être un mausolée géant, qu’un groupe de Kornaliens, seule espèce nécrophage de l’Infinity, s’échappe du vaisseau. Ils assimilent, en même temps que les cadavres, les comportements, en l’occurrence criminels et violents, de ceux qu’ils dévorent… Il ne reste à la belle agente qu’un allié, Sagoss, le seul nécrophage à avoir englouti un romantique exalté… et à s'être transformé du coup en amoureux fou mais ultra lourdingue. Arrivera-t-elle à éviter l’explosion du vaisseau jusqu’au reboot ?
104 pages, Hardcover
First published January 25, 2017
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Lewis Trondheim
524 books240 followersThe phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
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July 1, 2018
I had a lot of fun with this. It feels like it just stepped out of Heavy Metal. Follows an agent for a city sized cruise ship in space as she investigates a necropolis the size of a solar system. When a race of ghoulish aliens storms out to eat the dead, chaos ensues. Our agent is sexed up in a 70's heavy metal van kind of way like a lot of European comics of the same era. Quite an inventive world full of unique looking aliens.
July 15, 2018
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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!
What a doozy of a premise! I totally signed up for the premise above... only I didn't expect it 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 gross and a little too 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 some nudity too and some suspect appendages in the background 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 met its promise.
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⋆ ⋆ ⭐⭐⭐ Art
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. It has not influenced my opinions.
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May 27, 2018
I felt like I was 13 years old again reading a Heavy Metal magazine.
That's a good thing.
That's a good thing.
April 7, 2023
A fun adventure in space.
I picked this up because the art looked really attractive to me (and not just because there's a babe on the cover). I like the organic, rushed line art - it reminds me of Simon Roy - and the lighting/coloring is fantastic. I also like Lewis Trondheim, who co-writes this story.
The story is tight and interesting. Infinity 8 is a mega spaceship flying through space at a million times the speed of light. There's over 200 species on board. The ship stops when it encounters debris in space - artifacts from countless planets, including graveyards - that needs investigating. Unfortunately one of the species on board the ship really like to eat dead things, so they leave the ship and eat the corpses floating in space... and go insane.
There's a love interest subplot that works quite well and brings depth to the story.
I'm interested in reading more from this series.
I picked this up because the art looked really attractive to me (and not just because there's a babe on the cover). I like the organic, rushed line art - it reminds me of Simon Roy - and the lighting/coloring is fantastic. I also like Lewis Trondheim, who co-writes this story.
The story is tight and interesting. Infinity 8 is a mega spaceship flying through space at a million times the speed of light. There's over 200 species on board. The ship stops when it encounters debris in space - artifacts from countless planets, including graveyards - that needs investigating. Unfortunately one of the species on board the ship really like to eat dead things, so they leave the ship and eat the corpses floating in space... and go insane.
There's a love interest subplot that works quite well and brings depth to the story.
I'm interested in reading more from this series.
February 25, 2019
Si William Hope Hodgson a écrit Barbarella...
November 29, 2020
This is a French produced US-style comic, a first volume collecting the initial three issues. Other than the comics presentation, this is an entirely French graphic novel with an entirely French sense of snark. It is a glorious piss take of Golden Age sci-fi in every aspect, but is actually a superb exemplar of the genre it is lampooning. There’s layer upon layer of irony here. That’s how you do satire!
We have a generation ship flying from galaxy to galaxy. It stops to investigate a strange debris field that turns out to be a necropolis. Cue our heroine, a snarky kick-ass agent with a figure and outfits straight out of a Golden Age pinup gallery, whose spare time is spent seeking in vain for an appropriate male genitor, of whatever species, in order to get some maternity leave. Despite the comedic hypersexualisation of her image, she is a very effective action hero who gets the messy job done without being ruffled, despite several setbacks. She might be all tits and ass, but she’s one of the most competent female protagonists I’ve come across in sci-fi. Hence the send-up of her “traditional” image.
The story is a very simple one, but effective. Initially sent to investigate what the necropolis is and how it came to be there, our heroine soon has other problems when necrophage passengers from the ship go nuts for this smorgasbord of corpses, and she has to restore order on her own. Cue a huge amount of visual gags involving bits of bodies. This is all about pushing this gross taboo to the limits. Our heroine is followed throughout by a lovelorn alien, and their banter is hilarious, full of put downs, but it all goes towards the simple but robust, logical, solid storyline. Nothing here is throwaway. It’s good clean dirty humour tied into the plot.
The art is very good too, with huge visual imagination for all the backgrounds and alien species. There are innumerable little movie and cartoon homages to spot here and there, which is fun in itself. I would have liked the art to be neater and clearer in places, but it’s very effective in conveying the story, nicely cinematic.
Overall, this is no classic, but it’s a non-PC bucketful of puerile fun that delivers on quality without taking itself seriously in any way. I’ll look out for the next in the series.
We have a generation ship flying from galaxy to galaxy. It stops to investigate a strange debris field that turns out to be a necropolis. Cue our heroine, a snarky kick-ass agent with a figure and outfits straight out of a Golden Age pinup gallery, whose spare time is spent seeking in vain for an appropriate male genitor, of whatever species, in order to get some maternity leave. Despite the comedic hypersexualisation of her image, she is a very effective action hero who gets the messy job done without being ruffled, despite several setbacks. She might be all tits and ass, but she’s one of the most competent female protagonists I’ve come across in sci-fi. Hence the send-up of her “traditional” image.
The story is a very simple one, but effective. Initially sent to investigate what the necropolis is and how it came to be there, our heroine soon has other problems when necrophage passengers from the ship go nuts for this smorgasbord of corpses, and she has to restore order on her own. Cue a huge amount of visual gags involving bits of bodies. This is all about pushing this gross taboo to the limits. Our heroine is followed throughout by a lovelorn alien, and their banter is hilarious, full of put downs, but it all goes towards the simple but robust, logical, solid storyline. Nothing here is throwaway. It’s good clean dirty humour tied into the plot.
The art is very good too, with huge visual imagination for all the backgrounds and alien species. There are innumerable little movie and cartoon homages to spot here and there, which is fun in itself. I would have liked the art to be neater and clearer in places, but it’s very effective in conveying the story, nicely cinematic.
Overall, this is no classic, but it’s a non-PC bucketful of puerile fun that delivers on quality without taking itself seriously in any way. I’ll look out for the next in the series.
July 21, 2021
Infinity 8 is best thought of not by a volume-by-volume basis, but when viewing the series as a whole. One can read all eight volumes in a sitting and a half, and really most of the volumes stand so poorly on their own that they really have to be judged collectively to be judged at all. Even by this completionist standard, Infinity 8 is a curious and underwhelming thing. It feels a bit like Valerian, if Valerian languished on the reject pile of Metal Hurlant, and trades on the concept of a luxurious, city-sized space ark that comes across a massive necropolis in interstellar space. The ship's captain is a strange alien that can "reboot time" by eight hours, eight times, so each volume of the series is more or less the same: a sexy female operative is summoned by the captain, endures sleazy come-ons by the executive officer, and is sent out to investigate the necropolis. Mayhem ensues, the ship is usually under dire peril, and eventually it all comes down to the captain rebooting things. The writers and artists tend to switch up by volume (Olivier Vatine has an especially good turn on the artwork in Volume 2, even if the writing in that one is, frankly, stupid and offensive), so the quality tends to vary a little. But the real problem here is that none of this really grabs us at all until the last volume when we finally understand what's going on. Expecting us to gut it out for seven volumes before finally getting to the real story is asking a but much, even if the eventual payoff is pretty interesting.
July 4, 2018
'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.
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.
October 12, 2022
Infinity 8 Vol 1: Love and Mummies charges of at a rollcoaster pace and never lets up from the beginning! It is full of daring do, epic worldbuilding, returning and new characters, character development, diplomacy, food resources, epic vistas, collaboration, time travel, plot twists, great eye popping art, three-dimensional characters, edge of the seat events, giant ships, rockets, hungry aliens, detective work, heroics, exploration, diplomacy, rib breaking humour, old and new plots, red herrings, adventure and action!
May 23, 2018
Who knew space could be such a gory place? (So many flying corpse bits, man. And squelchy sound effects.) That said, I'm still intrigued by the premise of the series and would like to see where the authors take the next volume.
September 22, 2021
Simpatično. Vidit ću di će dalje odletit.
January 26, 2019
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.
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.
June 5, 2018
I didn't like the illustrations style and neither the story. Unoriginal, unnecessary nudity, full of clichés. Don't see the points of that one!
August 15, 2018
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
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
January 12, 2019
Previously published at Full of Words. Full disclosure: I received a review copy from NetGalley.
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.
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.
June 19, 2018
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
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
November 17, 2025
"Comix Buro" ¦ 20×29 ¦ D.L. 01/2017 ¦ rear:₈tomes ¦ 17€ = eo
Narrative: *
I was brutally blind-sided by incessant and outrageous level of grossness of this 'OUTER-SPACE TENTACULAR-MOUTHED NECRO-BUFFET GORE-FEST' (title unexaggerated). I'm angry about having to stomach that degree of the horrific- which certainly only belongs in dark horror genre titles!
Then, I found none of the intended humor in the side-story of her trying to find a father by scanning EVERY bizarre sort of lifeform for compatibility, while being shockingly picky about family history of medical problems, she didn't care what freakish hybrid non-sensical appearance that the child would have. Also, agents of her caliber know who their captain is- but two veteran writers ignored that for easier exposition to the reader.
Visual: ***
While great as usual, and I do adore his work, his complicity in making art that got to rapidly bothering me, scores him lower here.
Narrative: *
I was brutally blind-sided by incessant and outrageous level of grossness of this 'OUTER-SPACE TENTACULAR-MOUTHED NECRO-BUFFET GORE-FEST' (title unexaggerated). I'm angry about having to stomach that degree of the horrific- which certainly only belongs in dark horror genre titles!
Then, I found none of the intended humor in the side-story of her trying to find a father by scanning EVERY bizarre sort of lifeform for compatibility, while being shockingly picky about family history of medical problems, she didn't care what freakish hybrid non-sensical appearance that the child would have. Also, agents of her caliber know who their captain is- but two veteran writers ignored that for easier exposition to the reader.
Visual: ***
While great as usual, and I do adore his work, his complicity in making art that got to rapidly bothering me, scores him lower here.
May 30, 2018
Trashy, but not really in a bad way. Agent whateverhernameisjustcheckthoseboobs has to work out what's hindering the progress of some spaceship she's on from somewhere to somewhere else, and finds more danger than she expected – and a lot more lust. Artwork is varying, to say the least – but when we get to see her face as opposed to those boobs she proves to be attractive and a character to like, as opposed to the usual hot-shot-with-tits. It didn't exactly make me laugh (or not until she made someone quadriplegic), but the hormonal feel to the story certainly exceeded the expectation I had of something junky and teenaged, and a bit of inappropriate inter-species sex is not completely unwelcome in sci-fi. I've read some right cack from the Trondheim stable, but this was more than acceptable.
September 14, 2018
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.
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.
January 28, 2018
Plutôt obscure comme univers, mais pourtant, ça tient bien la route. Tout au long de cette aventure, l'on ne cesse d'être titillé entre le côté « romantique » du récit (voire souvent sexuel) et les nombreux détails macabres . C'est plutôt intriguant ce qui arrive à ce navire spatial, mais l'on est plutôt tenté par le côté « absurde, mais dangereux » de la chose. Les détails évoquent rapidement les comics américains tout en restant tout de même lumineux, bien contrasté et à l'occasion réaliste. Bien hâte de lire la suite!
September 16, 2017
A sexy agent of a space ship on an unknown mission run by a bizarre looking floating thing and a little hairy fat man searches for a mate and fights off alien engineers who eat the dead in a space necropolis full of floating desiccated aliens and space maggots...
Some major plot holes, various unexplained and bizarre plot points and some lazy art still leave this interesting enough to kind of want to read, and see, the next one.
Not for the squeamish.
3.33333 Stars
Some major plot holes, various unexplained and bizarre plot points and some lazy art still leave this interesting enough to kind of want to read, and see, the next one.
Not for the squeamish.
3.33333 Stars
September 3, 2018
I really enjoyed this! It was a super quick, simple read but was interesting and made me want to read more. I'll be on the lookout for volume two!
I received this for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I received this for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
December 27, 2018
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). (e-galley from NetGalley)
February 20, 2021
That was a lot of fun! Goofy, pulpy scifi from a French perspective with a built-in plot device to let them spin out series arcs with different characters and plots whenever and however they want.
This volume's art was slightly rough and energetic, and I liked that.
This volume's art was slightly rough and energetic, and I liked that.
April 11, 2025
no do not read its one joke and heavy metal if your a guy you might find gitl spend entire book geting hit on because she wants a baby whilr fighting human eating aliens a must read tthis is for you.
January 7, 2018
divertissant et amusant , part dans un direction un peu inattendue ,un assez beau visuel
August 10, 2018
Beau travail du dessinateur pour nous plongés dans cet univers avec toutes ces différentes créatures. L'histoire est intéressante. Donne envie de lire la suite.
September 20, 2018
Divertida aventura espacial con un nivel gráfico espectacular.
February 4, 2020
The interior artwork isn't as sexy as the covers suggest. The story has some funny moments, but is otherwise a pretty boring scifi parody with several gratuitous sexual references that don't add anything to the plot. I have yet to find quality French comics. I must not be looking in the right place.
Yoko Keren is a security agent on the ship Infinity 8 who in her free time is looking for a healthy specimen to have babies with. She soon receives the mission to investigate a system-wide anomaly that looks like a garbage dump for ships, chunks of planets and other junk. The Kornaliens on the ship get agitated from their addiction - eating dead and decomposing things. They take control of the airlocks and escape the ship. After eating several dead things, they get it in their heads to destroy the Infinity 8 to kill the almost 1 billion beings aboard and feed their addiction. Yoko is joined in her mission by the recently love-struck Kornalien named Sagoss.
Yoko Keren is a security agent on the ship Infinity 8 who in her free time is looking for a healthy specimen to have babies with. She soon receives the mission to investigate a system-wide anomaly that looks like a garbage dump for ships, chunks of planets and other junk. The Kornaliens on the ship get agitated from their addiction - eating dead and decomposing things. They take control of the airlocks and escape the ship. After eating several dead things, they get it in their heads to destroy the Infinity 8 to kill the almost 1 billion beings aboard and feed their addiction. Yoko is joined in her mission by the recently love-struck Kornalien named Sagoss.
April 11, 2020
Fresco, divertido e ingenioso.
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