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INFINITE VACATION #1
WELCOME TO THE INFINITE VACATION, WHERE CHANGING YOUR LIFE IS ALWAYS JUST A CLICK AWAY!
Mark lives in a world where alternate realities are up for sale, and buying and trading your way through unlimited variations of yourself is as commonplace as checking your email or updating your status. But when other “hims” start dying suddenly and he meets a mysterious girl who wants nothing to do with “life-changing,” he’ll learn the truth about the universe he stumbles through, and what happens when your vacation turns on you.
FROM THE WRITER OF THE HIT SERIES MORNING GLORIES AND THE ARTIST OF OLYMPUS!
AN EPIC HIGH CONCEPT SCI-FI LOVE STORY PERFECT FOR FANS OF ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, AND INCEPTION.
story NICK SPENCERart & Cover CHRISTIAN WARD
Price: $3.50
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 2.7%
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A lot of talk about this being the next Morning Glories. We’ll see. I am picking it up.
I’m trying it for sure! Love the cover!
I know nothing about this other than the fact that Spencer is writing it. That’s enough; oh and the fact that it’s compared to (500) days of summer, which is awesome. This feels like a POTW.
Never heard pf ot but sounds awesome! Plus I was a big fan of the art in Olympus.
Trade!
Nick Spencer is killing it lately. I’m all over it. Besides, it’s been a resolution this year to buy at least one non-DC/Marvel book a month. Congrats, Infinite Vacation!
The premise sounds interesting and I dig the art.
I’m sort of bored of the tilted logo trend though.
$3.50? seems like an odd price.
@ghos7man It’s image’s standard price isn’t it?
@JNewcomb It varries.
Looking forward to this though. Spencer’s timing on the comic scene has been PERFECT! I’m also in the camp where I’d probably grab anything with his name on it atm.
I’m in for this one.
It took me a while to decide to buy this. I really liked the premise and Nick Spencer is great, I just didn’t want another monthly book. But screw money dammit! I loves me some comics!
I forgot all about Olympus, but that book definitely had some sweet art.
(500) days of summer. Sucked.
Inception. Fell asleep in the theater.
Eternal Sunshine. Greatest RomCom in the history of cinema.
I’ve been waiting for another book from Christian Ward ever since Olympus ended. I was kind of disappointed with Nick Spencer on Shuddertown, but i do plan on reading some more of his stuff in TPB. I’ll pick this up in the meantime and see if it ‘wow’s me. It seems to be right up my ally.
I’m definitely picking this up. I love morning glories. But that last paragragh in the solicit makes me roll my eyes a little. That’s some claim to live up to.
Let’s just hope that last paragraph in the solicit isn’t a nod to Mark Millar.
@Nathan – lol, I was going to say it was bordering on sounding like Mark Millar!
Damn looks good. Can someone send me a Heads up when this hits Trade.. cause i’m totally going to forget. thanks
@MrPopular It should show up in the comic list here on the site when it ships in trade.
Looking foward to this
Should be a trippy ride.
I am very tempted by this. Sounds like it could be a ton of fun. If only my budget wasn’t so tight. Might wait for the trade.
Can’t wait!!! Spencer is quickly becoming one of my fave comic writers working today. Is this an ongoing or mini?
It’s a mini. And there’s a really cool preview on the Image site. Looks like another great story from Spencer.
Dang… This didn’t make it across the Atlantic so I’ll have to wait for next week…
I think I’m trade waiting this, but looks awesome. (We’ll see if I’m feeling impulsive in the store this afternoon.)
Can’t make it to the shop to pick this up till after work—like all image #1s of late, I expect this will be sold out with a big delay on reprint (ie–I’ll probably end up trade waiting on this. Image really needs to boost the print numbers on their highly anticipated #1 issues!!!!)
This is one of the weirdest titles I have read in recent memory. Some of the ideas here are inspired, but the writing is a bit lackluster and the entire issue focuses on world-building. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the solicit for the issue basically tells you everything that happens in the book.
The art was another really weird part. The psychedelic coloring is crazy good looking and the pencils are great for the most part. However, there’s a random 4 page photo sequence. Not photo-traced, but actual photos in the middle of it that really jolts you out of the story. I know some people will love it for its novelty and daring to be different, but it’s just an exposition scene to explain how the Infinite Vacation works.
Overall I’d give it a 3 out of 5. Mainly for the awesome psychedelic art and intriguing premise, but Spencer is going to have to step up his writing as I feel nothing but apathy for the main character atm.
Actually the photo sequence works for me because it’s an actual ad for the product that the story is about.
This is a strong start.
Loved this comic. I thought that it was really well written by Spencer because he made the whole concept easily understandable, when it could just have easily been a total mess of confusion trying to figure it out. And now that he’s done that, we have the rest of the series to focus on the main character. I loved the photo sequence as well. It really felt like an infomercial kind of thing for Infinite Vacation, and I thought it was prefectly placed. It was great for this book I think.
@ThePunisherMAX You’re enthusiasm is infectious and warranted. 🙂
I’m just getting into reading Spencer’s work now. I finished EXISTENCE 2.0 / 3.0, and I have a ton of his other work sitting in my shelf. Prolific = Nick Spencer.
Interesting first issue and I’m in for more. I did feel a bit pandered to – the concept wasn’t that heady that needed as much world-building as it did. The writing varies from very strong (The “ad copy” was fantastic) to banal. I enjoyed the art and design elements the most it felt the most novel. But the main stumbling point I had was that it feels a bit similar to Daytripper to me and it draws heavily on content from its inspiring works (something I dinged Spencer for on Morning Glories) that it gets distracting. Overall, I very good read, interesting ideas present well enough that I cared. The only other gripe I had was that this was the 5th book this week that featured an iPad/Phone as a major plot point and it just got kind of annoying. (Not just an appearance of one, but the facilitation of the plot occurs through the use of one!)
I really didn’t like Morning Glories, the concept wasn’t that novel and the writing was flat. However, this was amazing. Perhaps it is just the art, but I’m hooked. The premise has buckets of potential too, can’t wait to see where this Ramona Flowers esque character is going.
Just as I thought my pull list was getting leaner, this book blew me away. Count me in for the whole series!
Wow, Wards art is fantastic…interesting story too.