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.