The Infinite Vacation #3

Christian Ward's cover for issue #3 of Nick Spencer and Ward's The Infinite Vacation is a genuinely unsettling piece of work — a pink-suited, round-spectacled figure grins and gestures at the top of the image while, reflected below him like a dark mirror, what appears to be a bloodied, inverted version of the same man drips with red. The duality is immediate and visceral, suggesting a multiverse premise where alternate selves are anything but safe. This 2011 Image series continues to make a strong visual case for itself as one of the more ambitious science-fiction comics of its era.