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Written by Steve Thompson
Art by Gonzalo Ruggieri
Told over the course of four chapters, Ill Vacation follows protagonists Bob and Mary, two young soldiers who want to help their country and its war effort. When they volunteer to take an experimental drug and are left behind to defend an island in the Pacific, things take a terrible turn. Instead of negating their fears, it turns their past trauma and nightmares into reality. Now, strange lights appear in a blood-red sky, a giant eye floats in the air and unearthly creatures emerge from the sea to haunt them inside an ever-growing maelstrom of terror. Can they survive?
Ruggieri deftly illustrates the fear, confusion, and unease of the protagonists and creates an atmospheric and dreamlike setting that is palpable throughout the story. As we learn of the personal tragedies affecting Mary and Bob, what we see is through their eyes—sometimes it is what’s really there and sometimes it’s an illusion.
Ill Vacation is a haunting, hallucinatory, and mind-bending trip into the effects of war and peace.
