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There is a Choose Your Own Adventure book/comic called Meanwhile that blew my mind as a kid with a similar concept. If you chose to eat chocolate ice cream (the first choice), eventually you met a professor who built a machine to guarantee a coin flip will come up heads. He rigged a machine to destroy the universe if the coin is tails, so existing after pushing the button means your coin must necessarily have landed on heads. The book gets even trippier after that, but that’s what stuck with me the longest. It’s a pretty solid read in the YA section, and a basic but solid introduction to quantum mechanics.
Meanwhile (2010, Jason Shiga)
Shiga is an interesting dude. Some of his other works (FLEEP, Demon) are better known because they’ve been available online. That’s unlikely to happen with Meanwhile, and I think it would lose the charm if it did. This book is the ultimate choose-your-own adventure comic. Starting with which flavor of ice cream to get, you might choose your way into time travel, doomsday bombs, and moral quandaries. There are literally thousands of possibilities in these intricately designed (yet crudely drawn) pages. What I like best is that there’s a plot element which makes the choosing mechanic perfectly justified.
I adore everything Shiga has ever done and treasure my copy of Meanwhile.
That said I just wanted to jump in and warn anyone squeamish that you aren't kidding, DEMON is REALLY dark and does not shy away from extremes. I recommend it for people like me who gobble down dark stuff if it's the right flavor (e.g., I binge every season of Black Mirror as soon as it comes out.)
Sorry I didn’t spot those before - missed Absolute TM because of the glare, the others I just wasn’t looking hard enough. Do I see you only have Vol 1 of Animal Man? 2 and 3 are also good, they complete the Morrison run and the way he signed off is very worth reading.
Your tastes seem pretty wide, so (assuming I’m just not overlooking it), check out Jason Shiga’s stuff. Deceptively simple art, mind-frack stories. Start with Meanwhile...
The concept is certainly interesting, especially the gamification. That aspect might be enough to set it apart from Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. which, for my money, is the gold standard for this type of book.
I also notice that these are translations from the French, which is a good sign. Has anyone read the originals? Do you have any insight into how well they work in practice?
Is it Meanwhile? https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DJ2B2663404C0ZXWN7FE
There is also a huge catalog of Choose your own Adventure books, and there is also Goosebumps.
http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
this is a funny choose-your-own-adventure comic. sometimes the reader can end up "losing" and the reader's ability to naturally restart their adventure in the comic is justified as destroying parallel universes, and switching to extant universes.
i think a version of it can be found online.
Ruskin, I highly recommend you check out Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237/ It's a choose-your-own-adventure comic book that features time travel. :)
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