The Infinite Loop

The Infinite Loop #1-6

by Pierrick Colinet, Elsa Charretier (Artist)

A science-fiction series that asks the age-old question, "What would you risk for a chance at true love?" Meet Teddy, a young woman who lives in a faraway future where time traveling is a common practice and her job is to maintain the status quo by correcting time paradoxes. But when she meets Ano, "a time paradox" and the girl of her dreams, Teddy must decide between fixing the time stream or the love of her life, both of which have unique consequences.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, LGBT, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Queer, Romance

152 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 3, 2015

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first half of this is great. Unfortunately at a certain point it just devolves into time travel / paradox nonsense and I no longer had any idea what was happening. Teddy is part of a future group that goes back in time to fix anomalies until she meets an anomaly she falls in love with named Ano. The two go on the run to keep Ano from being eliminated. Up to that point, the book had something of a Adjustment Bureau feel to it. Then Teddy started creating all of these time anomalies herself, but it wasn't very clear what was going on. There's also a half-hearted thread through the book about intolerance of same sex couples that's never really explained. Maybe something was lost in translation as this was originally a French kickstarter comic. Elsa Charretier's art is very good. It has a Batman: The Animated Series vibe to it.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Teddy is a time-traveller, one of a small group tasked with suppressing temporal anomalies introduced by "forgers". Even though she's quite young she's a veteran in the group at four years of activity. And then she encounters a human-shaped anomaly, and even though love is one of the things that have been done away with in her home time, she immediately has a strong reaction to the person she's meant to "suppress". From there that sets Teddy against her own organization, which we find lots more about, as well as the forgers and what's going on with time.

The infinite loop of the title refers to the cycle of violence and othering that seems to be inherent in every human society, of which Teddy's relationship with Ano (the human-shaped anomaly) is symbolic. The graphic novel explores the reactions to the infinite loop through visiting moments in history that echo with the them like the Stonewall Riots and important voices like Harvey Milk and Malcolm X. This is very strongly message fiction and as such works well and is highlighted by some clever story ideas as well as gorgeous art. At times the message elements go a bit over-the-top, but that's something you can do when the overall work is just so beautifully rendered.

[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

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The best thing I can say about The Infinite Loop is that the artwork is quite lovely - very "Batman The Animated Series" feel to it (I kept waiting for the main character to don a Batgirl costume). But honestly, the plot was so heavy handed as to be plodding, dialogue disingenuous, and the story so unoriginally original as to be baffling. Every page is drawn/written not to further the story so much as slap you in the face with a MESSAGE.

Story: uh, time travel. Fight against discrimination and hatred. A T-Rex. Defying 'the man'. Don't do what's expected. 70 Chevy Camaro named Beatrix.

Honestly, the messages of the book were so pedantic (how many ways can a writer shout the same 'feel good' message? Find out here!) as to be the only thing I remember or could see - and about half way through I began skimming to see if The Infinite Loop would go anywhere interesting. It became apparent about half way through that the messages WERE the story and anything else (T-Rex, girls snogging, time travel) were thrown in as decoration. Admittedly, I'm one of those people who feel that messages are best delivered in a subtle way that enhances, rather than completely derails, a story. There's a lot of superflous material here to pad out the pages between the messages and a coherent story still fails to materialize.

Add in the cliches (e.g., our main character saying that love is useless so we have a smoking gun for the romance on the next page) and it became somewhat numbing after awhile. Lots of kinetic energy on the pages, yes - frantic but not necessarily engaging.

I really did like the artwork, though. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

[Lost Planet Airman · Rating 3 out of 5]

What I like about this book:
A strong, smart female lead
Strong smart red-head highly competent female lead a la Robert A. Heinlein (only better)
A supportive, smart sidekick
A code of tolerance
Time travel, ray guns, dinosaurs
Beautiful art
Vibrant colors

What I did NOT like about this book:
Dialogue was often very confusing, and made the characters into caricatures.
Hand-waving manipulation of time travel and reality adjustment.
Unexplained time loops and unexplained multiple "timelines".
And just WHAT is an "anomaly", anyway, and why are all of them so "clearly" bad?
Absurd character motivations
Existentialism
"spacetimecontinuum reboot"
Gratuitous nudity and sexuality. (about 10% WAS necessary to plot & character development)
Characters with unlimited potential for growth vs. characters with no potential
Hatred portrayed as a life choice but love as destiny
Extraordinary focus on intolerance of sexual intolerance
Lack of focus, or lip-service only, on racial/class/national/other intolerances

It's just so frustrating that this comic collection has a great message that gets lost as it tries to be too much of one thing, with not enough balance or cohesiveness behind it. IM(N)HO

[thi · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5
- I got lost really fast BUT they were cute

[Shan( Shans_Shelves) 💜]

This was weird...

[Camille Hallot · Rating 5 out of 5]

j'ai beaucoup aimé ! j'aimerais trop lire la suite !
voyage dans le temps, homosexualité, liberté, beaucoup de sujets très intéressants sont abordés!

[Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

So I read the description for this book (English version, btw) on Netgalley, and I'm thinking time-traveling, anomaly-fixing, lesbian adventures. Right?

Wrong.

It starts off okay and the art is great, I enjoy the style of it.

Teddy shows up and finds not the usual anomaly of a lamp, a Roman chair, a T-Rex, or something of that nature. No, this time she finds a random hot chick with purple hair.

Did she come from anywhere? Who cares about that question. Let's just run away together, because I have a feeling she won't want to wear a shirt, like, ever.

(Which, isn't the issue either, though there's a distinct lack of story in it.)

I mean on the basis of:
No conversation.
No knowledge.
No nothing about this anomaly who seemingly has no past either.
No legit thought process whatsoever. (Apart from the voices in her head who went off on various tangents that I feel did not translate well from the original language of French.)

She runs off with this anomaly (HAVING IT BEEN PREVIOUSLY EXPLAINED TO US) knowing that this could basically destroy the world.

The world of no night. No love. No hate. (Though seriously there seems to be an awful lot of it anyway, because the guys who come after them aren't really on an even keel, you know?)

Oh and she thinks love is a bunch of hooey.

But is--after one time seeing her shirtless, holding hands, and sleeping side by side--ready to go all, "DADDY I LOVE HER!" to her bosses and basically the world, because who cares if it implodes THIS IS LOVE.

Is it? You saw her boobs. Once. Yeah they were nice, but she doesn't have a name or a past or anything other than something to attract you physically.

It's supposed to be this great love affair, but honestly? The whole thing felt extremely forced and disingenuous.

Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 dealt with similar issues (at least in the way others see 'Ano' the anomaly as an 'it' not a human.) and it does them better without this weirdly repetitive text popping up everywhere and dialogue that mostly falls flat and feels robotic (again, potentially an issue in translation).

I wanted to see maybe a little bit of a slow burn instead of Ano basically seeming like a sexbot.

I mean if you're going to get people KILLED for helping you out in hiding a girl, maybe have actual deeper feelings for her than hey I liked looking at her boobs that one time. Oh, and have them on the pages so the readers can know they're there.

Also the best friend/partner character was terrible. I don't care who was pushing what buttons and also I don't get how NONE OF IT WAS REALLY HIM. Like it felt like some surreal abusive bullshit where he's all GRRRRR ARRRRGGGHHH and then turn around like, ohhhhh but that wasn't meeeeee.

Guess I'm going to look elsewhere for bad-ass, dinosaur-fighting, time-traveling lesbians.

I *did* like the random flow charts that showed up where you could follow both/various thought processes, etc and see where choices would lead. That was a cute addition.

1.5 which boosts to two mostly for the art and the flowcharts.

[Reggie_Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL I'VE READ THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!! A time travel story starring a lesbian who will learn that when you turn your back on one group's suffering, there will eventually be no one left to protect you from your own. It's a sci-fi, graphic novel interpretation of Martin Niemöller's "First They Came" poem. I found myself falling in love with the main characters, crying with them, screaming their rally cry, I felt it all. So not only was I beyond captivated by the theme and characters, but the artwork was DIVINE. Multiple times I found myself stopped in awe. Issue after issue I discovered ideas for tattoos, wanting the beauty on the page imprinted on me. Everything was just marvelous. Bought the volume the moment I finished reading my copy from netgalley, and I'm sitting on pins and needles waiting for the second one to come to the states.

[Artemis Crescent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Time-travelling lesbian social justice warriors. That's what this comic is, in as much of a nutshell as I can make it.

'The Infinite Loop' is one of the most polarizing graphic novels I've ever read. It is massively political and is not subtle about it in the slightest - like nearly every page contains a political statement. And yet, I don't mind. In fact, I think it works to its advantage. A story like this is certainly needed during such difficult times.

Teddy is a time-hopping agent, whose job is to eliminate anomalies in different time periods so the timelines are left undisturbed. But she isn't allowed to alter the past or future, leaving the status quo of the "Infinite Loop" flowing, no matter the horrors and how much humanity keeps fucking up over and over again. Teddy and others like her claim that love is what causes the worst periods in human history, and so she wants nothing to do with romance in her already strange life.

Until she meets Ano, a beautiful human-shaped anomaly/time paradox whom she was sent to erase from existence.

Ano becomes Teddy's reason for being, and her reason to fight back against the Infinite Loop. For everyone, including other anomalies.

And, well, things get really, really weird storywise. Everything else like human love is natural, of course, but the time-travel elements are more multi-layered, paradoxical and "confusing" than 'Inception'. While its message about equality is as in-your-face as ever, in other areas the book requires you to pay attention carefully.

Upon finishing 'The Infinite loop', I slowly realised that, in spite of a few setbacks, I enjoyed the hell out of it. This is what a graphic novel should be like. This is what science fiction should be all about. It contains an important message, is grand and plotted intricately - a feat for a time-travel story - and it's awesomely entertaining. There is nonbinary and genderqueer representation. It contains the female lead fighting a dinosaur! What more could you want?

The characters are dynamic and well-rounded. Teddy develops from a fun yet reserved young woman to an even more fun and passionate and angry political activist with a time watch. Her change does come a little too quickly early on, but she has enough believable doubts and self-esteem issues (she constantly asks herself if she's making the right decision, if she can win her fight, alone or with help) along the way that it isn't so bad. Teddy's competitiveness may prove to be her biggest failing; emotionally she's a ticking time bomb, and she is smart enough to know it, to control it for the greater good.

Ano, the mysterious Asian, anime-ish time anomaly, is Teddy's love at first sight, who the writer and artist mostly rely on to be cute and sexy over an actual personality. The more I think about it, the more I see Ano as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, so her and her romance with Teddy are the weaker parts of the comic. But she does show backbone in helping Teddy to get up and do something for fellow, suffering anomalies. Ano wants to fight injustice as well, and she knows she can't be Teddy's dream and escape forever. So she's not just for eye-candy, and was never really for the male gaze - her sex scenes with Teddy are handled maturely, realistically; making up for how their romance could have used a little more development.

Ulysses, the male sidekick, is Teddy's office Intel partner for when she's on time missions to maintain the Infinite Loop. He starts out nice enough, and is in love with Teddy; he makes a move even though at the beginning she specifically states she wants to remain celibate, and why. But on finding out her illegal relationship with Ano, he reveals just what a scary Nice Guy with male-entitlement issues he is. The comic knows this, and Ulysses knows this, and is ashamed of himself for it, comparing himself to 21st century internet trolls ("neanderthals" as he calls them). He works to better himself, resisting the temptation of a promotion from his higher-up peers who are the embodiment of toxic masculinity. Eventually Ulysses, like a real friend, becomes an ally to Teddy's and Ano's cause. It's such rare development in a male character arc, and it is badass.

Like I said, 'The Infinite Loop' is passionate about its political message. There is research done on all kinds of people who exist: on social justice terms, on groundbreaking historical moments of gender and racial equality, and on tragedies caused by bigotry. These themes are very clearly implemented in order to give weight to the message.

The colourful artwork, similar to the bright animated works of Bruce Timm, flows brilliantly with everything going on. It's easy on the eyes and easy to follow.

But one thing that did bother me about 'The Infinite Loop' is this: with all its talk about activism, believing in change, standing up to injustices everywhere and in all aspects of humanity, allies, white supremacy, toxic masculinity, male-entitlement, that love/compassion isn't weakness, and how wrong it is to dehumanize/marginalize people who are different or "unnatural", and is perfectly aware of how racism works as well...

Whose bright idea was it to make the main antagonist a Black woman?

Tina is Teddy's and Ulysses' boss, who may or may not have invented time-travelling, it's not explained. I mean, maybe her villainy is to show how in the far future we have taken things for granted to the point where even the formerly marginalized can lose sight of what's important, and forget history even as they're a part of it. That power can corrupt absolutely anyone. Tina isn't in the comic much, and her introduction to the reader is of her getting tortured by the white heroine, I'm not joking. For someone who wants to commit genocide in the book's final act, the big boss is rather two-dimensional. Her goons are bigoted, muscly white men; shouldn't a man like them be the main power-hungry villain in a story like this? Especially one who, like Tina, at one point claims to be a friend to the underlings who've been conditioned since childhood to blindly follow orders.

I'd say Tina and Ano are the weakest links in this epic story that otherwise shows so much understanding about equality and how racism and sexism continue on. All part of human nature? Subtext added to go with its theme of history repeating itself no matter what anyone does? What anyone sacrifices? I'm not sure, it's confusing enough, and I welcome anyone who wants to explain these things better to me. Listening and understanding are key, after all.

'The Infinite Loop' - holy crap. With all its flaws, I'd still recommend it to everyone in a heartbeat. Science fiction put to good use, it's a fun and important read: a social justice warrior and decent human being's holy grail. I still don't understand how anyone can be against equality to begin with - it never did anybody any harm, unlike hate, ignorance, fear and greed - and to those who are against it, 'The Infinite Loop' is your no-nonsense, unapologetic teacher.

Nothing's perfect, but then, humanity never was, and probably never will be. The Infinite Loop is strong and forever resisting change.

But we can hope. Every time, hope never dies.

Final Score: 3.5/5

[Isabel ✰ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sooooo...the first half was really cute and good but at some point the time travel went absolutely bonkers insane and I started having trouble following the story. Overall, very fun as long as you don’t think too hard about it.

[The Sapphic Nerd · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got the chance to read some of the single issues as they released but didn't catch the whole run so I was a little confused. I liked what I read enough to buy the trade and I am so glad I did!

Unabashedly political. Empowering, feminist, social justice-heavy. This is a book with a message and it's going to make sure you know it. Frankly, I love that about it. Comics are a medium just like any other, and they should be used to illustrate social inequalities and encourage people to break the status quo for the betterment of society. They don't always have to be that way, but when they are used to tell a story with a distinct sociopolitical message, done right, it makes the medium more mature and relevant. Comics aren't just for kids, and the content should reflect that. The Infinite Loop does exactly that.

It's also an action/adventure sci-fi time-traveling lesbian romance about changing your destiny.

Elsa Charretier's artwork is beautiful. She has a distinct style that's confident and playful, but doesn't detract from the serious or passionate moments. It meshes perfectly with the writing.

Pierrick Colinet writes simply but effectively, and with breathtaking social intelligence. Teddy, Ano, and Ulysses make a well-rounded trio that challenge each other as much as they support each other. Teddy is a badass. What's better is that she's a badass who has moments of weakness. You'll feel for her, for what she's going through, and what she's fighting for.

This is a great read for a more mature audience. One of my favourites.

[Larakaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is so so so SO good! it's like the perfect update of Fahrenheit 451 and brave new world in one big time travel story!

FYI: I made a short video about it (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6S6...

[Cat · Rating 2 out of 5]

this is the most confusing graphic novel I've ever read
full review here: https://catshelf.wordpress.com/2015/1...

[Nadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really fun read for Pride Month, with a great queer narrative, and several instances of the phrase "Pride Up!" which I'm definitely going to start using. Add that to the beautiful and creative artwork, rapid but fully realized world-building, Blake Crouch-like elements of playing with time and space and the theories of multiverse, a cameo by Emmett Till (among others), and conversations about existentialism, and you've got an entertaining ride, with real moral and ethical consequences.

[Rahma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool concept. Intriguing artwork. Fine characters. The only problem is: the time travel concepts are confusing. I mean, what's even a time-space continuum? And how come Ano, for example, keeps appearing out of nowhere? I don't get it... but then again, maybe it's just me.
I'm still going to read the sequel though (we had such an open ending; there has to be a sequel, right?)

Correction: I will read the sequel as soon as it's translated to English 🙈

[Aleya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. I like the message they were trying to send with this book, but it got a little too wibbly wobbly timey wimey. It also bugged me that there was insta-love. That bothered me more than the graphic scenes, although the suddenness of those was related to the insta-love. It was interesting but definitely not my favorite. I think they should have taken their time with this story. It felt too rushed and made it confusing.

[wbforeman]

I thought the basis of the story was interesting of this time travel storyline where these two women fall in love with each other over different time periods and paradoxes. but the laws of the time travel/ Paradox made me lose the thread and I got lost. I do enjoy the pop art style though.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars rounded up to 3 stars because I liked the message and art, which was reminiscent of Darwyn Cooke with a well-chosen pastel color palette.

As far as story goes, I found this good but not great. At the beginning, I was underwhelmed by how generic the story and characters seemed, despite the appealing "time cop" angle, but I started to like it better when the wheels fell off, and things became wibbly wobbley timey wimey. Part of the reason I could cut the title slack after that point was that I realized that the characters of Teddy and Ano are *supposed* to be generic, since they're archetypal. They're representative of all the Romeo and Juliet's, as well as all the civil rights activists, of the past and the future, since human history is stuck in an "infinite loop" of fear turning to oppression.

While I agree with the positive messages about making a positive difference in the world by always choosing to stand against oppression, to not sacrifice what's right for comfort, the telling was extremely heavy-handed, to the point that it felt condescending, even if it was a result of inexpert storytelling rather than an author's patriarchal attitude. There is literally a page with enumerated steps to take the next time there is oppression, sheesh!

P.S. It rubbed me the wrong way that this title has a female-female couple, because it seemed like another case of making it a female-female couple, since it was supposed to be transgressive (although it was supposed to be objectionable because it's a human/non-human romance), so the creator might as well take advantage of the fact that two women make for more visually-appealing art, both clothed and unclothed. I suppose that it shouldn't bother me too much, since there should be equal opportunity for generic same-gender romance add opposite-gender. Shrug.

Thanks to NetGalley for the electronic advanced reader copy.

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 1 out of 5]

'The Infinite Loop' by Pierrick Colinet with art by Elsa Charretier seemed to have elements of a story I should have liked. A strong lead character and time travel as a device. Unfortunately, I felt beat about the head by it's message.

Teddy has a cool job in time travel. Her job is to correct paradoxes in time travel that she finds since she lives in a future where time travel is possible. Somewhere along the way, she may have run into the love of her life. She is cautioned by some of her other alternate selves to not pursue this illicit relationship, but then convinces herself to "pride up" and not let conventional people, like the co-workers who want to track and kill her lover. And that's about all I got out of it.

It's fine to have a message. It's fine to have a platform to tell it in. It's really not so much fun to read such a message if it's so heavy handed that it diverts from the story. I just felt like the story got completely derailed by the author's simple and massively repeated message. Which is too bad, because I liked the strong protagonist and her partner on the job, and I liked the art as well.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Noah Appelbaum · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are so many things I really, really liked about this book. Unfortunately, it just wasn't very good? The art is beautiful, the themes are poignant and relevant, and I love the way time travel is applied to the construction of the narrative. I want to like this book so much. Alas, the plot is a thin excuse for the platform, the dialogue is ham-fisted (I'm still not clear if this is a translation or written in a second language, which might give some reason for that at least), and the metaphors are awkwardly foisted directly into your face. You might like it more than I did if you're not a boring, straight white man.

[Guts Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stop what you're doing and get this comic now. I don't know which is more beautiful, the art or the story. It promotes knowledge as well as fighting for your rights. The media tie ins are icing on the cake. If you are non-binary, LGBTQ, or a friend to those, read this. If you're a closed minded bigot, read this. Open your minds to this amazing story. #BreakTheLoop

It is for mature readers due to explicit content.

Read all 6 issues, but altogether as a volume wasn't an option on Goodreads yet.

[furious · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sweet, sexy time travel romance. I didn't get bogged down in trying to understand the temporal mechanics, which probably helped. If you're the type of reader who needs that shit to all make sense ymmv. I found it to be a cute story with fun art and nice zippy pacing.

[Lo · Rating 4 out of 5]

freedom and girls in love fighting for freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!! and love!!!!!! also they made sartre as a snowman and i think that's beautiful

[luiza · Rating 4 out of 5]

i don't read graphic novels but this one is so fun and the main couple is absolutely adorable!

[celia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh. Wasn't super drawn in by the characters or plot.

[Jaime · Rating 1 out of 5]

content warnings: transphobia, homophobia, image of a black man being hung
representation: main f/f relationship, wlw main character, wlw japanese side character, black side character, hispanic genderqueer side character

This comic is the epitome of something with great potential that ended up falling flat. The only real compliments I can give it are the general ideas and the art, which was good if incredibly average.

The characters weren't aggressively terrible, just really bland. They had no personality, no character traits, nothing. They were just tools used by the writer to push a story along, which is really bad when the story hinges on the relationship between two characters.

The plot was also just fine, if unnecessarily complicated in places. Issue #4 in particular was full of different flashbacks and timelines and it was hard to keep track of. A few of the twists were good, but the rest was so underwhelming that they didn't have much impact.

This comic suffers from serious pacing issues. There's almost an entire issue dedicated to the relationship between Teddy and Ano which, fine, the comic is about their love, whatever. The only problem is that their relationship happens so fast. Literally, they meet, Teddy instantly falls in love, they have sex almost immediately, and then we get a montage of their domestic life for a year. And then the climax feels so rushed that I feel like there should have been at least two or three more issues.

Quick side-note, while I enjoy sex scenes as much as the next depraved individual, the one in this felt so out of place. It happens randomly, and then there is never another one. The rest are all fade to black, which makes me wonder why we needed a graphic scene in the first place.

Finally, and easily the worst thing about this book, the dialogue. All of it is clunky and unnatural, the characters never speak how real humans would. And it was so long. Majority of the time whenever a character spoke, it would be a lengthy few sentences, which is fine in most media types, except for comics. Comics either need quick dialogue or long dialogue stretched out over multiple panels, otherwise it feels like a chore to get through. There's also a lot of info-dumps throughout the comic which detracted from the flow of it.

This book also got really preachy towards the end, and this is coming from someone who's decided to reclaim SJW. There are multiple pages of famous activists (MLK, Harvey Milk, Susan B Anthony, Malcolm X) giving speeches (again with the long paragraphs) and while it was probably meant to be inspirational it came off more as the writer trying to cram as much activism down the readers throat as possible. This isn't helped by the fact that some of the characters paragraphs of dialogue are just them talking about oppression. To reiterate: an SJW is telling you that this comic is too preachy, that's how bad it is.

This comic had so much potential, but unfortunately I don't even feel like I can recommend it.

[Elizabeth Bridges · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you skim the reviews here, you'll notice that a lot of them talk about how the first half is good, but after the midpoint it just gets messy, or confusing, or unfocused. I pretty much agree with this, except that I found myself let down even by the first half. There was disappointingly little build-up beyond what you could pretty much extrapolate was going to happen from reading the synopsis/elevator pitch, and the first few pages. The characters are all fairly flat without much room to develop beyond what strictly is needed to develop the plot. Even the main character, Teddy, who we see some of the backstory and life of... it really all just tells us that she's a bit of a misfit and an undercurrent of rebelliousness. ...Which, considering the plot is about rebellion against homogeneity for outcasts... is kind of an expected trait for your protagonist.

As others have mentioned, the art is nice, but it's more just in overall effect. Most individual panels or pages are fairly unremarkable, with only the occasional visual flair like the time glitch boxes and the flowcharts to really make it stand out in any way.

Honestly, if you really want something like this, but don't mind getting a little darker/violent, I'd say Welcome Back by Christopher Sebela has a fairly similar premise: lesbian protagonists, action-romance, love across lines and in spite of a hostile society... pretty much just swap out the time travel for centuries of reincarnation (though that reincarnation is primarily backstory, with only a couple of time periods appearing outside of montage.

[Cale · Rating 4 out of 5]

It takes a strong story to survive an entire issue that is practically incomprehensible without collapsing under its own weight. The relationship between Teddy and Ano does that, as a person responsible for correcting anachronisms falls for one of them and basically has to rewrite the world to save her love.
It sounds a little trite, but the page-to-page story here is well done and the art is fascinating - the style and color work is vibrant and worth a visit even if you skip the story (content warning, though, there is a lot of nudity). The relationship built between Teddy and Ano is a strong throughline, and when the story ramps up its chronal insanity, it serves to carry the reader through fourth issue, which probably requires multiple re-reads to figure out what exactly is going on. But the story builds off shattered puzzle of an issue to a fairly epic conclusion that FEELS right, even if you can't think your way through the logic of it. Usually a story that is this disjointed would kick me out of it, but there's something here that kept me invested to the last page, and shared that feeling of a story that is unstoppable.
If you're able to ride the bucking bronco of a story through to its conclusion, I think you'll find yourself rewarded. Recommended.

[Stoffia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Infinite Loop est une BD charmante, érotique par moment, racontant une histoire d'amour sous fond de voyage dans le temps. Les deux créateurs sont français, mais ça a d'abord été publié en anglais (je l'ai lu en anglais, c'était plus facile à trouver).

D'abord : L'histoire et le dessin partent dans tous les sens et certaines scènes sont plutôt psychédéliques. On ne prend pas vraiment la peine d'instaurer des règles du voyage dans le temps cohérentes. Tout cela est voulu et clair dès le début. C'est donc avant tout une histoire d'amour interdit; le reste est un prétexte.

On y suit donc Ted, une femme d'un futur lointain sont le travail est d'éliminer les anomalies temporelles (qui peuvent être des objets, des dinosaures ou peuvent carrément ressembler à un bug dans ma matrice). Tout cela jusqu'au jours ou l'une des anomalies se retrouve à être une femme magnifique, fan de Sartre et à la libido dévorante. Les deux s'enfuient, au risque de causer l'apocalypse, et sont recherchés par toute l'agence temporelle.

Plus la toile du temps se déchire, plus la BD devient éclatée, avec une ligne du temps complexe et des versions alternatives des personnages et évènements qui se présentent.

Comme le dit la philosophe : "Gays toutes les timelines, unissez-vous!"