LOOP

“The Infinite Loop” #1 sets up for quite a cool series to come — it just takes a while to get there. After a slick, breezy introduction to Teddy, her coworker Ulysses and their work managing time anomalies, the issue finally opens up its central conflict in the last two pages. Though Elsa Charretier’s artwork is lovely and Pierrick Colinet’s dialogue moves swiftly and believably, readers would be forgiven for feeling that the first issue of “The Infinite Loop” reads a bit generically. Luckily, there’s plenty of promise for the series to come, and the artwork should have any fans of fast-moving science fiction excited. Charretier’s layouts are fast-paced and inventive, so that even a long car drive or chat in a diner feels dynamic. She hops perspectives to create motion where there isn’t any, and her choice of details often surprised and intrigued me. Teddy and Ulysses don’t have particularly inventive character designs but, aside from a few stilted poses for Teddy, they both move ef