The Infinite Loop

Pierrick Colinet and Elsa Charretier's The Infinite Loop began through IDW in 2015. Its future employs people to repair disruptions in time, but a relationship with an anomaly challenges the premise that everything unusual must be removed.

The story uses its central romance to test the institution's rules. A seemingly technical job becomes a choice about whose existence is considered legitimate.

The comic turns time-travel cleanup into a social metaphor without losing its science-fiction stakes. It asks what a system protects when it calls someone an aberration.

Its queer romance is central to that question. The speculative mechanism gives emotional form to the pressure to erase difference.

Temporal anomalies threaten a managed timeline, yet the process of correcting them depends on moral judgment. The future's order is neither neutral nor automatic.

The premise asks whether preserving one version of history can justify destroying lives that fall outside it.

Charretier's clean, expressive figures keep the romance readable amid temporal shifts. Bright graphic design helps distinguish the world from a more mechanical time-travel thriller.

The art makes an abstract concept personal: an anomaly can be seen as a person before it is seen as a problem.