Comic penman Robert Kirkman ’s most famous for pen The Walking Dead , and now he ’s teaming up with X - Force promulgator Rob Liefeld for The Infinite , a time - hop scifi comic . Kirkman latterly told io9 about craft this story of two Roberts .
You ’ve work on several genres throughout your comic career : repugnance with The Walking Dead , superheroics with Invincible , and so on . Why a clip - travel science fable tale with The Infinite ?
It ’s something I have n’t really done , and it always interested me . Science fiction is fun , and there ’s a lot of clock time travel stories out there with so many different element . It ’s gotten to the point where citizenry think there are time travel rules , like “ Oh , you ca n’t encounter your younger ego ! ” or “ Oh , if you change this timeline , that [ other one ] becomes an alternate property ! ” We do n’t really know if that ’s the case , so I really want to come in and take a impertinent look at time locomotion , change the rules a bit , and have sport with the dissimilar way it could work .
Are you able to let on some of the mechanics of time travelling in The Infinite ?
The premise is that Bowen , a freedom fighter from the time to come , goes back in time to come across up with his 19 - year - old ego . They ’re together shaking hands , and [ the younger Bowen ] is learn things about his succeeding self . We ’re taking the road in which there is one timeline — there ’s no multiverse , no divagation . The baddie is coming back in clock time to rewrite the hereafter , and Bowen is trying to stop him .
The book begins in a futurist scenario in which the villain has gain ground . What sort of storytelling opportunities did that open up for you ?
It ’s extremely complicated because I have to know where certain effect begin and terminate . For example , there ’s a view in the second issue where Bowen travel to another time — you do n’t see where he goes or what he does , but he comes back and he ’s been changed . You ’re not going to recover out what he ’s done until the end of the series . So there ’s a lot of thing like that — thing will bechance and you wo n’t understand it until two or three issue . It ’s the most superimposed and well - believe story I ’ve ever run on . I ’ve done a frightful amount of interpretation and chart . It ’s been a peck of play .
How did Rob Liefeld planetary house on as illustrator ?
I ’ve been protagonist with Rob for a good long time . He hired to do some study for him very betimes in my career , so I like to say that Rob kept me from being unemployed for a while . But more so than that , I bought Youngblood , New Mutants , and X - Force when they amount out . I ’ve been a fan of Rob Liefeld for many years , and I jumped at the prospect to work with him . He called me up one day and said , “ I ’ve got an opening in my schedule if you desire to do something with me . ” We set about verbalize about unlike Lord - owned ideas and eventually come up with The Infinite together .
How long do you envision The Infinite running ?
It ’s an ongoing monthly series , but we in spades have an end in judgment . It is n’t something like The Walking Dead which could go to publish 300 in 40 geezerhood . To order this story with all of the dissimilar timelines , I had to have the end in judgment before writing the first issue . I know how it ends but not the exact issue . Hopefully we ’ll get a few good years out of this .
If you could go back in time and talk to a 19 - class - old Robert Kirkman , what would you severalize him ?
People expect that they ’ll get along with their younger self . I disagree with that . One of the most fun things about save Bowen interacting with his younger ego is that the younger Bowen is inexperienced , talky , full of judgment , and completely annoying to the older Bowen . If I had to drop any meter with my 19 - class - old self , I ’d tell him to terminate being such an asshole . The Bowens are work together , but they ’re not getting along too well .
The Infinite is part of your new Skybound imprint for Image . Are we going to see any bad Skybound announcements coming out of Comic - Con ?
We ’ll probably be denote several original Skybound title that are n’t go to be by me , and I might have something of my own that I might be denote .
Finally , let ’s cabbage in a Walking Dead inquiry . You ’ve claver the set recently — how ’s it looking ?
It was great to get back on set and see all the actors wearing the same dress and driving the same cars — it was as if they had been filming when I was last there in September , making the show the whole clip without me . So far , the second season is look great .
Any last shout - outs you ’d like to give ?
If you sleep with The Walking Dead , give The Infinite a shot . It ’s just like The Walking Dead , only instead of zombie , it does n’t have zombies .
The Infinite#1hits stands August 3 .
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