The first printing of The Infinite #1 has sold out.
Say what you will about Rob Liefeld, but regardless of how you feel about the man, you cannot deny that when he puts pencil to paper, fans pull out their wallets. Case in point, The Infinite #1, the Image book that he’s working on with Robert Kirkman, has sold out after one week of hitting comic shop shelves and a second printing has already been scheduled. The early success of The Infinite can probably be attributed to a couple of things; Kirkman’s reputation as one of the industries top scribes and Liefeld drawing the types of characters that he does best (big shoulder pads, big guns, etc) probably being chief among them.
And, for those that haven’t yet picked up a copy of The Infinite, what is this comic all about? The Infinite is a time-traveling bad guy that has used his technology to conquer mankind. Bowen, a soldier from the future, manages to send himself back in time, to team up with his past self and try and stop The Infinite from becoming the bane of humanity. If you’re thinking that this sounds a lot like the stuff that Liefeld used to do on X-Force, you are absolutely correct. And that is exactly what writer Robert Kirkman wanted when he agreed to work on this project with Liefeld. To quote from an article appearing in USA Today…
“And when they started hatching the idea for The Infinite last fall, Kirkman knew exactly what he wanted from Liefeld.
“He said, ‘I want the X Force/Youngblood Rob Liefeld, OK? That’s what I want!’ ” Liefeld recalls. “I said, ‘I’ll give it to you!’ And trust me, after drawing Deadpool for a year, you actually go, ‘Do I remember how to draw a face again? I’ve drawn a guy in a mask for a year!’
The USA Today article, written by Brian Truitt, goes on to elaborate on The Infinite Plot…
“While Liefeld is the man drawing all the sci-fi action, Kirkman is able to explore his own take on the time-space continuum and a bad guy readers aren’t expecting.
“Everyone who does a time-travel story, it’s always this brilliant scientist who comes up with time travel or builds some kind of device or comes up with some kind of thing that makes it work,” Kirkman explains. “What if that guy was just this really evil guy, and how easy would it be for him to go back in time and take over? The Infinite comes from further in the future and takes over.
“That story is done and we don’t even see that. What our book focuses on is Bowen going back in time to set things in motion to prevent that from happening and encountering the Infinite in our time.”
For my part, I haven’t gotten a chance to pick up this book, yet. Not because I didn’t plan on it (I actually wanted to), but because my schedule didn’t allow a trip to the local comic shop this week. And now that the first printing has sold out, I’m not sure a copy will be waiting for me when I do get there at the end of the week. At any rate, while critics can probably come up with a laundry list of reasons as to why this book is so horrible, I do plan on picking up each and every issue of the mini-series. And, based on sales of the first issue of The Infinite, I’d say quite a few other people have the same thing in mind. The second printing of The Infinite #1 is set to ship on August 31st.
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