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INFINITY INC. #6

The Influencing Machines Of Metropolis, Part 1

April 2008

Written by Peter Milligan

Pencils by Matt Camp

Inks by Matt Camp

Cover by Max Fiumara

Synopsis

At the Infinity, Inc. headquarters, Lucia wants to know if she can stay with the team.  In Metropolis, a woman watching tv decides to kill her daughter’s boyfriend.  Batman and Superman watch over the crime scene and discuss a recent spat of murders similar to the current one.  Meanwhile, Erik is watching tv when he gets the urge to attack Gerome.  Lucia runs away.  At the New Oaks Psychiatric Center, Doctor Trask learns that one of the patients has escaped.  He then decides to remove the tvs from every room.  John Henry Irons visits Infinity Inc. to let the team know he is trying to track down everyone involved in the Everyman Project.  Natasha goes to visit Lucia and gets attacked by her father.  Meanwhile, Erik and Gerome are attacked by zombies as they drive to New Oaks.  When they get there, they learn the escaped patient had been part of the Everyman Project and has the ability to influence machines such as tvs to influence people.  Elsewhere, the escaped patient adds to his growing collection of tvs. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

The good news is that the first page includes a roll call of the main characters of the book, hopefully giving readers (new or otherwise) to finally get a grip on who these people are. The bad news is that I still don’t know who these characters are.  The problem is that the writing does a poor job of conveying anything of interest about these characters.  The biggest problem I have is with Lucia, a woman who is portrayed as a cutter, but exactly why she bleeds from her arms is never explained fully; it just kinda appears.  I suppose you can argue that the scene with Natasha and Lucia’s father helps, but it comes way too late to make her earlier appearances feel anything less than confusing.  I think what it comes down to is that Milligan is giving the characters physical problems that are supposed to indicate their mental troubles.  As an idea it sounds good, but the execution is flawed in that we don’t know what the mental troubles would be, so therefore the physical problems don’t make much sense.   

You just gotta love the “guest appearance” of the Batman.  It is touted on the cover, but he appears on only page, investigating a murder in ... Metropolis.  All of the murders take place in one night.  So, what exactly is Batman doing in Metropolis?  Superman looking over the murder scene makes sense, but Batman?

 

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