Infinity Serpent

The final form of the Infinity Serpent

The Infinity Serpent was a mystical being, a manifestation of Cerebus' Magnifier Effect during the final days of Rick Nash's stay at the Wallis Pub.

Dave Sim on the Infinity Serpent

• The magnifying echoes bouncing between them become so strong that they start manifesting in the physical world, chipping paint off of the Seat of Truth and manifesting in super-reality as the big (actually little) round glowing white strange thing over the Seat of the Right Hand page 170 panel 1 and the Infinity Serpent on the Seat of the Left Hand page 170 panel 3-who then beats a hasty retreat. I got partway through laying out page 170 with the Infinity Serpent basically slipping out through a mouse-hole in the baseboards after passing through the chair leg (doosh). Just a funny visual: "feets don't fail me now!" And then as I was tightening it up, I thought, Hang on. Where do you think you're going? I mean, it's all fiction, right?

Unless it isn't. " That old serpent," as he/she/it is called in Revelation whether it's Chauah's fictitious snake in the Garden of Eden, Satan, Leviathan, Alan Moore's sock puppet, the question became an obvious one: which team am I on? And to me, there was only one answer: I've got to catch the snake. So I basically did the cartoony little drawing you see here, with the snake making a break for it out of the heavenly Sanctuary (as Rick saw it), getting trapped in a cartoon book and dropped into hell. And then I thought, this really resonates with some comic-book history and with my own history: because the little cartoon snake was so small, he looked like a worm, instead of a snake, and I flashed on the first extended comic-book serial-Cerebus' first ancestor in a very real sense-the Mr. Mind serial in Captain Marvel Adventures (issues 22 to 46) where Otto Binder (interesting name, eh?) and C.C. Beck had built up this suspense about this thoroughly evil character who wasn't seen on- panel for several months (an unheard of length of time in the age of the self-contained comic book story) and who turned out to be this super-intelligent…worm.