One of the core “concepts” of this book (I use the word “concept” pretty loosely, as the notions that go into my comics don’t lend themselves well to verbal description) is the idea that the boys have somehow found the entrance to a place that I visit frequently in my dreams called the “Infinite Basement.”
The “Infinite basement” is an impossible place of endless chambers and downward projecting stairways that lead into an endless variety of rooms and storage units filled with inexplicable devices and machinery with indiscernible purposes.
Because in my real life, the basements of every place I‘ve ever lived were infested by squirrels, I decided that in this book, the squirrels were a necessary functioning component of the “Infinite Basement”, keeping it functional in ways that defy comprehension.
I decided that the “Infinite Basement” was an enormous machine unto itself, with the squirrels being its chief source of power, in some inexplicable way. Hence, the title of the book.
I never really explored the idea very deeply in the book, as I got more involved with how the boys interact with the place, and their own character flaws. Perhaps, when I get to the additional pages of the final chapter (which I plan on expanding) I’ll be able to make it more cohesive. I doubt it, though. It’s not as if I have any control over these narratives.
