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Invincible. Image Comics' young hero.

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18:14 / 28.03.05

There's apparently an INVICIBLE #0 coming out which serves as a primer/jumping-on point for new readers...

12:07 / 07.04.05

I finally got the 4th trade of this and it was pretty good. I really like the Teen Drama stuff between, Mark, Eve, William, and Amber. I like the Spiderman-like juggling between a social life and superheroing. I like how the new Guardians are so ineffective. I love the strange subplot with Angstrom Levy and the fun stories in Atlantis and on Mars. I also love the new rogues gallery and they’re connection to the mob, very Savage Dragon.

The one thing I don’t like is Debbie’s patheticness. And I know she’s going through a tough time but so is Mark and he’s dealing with it. She was pretty weak even before she found out about Nolan and I was hoping the shock that her life was a sham would get her moving to try and build a new, more real one for herself, but that hasn’t been the case (at least as far as Vol. 4), she’s still dependant on Nolan (his royalty checks) and now she’s become dependant on booze. I think she needs to start coming into her own, maybe get a job (not because she needs the money) but to become more independent. She needs to start acting like a grown woman and not like an orphaned child.

17:36 / 29.07.05

For anyone interested Invincible will meet Spiderman in Marvel Team-Up #14 written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by the original Invinci-artist Cory Walker. He says this will take place in Invincible continuity and will have “lasting” effects on the character. I do think this is a really fun idea. Read more.

Spyder Todd 2008

21:38 / 29.07.05

I just bought the new super-awesome hardcover of issues 1-13. This series rules.

'Nuff said.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:55 / 30.07.05

Having only just read this thread, this sounds great.

One question... I have little or no knowledge of Image continuity. Is it necessary to know stuff to enjoy this? Cos it sounds ace, but I don't want to have to go back and read a bunch of Image stuff which really doesn't appeal to me in order to understand a comic that does.

16:14 / 30.07.05

No, you really don't have to have read any Image. Sometimes characters from the Savage Dragon or Noble Causes will pop up but their parts are minor. Also, if you don't like the traditional Image style of comics you should still give this book a try cause it reads more like a DC/Marvel mix than anything else.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:17 / 30.07.05

Cheers. I'll give it a go.

21:27 / 31.07.05

does anybody know how to contact Robert Kirkman or the artist(s) behind the current run?

the cover to INVINCIBLE #0 uses as pictorial reference the same image I had appropriated for a t-shirt once also used as reference for the character on the cover. I wonder if they got from the same source as me or via one of my t-shirts.

(for those interested, this image appears in PHENOMENA, a book put together by the editors of the FORTEAN TIMES.)

14:49 / 01.08.05

Bendis recently put Kirkman's real-life phone number in the letter column of POWERS as a friendly jab. Kirkman was inundated with calls from fans and put a message on his machine saying 'ok, ok, enough already, that damn Bendis! read my comics!' and such (I must admit I called it just to see if it was for real). Kirkman retaliated by putting a embarrassing pic of Bendis (with hair) at age 10 or thereabouts in the letter col. of his WALKING DEAD book. Bendis responded by posting Kirkman's phone number again, this time in a Newsarama interview, hoping to reach a wider audience to harrass Kirkman. I think the two were also trying to do a stunt like on SCRUBS (where they listed a phone number which was a cell phone that was passed around the cast & crew for fans to call and see who they'd get on the line). Kirkman and Bendis are very good friends so Kirkman must not have been too upset about the posting of his number.

I could dig up the issue of POWERS with the number and send it to you, if you like. I don't think Kirkman has changed it.

17:10 / 01.08.05

er, thanks but no thanks. I can wait until his site gets all set up or something.

17:15 / 01.08.05

*LOL* Bizarre thing Bendis did, I know.
You could always email him c/o Image or pick up an issue of Invincible and write to him there.

16:48 / 14.09.05

for Invincible fans:

from Cinescape.com:
>> The CS Moore Studio is teaming up with INVINCIBLE co-creators Robert Kirkman, Corey Walker and Ryan Ottley produce statues and busts based on characters from the popular series.

Clayburn Moore will begin with a statue of the lead character Mark Grayson, aka Invincible.

The only release date give so far is Winter 2006.

14:07 / 05.11.05

The Invincible issue of Marvel Team-Up came out; Invincible and Spidey. It's fun, breezy, some entertaining riffs on how Spidey and the Marvel U. might be perceived by a total stranger from another superhero universe. Parts of it sort of feel like the 99 cent Invincible issue that came out a while ago that catches new readers up on the character and his story.

02:35 / 07.11.05

Yeah, but it's worth it just for the "black man" line.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:08 / 04.08.06

Finally, on the strength of you guys' recommendations, bought the first HC this morning (the local comic shop had a 25% off all trades offer, so I thought it was a good time to check it out). I think I'll be going back tomorrow to buy the second.

That was ACE. (The first 13 issues). Really, really good. I only otherwise know Kirkman from Walking Dead (and you know me and zombies...)- the guy really does know how to do the "soap opera" element of a fantastic story, doesn't he?

Reminded me a little of Veitch's Brat Pack, though a lot less splattery and sneering (don't get me wrong- I loved Brat Pack, but it WAS very cynical, where Invincible has a lot more heart).

And the wham-bam straight superhero stuff was also excellent.

I liked it an awful lot.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:03 / 05.08.06

I've just committed myself to the poorhouse by buying the second volume (which I believe goes up to ish 24). I hope you're all proud of yourselves.

Jawsus-son Starship

18:13 / 05.08.06

I've just finished the third TPB and was most impressed. I like the way, not unlike Buffy the Vampire Slayer that Kirkman takes teenage problems (in this case, the divorce/seperation anxiety of children mixed in with becoming a man and the dad/son problems that arise from that) and turns it straight up. Invincible vs. Omni-Man was heartbreaking, as well as the last page when he informed Allen that he might just finish high school - heart snapped in two then.

Got Vol. 4+5 on order.

11:59 / 06.08.06

I just read Vol. 6! I know a lot of you are catching up so I won’t spoil anything, but this Vol. was a lot of fun. Mark in space!

23:12 / 06.08.06

I read the first two hard-backs when I was lying around a friend's flat in San Francisco before my recent trip to San Diego. Really liked it. Straight Superhero comics, but pretty much the model of how straight superhero comics should be done for a modern audience. It's not high art, but it's funny, human, often shocking, extremely violent when it wants to be and generally drips love for the genre.

Hurrah for Invicible!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:20 / 05.08.07

Got the first four trades from the library and am scratching my head trying to understand the love in this thread. I suppose I'm bored when people take their favourite superheroes, file the serial numbers off and present it as their great idea. And is Kirkman fifteen years old or something? The number of stories he builds up to and then looses interest in and hurriedly wraps up. At least the art improves a bit when the first guy leaves.

So yeah, I read as much as I did because I assumed that at some point it would be revealed as a parody of other people's work but worryingly it seems to be done straight. Nice homophobia too.

22:01 / 07.08.07

I've gone off Invincible lately. It was actually something small that triggered it; Mark went off to visit Eve in Africa, and despite the conceit that she had done so to put her (truly astonishing) powers to use helping people, she appeared to be just chilling in her safari house, near a village straight out of 1920s National Geographics. It was such an accumulation of cliches and shallowness: an cartoon-Africa, the natives used as a silent colorful background to the angst of the pretty white people ... bleah.

On top of that there was the appearance of future-Eve as someone who apparently had spent the rest of her life pining for Mark, to the point fixing that was the one thing she felt important enough to pass on to him. Again, bleah.

It wasn't a "I am HORRIBLY INSULTED, I am NEVER READING THIS AGAIN", I just didn't feel any drive to pick up recent issues, or the trade.

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