Invincible Volume 1: Family Matters (Invincible, 1)

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Two weeks later, Mark, in a homemade costume, stops a supervillain with rock-hard skin from stealing jewels. When Mark Grayson inherits superpowers atseventeen, it's a dream come true - until he learns that being a hero isn't asblack and white as the comic books he read as a kid. Mark finishes reading his Science Dog comic book in there and walks into the kitchen to get breakfast. There are oh so many instances I can choose from to demonstrate this point, but I'll just include two. Markus Murphy: Also known as Marky, he is the son of Mark and Anissa after the latter raped the former.

Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001.If I hadn't seen the show, I'd probably be waxing lyrical about how fun this was and how it combines effective art with tight storytelling and manages to work at several levels. For about the whole of last year I just kept hearing good things about Invincible , so much so that not a day went by that someone I knew who read comics didn't mention this book . He's pretty much a mix of Spidey and a young Superman and it was so fun to read Family Matters in-between long, boring, books.

Also, in the 13th-season episode " Earthly Girls are Easy", Buck Strickland plays with an Invincible action figure when planning his entrance at the benefit concert. Well I decided to find out for myself today and so I picked it up hoping to be pleasantly surprised - maybe it’s a smart satire on superhero stories, maybe it’s a Superman analogue that takes a different tack to the concept of superheroism, maybe anything! Mark gets his superhero outfit thanks to his dad’s superhero tailor connection, fights baddies, teams up with another group of young superheroes, goes on an adventure with his dad, fights more baddies, and moons over the pretty redhead who’s seeing someone else and of course wears a super-revealing outfit. Along the way he runs into a teen superhero group too, has his first battles and meet his first villain. If that is the case, I might reevaluate the volume as some sort of clever backdrop to whatever supposed mindfuckery coming forward.Mom sitting at home worrying, on the other hand, was a little trite and the Big Bad turning out to be the morose and mediocre high school teacher was telegraphed a bit too much. Sure it was good for dramatic effect the first time, but after that technique was employed multiple times it came across as lazy and wasting valuable panels that could have been used more effectively. This is supposed to be professional work and it my opinion it looks like something drawn by a high school kid getting a C+ in his art class. I appreciate that we're just focusing on the highlights of the story, but it feels like we're skipping way too much. Mark Grayson/Invincible is our superhero main character, son of an ordinary woman and a man who happens to be this world’s “Superman”.

I enjoy Kirkman's sense of humor in the series, especially Mark's family sitting around the dinner table when your dad is a super hero and you're a fledgling super hero yourself. Alas, even those qualities felt tropey to some extent and have been dealt with in other works in far superior ways.There's a charming feel about the book , with a look into a adolescent boy dealing with normal high school stuff and in the mean time acquiring super powers and starting his new job as the amateur superhero.