New Comic Book Wednesday: 9/16/15
7:20 PM
So this book has been going on for quite awhile now!This series has a special place in my heart because it's one of the first that I read when I started discovering the realm of comics. At the beginning, this book was about a teenage boy named Mark Grayson in his senior year of highschool desperately wanting to gain the superpowers he knows he should have. His mother is a human, but his father is from another planet called Viltrum and has powers similar to Superman. Mark inevitably gets his powers and joins a team of other teen heroes, consisting of Atom Eve, Duplikate, Robot, and Rexplode. They have normal problems that teenagers have and fight bad guys in their spare time. Then, Mark finds out things about his father that change everything. 100 something issues later and things are entirely different and completely crazy. There is space travel, bug people, giant talking dinosaurs, invasions, the world ends, giant monsters, cloning, alternate dimensions, and so on and so forth. This book is SO much fun and such a feat of storytelling. It's never boring. I feel like I know these characters like I know my best friend. Mark has loved and lost, and grown so much over the series. It's incredibly real and packed with emotion and action at the same time. This issue was bittersweet because it's actually the last one before the series gets REBOOTED! I guess I understand why they're doing it. Without spoiling anything, Mark and Atom Eve have changed so much and the problems they used to have are kind of distant now. I suppose it's time for some new dilemmas and action. Seriously though, this is my absolute favorite superhero book. It was a blast picking up all the trades and reading them one after another. There are 21 of them! If you'd like to take on reading a long and exciting series, Invincible is perfect for you!
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