Invincible, Volume 4

Invincible Definitive Edition #4

by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley (illustrator)

While Mark Grayson—aka Invincible—continues to deal with the loss of his father, he finds himself face-to-face with a massive amount of villains and the worst conflict of all: teenage love!

Collects INVINCIBLE #20-24 & INVINCIBLE #0

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published August 27, 2024

About the author

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.

Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.

In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.

Reviews

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

EN I’m really enjoying reading this series. Kirkman’s writing style here is quite different from The Walking Dead: it’s more expansive, yet always supported by strong dialogues that enrich the narrative.

Invincible is still trying to deal with the consequences of the events involving his father and the burden of now being a superhero — one of the most important on the planet.

At the same time, other events unfold that make this volume particularly focused on expanding and deepening the universe in which the series takes place.

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PT Estou a gostar bastante de ler esta série. O estilo de escrita de Kirkman aqui difere muito de The Walking Dead: é mais extenso, mas sempre sustentado por diálogos de qualidade que enriquecem a narrativa.

Invincible continua a tentar lidar com as consequências dos acontecimentos relacionados com o pai e com o peso de ser agora um super-herói — um dos mais importantes do planeta.

Em paralelo, desenvolvem-se outros acontecimentos que tornam este volume particularmente focado na expansão e aprofundamento do universo onde a série se insere.

[Andy Cantrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

A much better offering than the previous, I'm starting to see where the show diverges in small ways.

[Phillipos Kalafatis · Rating 5 out of 5]

yeah going to need all 500 hundred of these now

[Ben Southworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's fun to read a comic series from the beginning, and without needing knowledge of years (or even decades) worth of backstory. I enjoyed the work this volume did to flesh out the world a bit, particularly the issue focusing on Allen the Alien, as well as the inclusion of some character origin stories at the very end. Beyond all that, this chunk of issues moves Mark's story along a bit - advancing his relationship with Amber, and setting up Angstrom Levy as a good future villain.

[Sheldon Wiebe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even as Mark/Invincible's life has been upended, there are new complications in his life.

For instance, he's falling in love and, given recent events in life, he's not sure how he feels about that (at least initially).

Then there's his relatively new job working for that shadowy government agency run by Cecil Stedman - essentially taking his father role as one of Earth's protectors.

Some guys just can't catch a break.

[Douglas Yannaghas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed feelings on this entry. I understand that recaps were more nessecary back in the day, with people more commonly buying single issues on a monthly basis, but in this collected format, it feels a little clunky and drawn out. The development of Amber and Mark's relationship is good though, and the mini origin stories at the back-end are great fun even if noticibly lower in art quality. Always love Allen the Alien. Give me more Allen the Alien.

[Jacob Mello · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the fourth volune of one of my favorite shows to this date, considering how much lore there already is with it being a smaller story. I took a long break reading this, ended up just sitting on my bed shelf, but i finally picked it up again today and read like 60% of it in one sitting. This volume covers the end of season 1 of the show on prime video, and its such a good story ending to the intro season and story.

[Dbgirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you mix teenage love problems with superheroes, this is what it might look like. I loved the scenes with Mark and Amber, their problems were either relatable (sort of) or funny. The background stories were once again horrible! Poor Allen the Alien, he might be my next favourite character after Mark.

[Arran Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story continues. I really enjoyed the storyline that is about Amber and Mark here, this is where this edition has it strong points. It was an entertaining hour read!

[Jakub · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still great, still great looking, still liking it but here we stumbled on an episode important for character development but a bit light on the overarching plot development. Still, much much fun.

[James C · Rating 4 out of 5]

The origin stories section, had horrible artwork but that’s ok I guess

[toby · Rating 4 out of 5]

+1 star for origins but I wish they were more detailed hm

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.7

[Julian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good set up (although maybe too much setup??), excited to see where the storylines go in Volume 5.

[Matthew Spanier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Comic Amber and comic Debbie locked in an intense battle for the title of worst character in fiction