BLOODY GLORIOUS!! Every moment of this is perfectly what I expect from a battle beast solo, from his personality, to the premise. It’s just so fitting! I ended up picking this up a week later from release because of major FOMO, I was completely worried that I would also be missing out as I’ve really only read the first volume of invincible and seen the show…but I would be missing out on more if I didn’t read this! From the very first page it seems to establish that this took place early on in the invincible series, and occurred right after battle beast decided to drop by and release there was no one worthy enough for him to fight. But every page on this is beautifully drawn and colored to perfection, every splatter of blood every endless piece of space…I love it!
But you know who doesn’t love it? The artificial intelligence on board the ship that battle beast captured and proceeded to kill the entire crew of. Turns out they were the ones who panicked right before their deaths and pointed he towards Earth, and now he is even angrier that turned out to be unworthy of his power. At first battle beast was angry at the computer, even going so far to hate its voice. But after a few weeks of silence aboard the ship, with nothing but the rotting parts of the crew to keep him fed, battle beast grew to welcome the change in silence. But to our benefit this computer is white inquisitive and decided to ask why battle beast is doing this, and wanting to keep his legend alive he actually decided to answer. It turns out battle beast comes from the war planet Dornn, where he was known as Thokk. As he grew to fighting age he found that there was a rage that boiled within himself that he is completely unable to contain. In time his strength grew with his rage and he brought peace to his world by ending the wars. But his rage only intensified and as he realized it was a curse he left the utopia he built so his rage wouldn’t destroy it. That’s actually quite a compassionate side to battle beast I didn’t think we would find. But of course now he is in a journey to find an opponent so powerful that he will finally die and his rage will finally end. But heres the hilarious thing, the ship has the databases and knowledge necessary to point him in the right direction…but it also doesn’t want to lie. It was quite fond of the previous crew, and anywhere it takes him will be with the end goal of trying to kill him. Hahahaha, perfect! They are on the same page!
“Okay then…let me scan my database and see how fast we can end your life!”
Immediately I am shocked by the red after glow beauty of the planet battle beast is brought to, and the absolute drip he has on. Dude knows how to look good in a fit. On this mysterious world there only appears to be one intelligent life crated thing sticking out from the ground like a container…with a single head popping out of it. As battle beast approaches the head he tells it to throw away its charade as he knows it is alive. Immediately the four eyed creature bares its teeth and apologizes to a creature who is obviously powerful and wise for the deception that he merely uses as a defensive measure. Without battle beast saying anything, the creature proceeds to go on a long tap session about how battle beast looks powerful enough to free him and that his story is a sad one as he was once a prince of a great empire and when it was time for him to take the throne his brutal sister destroyed their kingdom, and imprisoned him in the cosmic nail we now see. But before the creature can continue yapping on about his made up story, battle beast uses his fist to crack open the nail and reálcese the head. And what pops out is even uglier than the head itself, as below the head is a large muscle bound body with 2 spikes protruding from each of its hands. The monster calls battle beast approaches fool and claims that it tricked him and that he is really the tyrant who has conquered empires across the universe and now his reign of terror may begin again with battle beasts death! But without saying anything battle beast simply jumps up and latches onto the monster face and begins to yell at him that he did not trick him and he knows his story, and he only freed him because he wants to know this tyrants power and battle beast wants all of it!!
As the fight begins battle beast slams his helmet into the beasts mouth, shattering its teeth…but also shattering battle beast’s helmet and cutting open his head. The tyrant only laughs as he regenerates his teeth in only a few seconds, but battle beast does not relinquish at this foe. He immediately goes for his sword and lobs the tyrant’s hand off. But of course that can also grow back in a few moments. Soon the tyrant not only breaks battle beast’s sword, but also gets him in a headlock. But that proves to be an immediately mistake as now battle beast is close enough to lock his jaws on the tyrant. The tyrant yells out in pain and tries to rip battle beast off, and while battle beast does release himself…it is only in short bursts as he progressively bites down even harder before ripping off the tyrant’s arm at the bone! Apparently that much damage takes longer to grow back, but now battle beast has the creature’s own arm as a weapon! And even as the tyrant quips during the fight, battle beast doesn’t let up. There were even moments a bit ago before loosing his arm that the tyrant blamed his own fatigue being stuck for so long on why he was fighting poorly…in response battle beast offered to stop the fight so he could recover because he wants to fight him at full power, hahahaha. Of course the tyrant refused and that’s where we find ourselves now…with battle beast’s using the tyrant’s own arm to slash through his face. The tyrant attempted to grab battle beast by the neck…only to forget about his own arm in battle beast’s hand…which battle beast used to cut the tyrant in half while staring him in the eyes. What a way to end a fight, omg!!
With the fight over battle beast gets the chance to tell the tyrant that while he was on this world his legends and tales of his might grew…they were wrong and he was not a worthy opponent. But strangely as battle beast walks away..a small half alive grey alien climbed from the tyrant’s guts. He claimed to be a prince and asked if battle beast could return him to his empire. This is super suspicious, right? Cut in half just like the tyrant is now, and a whole story about being a prince. Could this be what is left of the tyrant, maybe it is extremely hard to kill him? Or it’s someone that was eaten by the tyrant and actually needs help. Either way battle beast decides to bring him back to the ship but only claims to bring him back as good that will stay fresh a little longer than the tyrant’s arm he also brought back for food. I’m not entirely convinced of that, but I’m so excited to see where this goes!