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Tech Jacket #3
Tech Jacket Volume 3
Zack Thompson: community college drop out, lives with his parents... This is who protects us from what lies beyond our world?! But he's also Tech Jacket, the self-styled -Galactic Guardian of Earth, - and when a big-ass space ship enters Earth's orbit, Zack will face the greatest challenge of his life! Collects Tech Jacket (2013) #1-6.
152 pages, Paperback
First published January 20, 2015
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February 25, 2021
Tech Jacket Vol. 3 Touch the Sky collects issues 1-6 of the series written by Joe Keatinge with art by Khary Randolph.
A gigantic spaceship appears in our solar system and Zach teleports to investigate. Meanwhile on Earth, Mr. Crowe is plotting to take control of the Tech Jacket armour.
I felt like this arc took a step back in story telling but contained a ton of action. I enjoyed getting Zach's parents' perspective to see how they worry and care about their son. I felt the art was a little off in the first half of the book before they switched colorist halfway through. This book reminds me a lot of Jamie Reyes Blue Beetle.
A gigantic spaceship appears in our solar system and Zach teleports to investigate. Meanwhile on Earth, Mr. Crowe is plotting to take control of the Tech Jacket armour.
I felt like this arc took a step back in story telling but contained a ton of action. I enjoyed getting Zach's parents' perspective to see how they worry and care about their son. I felt the art was a little off in the first half of the book before they switched colorist halfway through. This book reminds me a lot of Jamie Reyes Blue Beetle.
March 11, 2023
Tech Jacket has an entirely new direction with this volume and it’s a very good thing, too! This volume boasts a big bad similar to the main hero and because of that, all of the interactions between them are chaotic, but also strategic. There are hugely personal issues the hero deals with in this one as well which acts as a great break between intergalactic action!
July 24, 2021
I liked this better than the series' Robert Kirkman wrote for Tech Jacket. It was more like a solo book about a super hero than Invincible's side character's book.
June 5, 2021
Some really, really clumsy dialogue ("His astronomical damage is intolerable!" -- in reference to the damage a character is causing), some strange, abrupt storytelling (that same issue has a threat suddenly appear from a source that was not in any way presented in the same issue, and treats it as only a surprise that the threat appeared, not the source). An attempt to show the broad sweep of an artificial intelligence's grasp of the world through programmed learning references Shakespeare, Wagner, and chess: and is written in such a way as to suggest those three (alone!) make for a brilliant AI. What??
The book, in previous hands, was mostly just fun and entertaining, but this one is just...bad. Not so bad that it's boring or infuriating, but enough that I would not recommend it at all. There's little characterization of Zack, his father, or Lin, who I'm pretty sure is literally only referenced as "Zach's girlfriend" throughout this entire volume (hope you know her name already!). Points appear for characterization, but they're never extended into lines. Geldarian history is re-written, but it's unmentioned, so it smacks of poor research rather than conscious retcon (from societal tool for a species that evolved into physiological weakness, it's now...a weapon only, of course, developed specifically for war!)
It all smacks of amateurish, untrained writing, which feels like a harsh thing to say--but an accurate one. It's not terrible, but it really isn't good either. The art is perfectly enjoyable, I suppose, but the poor storytelling around it (and that it embodies in abrupt moments like those described) don't give it any space to overcome the limitations of the writing.
Unfortunate.
The book, in previous hands, was mostly just fun and entertaining, but this one is just...bad. Not so bad that it's boring or infuriating, but enough that I would not recommend it at all. There's little characterization of Zack, his father, or Lin, who I'm pretty sure is literally only referenced as "Zach's girlfriend" throughout this entire volume (hope you know her name already!). Points appear for characterization, but they're never extended into lines. Geldarian history is re-written, but it's unmentioned, so it smacks of poor research rather than conscious retcon (from societal tool for a species that evolved into physiological weakness, it's now...a weapon only, of course, developed specifically for war!)
It all smacks of amateurish, untrained writing, which feels like a harsh thing to say--but an accurate one. It's not terrible, but it really isn't good either. The art is perfectly enjoyable, I suppose, but the poor storytelling around it (and that it embodies in abrupt moments like those described) don't give it any space to overcome the limitations of the writing.
Unfortunate.
November 12, 2025
Not a bad arc as these things go, but it should have tied in more to concurrent issues of Invincible (specifically Vol. 20: Friends). Like, I just read that volume before this one (because I'm a stickler for continuity like that). Then Tech Jacket showed me a tall, thin, scientific genius villain with long hair and a beard going to the president to propose using a robotic army to "protect" the country...and I'm supposed to believe it WASN'T Rex/Robot?!? Like, come on, guys--that one just seemed like a softball to me.
September 4, 2019
Still entertaining, but it seems like Tech Jacket can't really be hurt even though he's presented as less powerful than Invincible and others.
July 7, 2022
The art is astonishing, yet the story it seems whacky and dellusional. The new writing is just one line to get ghastly.
April 16, 2023
Yeah it is a pretty good run. The art and action is really good.
April 2, 2025
It's not as silly as the last few volumes.
August 4, 2016
I realised that I've read and reviewed this before as Volume 1 of the digital series.
Space superhero adventures
Zach Thompson is Techjacket, the self-styled “galactic guardian of Earth”, who protects the Earth from aliens. As he encounters a formidable foe, we glimpse at flashbacks at how he became a hero. Meanwhile a billionaire is after his tech. A lot of space action and fighting ensue.
Entertaining and enjoyable, this light-hearted traditional super-hero story is worth a look – reminiscent of Marvel's Nova (from what I can remember). Engaging with clear good illustrations.
Space superhero adventures
Zach Thompson is Techjacket, the self-styled “galactic guardian of Earth”, who protects the Earth from aliens. As he encounters a formidable foe, we glimpse at flashbacks at how he became a hero. Meanwhile a billionaire is after his tech. A lot of space action and fighting ensue.
Entertaining and enjoyable, this light-hearted traditional super-hero story is worth a look – reminiscent of Marvel's Nova (from what I can remember). Engaging with clear good illustrations.
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