Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 3: League of Losers

Marvel Team-Up (2004) (Collected Editions) #3

by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker

The heroes of the Marvel Universe are no more. Spider-Man? Wolverine? Captain America? Iron Man? Gone - but the people of the world still need saving; they still need heroes. Make way for The League of Losers Plus: The team-up you thought you'd never see Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Invincible bounces over to the Marvel Universe for a visit Collects Marvel Team-Up #14-18.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Spider Man, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2006

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

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first issue collected here is a one-shot guest-starring Robert Kirkman's Invincible. This was great if, like me, you're a fan of Invincible's own Image Comics book, particularly as it tied into a longer story-arc, but probably meant very little to anybody who doesn't follow Invincible.

The rest of this book is a four-part time-travel/alternate reality story featuring the 'League of Losers'; basically a bunch of D-lister superheroes. It's interesting that a couple of these D-listers are very much A-listers now, a decade or so later (I'm mainly thinking of X-23; currently known as Wolverine).

The story itself was entertaining enough read all in one sitting, as I just did on my lunch break, but I don't know that it would have held my attention if I'd had to wait a month between installments.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Angstrom pushes Invincible into Marvel 616 where he meets and teams up with Spider-man to take down Doc Ock. This is a fun tie in and absolutely an ad / catch up for Invincible so slightly weird that Kirkman got Marvel to sign on.

Fun and a must for Invincible completionists

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read the Invincible/Spider-Man team-up and it was pretty good. It didn’t really add much to the story of either character, but it had its really funny moments.

[RetroHaven5976 · Rating 5 out of 5]

The invincible crossover is great and the fact it’s been hinted at in the animated series makes me even more hyped up reading this.

[Odo · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5.0

[Adam · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm trying to read X-23 comics, but after the good first two books, I can't say I found any joy in reading them so far, because she has a new look and personality with every bloody clueless writer / illustrator.

League of Losers has a really unbelievable and poorly written story where a bunch of time traveling assholes with jet packs and energy weapons kill all the superheroes of the world. Why didn't it occur to any other civilizations or supervillains to bring energy weapons or bombs against the heroes so far!

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although featured on the cover, the Spider Man & Invincible team up is only one issue, and the best thing about this volume. The rest is devoted to the concept of all the major world heroes being killed and the fate of the world being in the hands of a few rag-tag Z-list heroes. None of these folks are very interesting and the story is just one big battle. Pretty bland.

[Nicolas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full disclosure, I only read the Spider-man/Invincible team-up issue. I give that **. It was cool that they expanded on Spidey's little one-panel cameo in the Invincible book, but like most crossovers it was just clunky and weird.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another fun entry into this series. Invincible pays a visit, and an unlikely team up saves the world. An alien group kill nearly all the superheroes, and only the B list ones can save the past. A fun, very light read considering the topic. A good read.

[Joe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow this was fun..Sad ending..

[Erik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ohhh geez it's that crossover