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Invincible #14-15
Invincible, tom 7
Siódmy tom najlepszego komiksu superbohaterskiego we wszechświecie! Mark Grayson, znany jako Invincible, wraz z ojcem, Allenem i innymi superbohaterami wyrusza na wojnę z Viltrum. Czy uda im się zwyciężyć najpotężniejszych wojowników wszechświata? Czy uda im się przeżyć? Jaki los czeka Ziemię, jeżeli im się nie powiedzie? Widowiskowe walki, niespodziewane zwroty akcji, rozstania i powroty – to wszystko znajdziecie w tym albumie!
Autorem scenariusza serii jest Robert Kirkman, twórca m.in. „Żywych trupów”, a rysunki wykonał Ryan Ottley. Na tom składają się zeszyty 71–84.
Autorem scenariusza serii jest Robert Kirkman, twórca m.in. „Żywych trupów”, a rysunki wykonał Ryan Ottley. Na tom składają się zeszyty 71–84.
367 pages, Hardcover
First published February 28, 2012
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Robert Kirkman
2,745 books6,933 followersRobert 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.
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.
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November 21, 2017
This is really just such a consistently good comic book.
For every bit of action in the panels, there's the same amount of emotion in the storytelling. And I'm not afraid to admit that I'm going to be sad when this ride is over.
Since this is part of the Ultimate Collection, there's almost too much that happens here to give a 'review' of what happened. In an effort to save time (and not spoil some incredible scenes), I'll just say that it was all pretty much the fantastic sort of stuff I've come to expect from Kirkman's series.
One thing I wasn't expecting was o be so interested in all the secondary characters in this title. For some reason, I thought this particular volume was particularly great when it came to the side plots. In fact, one of the main things I want to find out in the next book is what the hell happened to Rex!
Of course, SO MUCH happens with Marc & Eve. So. Much. Between the pregnancy and Eve's weight gain, nothing went down the way I would have predicted. And I love Kirkman for that!
Good stuff! And highly recommended for anyone who wants a superhero tale that's outside of the DC/Marvel universe.
For every bit of action in the panels, there's the same amount of emotion in the storytelling. And I'm not afraid to admit that I'm going to be sad when this ride is over.
Since this is part of the Ultimate Collection, there's almost too much that happens here to give a 'review' of what happened. In an effort to save time (and not spoil some incredible scenes), I'll just say that it was all pretty much the fantastic sort of stuff I've come to expect from Kirkman's series.
One thing I wasn't expecting was o be so interested in all the secondary characters in this title. For some reason, I thought this particular volume was particularly great when it came to the side plots. In fact, one of the main things I want to find out in the next book is what the hell happened to Rex!
Of course, SO MUCH happens with Marc & Eve. So. Much. Between the pregnancy and Eve's weight gain, nothing went down the way I would have predicted. And I love Kirkman for that!
Good stuff! And highly recommended for anyone who wants a superhero tale that's outside of the DC/Marvel universe.
April 26, 2021
Invincible is so much fun that I've been devouring the Completed Volumes one after another. My collection is now including Vol 7. Over the successive volumes, I've noticed an uptick in the quality of the art. While the art from the first volume or two was never ever bad-the new style is more pleasing to me. The story? It's still a lot of fun.
The volume starts with the Viltrumite War and the first half of the stories revolve around that epic and violent conflict. Watching the three Omni's (Invincible and his little brother and his father) fight against the Viltrumite Empire was a great story. It was also quite violent and dark. Now the ending of the war was a nice twist and I have to admit I didn't see that coming. I doubt it's truly over, but for now, that was an interesting ending.
Then the 2nd half of the story revolves around Invincible's return to Earth. His personal issues and his strange love/hate relationship with the government continues. This part is more light hearted and does much for Invincible's "normal" side. From friends to family, there are some big changes revealed.
Invincibles has been a consistently entertaining series. The story has kept me interested through 7 volumes. While I really don't care about the extra fluff (I look at it as free advertising for his other titles), I've enjoyed the entire Invincible run. This is a really fun comic.Well I've gotten this far, count me in for volume 8.
The volume starts with the Viltrumite War and the first half of the stories revolve around that epic and violent conflict. Watching the three Omni's (Invincible and his little brother and his father) fight against the Viltrumite Empire was a great story. It was also quite violent and dark. Now the ending of the war was a nice twist and I have to admit I didn't see that coming. I doubt it's truly over, but for now, that was an interesting ending.
Then the 2nd half of the story revolves around Invincible's return to Earth. His personal issues and his strange love/hate relationship with the government continues. This part is more light hearted and does much for Invincible's "normal" side. From friends to family, there are some big changes revealed.
Invincibles has been a consistently entertaining series. The story has kept me interested through 7 volumes. While I really don't care about the extra fluff (I look at it as free advertising for his other titles), I've enjoyed the entire Invincible run. This is a really fun comic.Well I've gotten this far, count me in for volume 8.
May 18, 2024
This series is on a roll now...
June 7, 2016
The story starts right where the last volume left off. Atom Eve deals with pregnancy and doesn't know how to tell Invincible.
Meanwhile Invincible is off planet united with his father and brother battling against the last of the Vultrimites, which results in a stunning conclusion for now.
Meanwhile Invincible is off planet united with his father and brother battling against the last of the Vultrimites, which results in a stunning conclusion for now.
March 5, 2018
Really enjoying this series. The twists and turns continue to be unexpected and I'm enjoying the story arcs following some of the secondary characters.
April 3, 2016
This series just keeps getting better.
January 24, 2016
I think I need to start wearing a diaper while reading these.
November 3, 2025
loved seeing more of omni-man.
February 27, 2012
My natural and immediate tendency is to gripe about this collection. I want to say "I get it - you enjoy knocking teeth out of, punching holes through, ripping arms off of, and doing anything short of decapitating your main characters and then giving them a little bed rest to recover before saving the world again." Kirkman is by all appearances a creative genius, so why does he so often go back to the well of ultraviolence for ultraviolence's sake? Much of the first half of this book resembled what I hate so much about the "bestselling graphic novel of all time", THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN - that there are two evenly matched super-people who punch each other really, really hard back and forth for fifty pages before both of them collapse.
In some respects, all that punching was necessary, and ultimately Kirkman pulls it off brilliantly. That's a theme with Kirkman - just when you think he's done all he can do, he creates a plot twist that blows your mind. While the Viltrumite War arc was a bit disappointing in itself, it sets up the future for something great. When Invincible gets back to Earth and into the normal swing of things is when things really get interesting, because it's the quirkiness of Kirkman's comics that is so intriguing. The dozens of superheroes and supervillains, the relationships (Robot-Monster Girl, Invincible-fat Atom Eve, Deborah-Omni-Man, etc.), how everyone hates the way Invincible carries them while flying.
And of course, Invincible goes through another bout of existential confusion and angst. What is the best use for a superhero? So far he has been a reactionary character - when a bad guy comes around, he beats them up. Should he be more like Atom Eve, who flew away to Africa to help starving people? And, without spoiling too much, this is where the hardcover ends, with Invincible's decision to be more proactive with his power and, of course, a moderately-effective cliffhanger to leave the reader thinking "WTF?"
INVINCIBLE seems to be the anti-WALKING DEAD in that it thrives on abundance. Abundance of characters, of story arcs, of philosophical meanderings. WALKING DEAD is a very simple story about the survival of one man and his son in a broken world, and Kirkman is constantly closing doors to focus on that. Whenever there are too many characters in the storyline, he's sure to kill them off, no matter your emotional attachment to them. INVINCIBLE, on the other hand, loves opening new doors. Kirkman introduces new story arcs even if he can't find any space to fit in further development for another ten issues. New characters are introduced almost on a per-issue basis, and even if there's no obvious significance now, you can tell they'll be important later. And characters are almost never killed, barring two or three exceptions, because what the heck - the more the merrier! Maybe that's why the first half of this volume disappointed me, because it was too focused on the Viltrumite War to explore anything else. Focus is not what I want from INVINCIBLE. I want a vast party of characters pulling a bunch of ridiculous shenanigans so that I can barely keep up.
In some respects, all that punching was necessary, and ultimately Kirkman pulls it off brilliantly. That's a theme with Kirkman - just when you think he's done all he can do, he creates a plot twist that blows your mind. While the Viltrumite War arc was a bit disappointing in itself, it sets up the future for something great. When Invincible gets back to Earth and into the normal swing of things is when things really get interesting, because it's the quirkiness of Kirkman's comics that is so intriguing. The dozens of superheroes and supervillains, the relationships (Robot-Monster Girl, Invincible-fat Atom Eve, Deborah-Omni-Man, etc.), how everyone hates the way Invincible carries them while flying.
And of course, Invincible goes through another bout of existential confusion and angst. What is the best use for a superhero? So far he has been a reactionary character - when a bad guy comes around, he beats them up. Should he be more like Atom Eve, who flew away to Africa to help starving people? And, without spoiling too much, this is where the hardcover ends, with Invincible's decision to be more proactive with his power and, of course, a moderately-effective cliffhanger to leave the reader thinking "WTF?"
INVINCIBLE seems to be the anti-WALKING DEAD in that it thrives on abundance. Abundance of characters, of story arcs, of philosophical meanderings. WALKING DEAD is a very simple story about the survival of one man and his son in a broken world, and Kirkman is constantly closing doors to focus on that. Whenever there are too many characters in the storyline, he's sure to kill them off, no matter your emotional attachment to them. INVINCIBLE, on the other hand, loves opening new doors. Kirkman introduces new story arcs even if he can't find any space to fit in further development for another ten issues. New characters are introduced almost on a per-issue basis, and even if there's no obvious significance now, you can tell they'll be important later. And characters are almost never killed, barring two or three exceptions, because what the heck - the more the merrier! Maybe that's why the first half of this volume disappointed me, because it was too focused on the Viltrumite War to explore anything else. Focus is not what I want from INVINCIBLE. I want a vast party of characters pulling a bunch of ridiculous shenanigans so that I can barely keep up.
April 24, 2013
Exciting and very interesting conclusion to the Viltrumite war. Also: bloody, bloody, gory, bloody. Not entirely unexpected but...ugh. Super interesting ethical dilemmas though. Poor Invincible.
The major "good guys" groomed to fight in the war are all male. I didn't realize it until I saw the splash page of them listening to Thadeus's "are you ready to finish this?" speech. Why, story-wise, did they all have to be male? Why no kick-butt women warriors, why? Not cool.
Also, the more I read this series, the more I feel like all the female non-villain characters are written relative to the men. All of their plotlines, with the slight exception of Monster Girl, revolve around their menfolk, whereas the menfolk have plotlines that revolve around their womenfolk AND plotlines that are independent of their womenfolk. Also not cool.
All the mental high fives to Invincible and his reaction to Eve's weight gain, and weight-related insecurities. Way to be awesome and supportive. A few high fives for Eve's salad conversation with Kate. I could have wished for a harder smackdown of Kate's awful "lose the weight for him" opinion but it was enough that Eve didn't just smile and shrug. Absolutely no high fives for the cover of issue #79 showing Eve's previous svelte look instead of her current curves. Super not cool.
The major "good guys" groomed to fight in the war are all male. I didn't realize it until I saw the splash page of them listening to Thadeus's "are you ready to finish this?" speech. Why, story-wise, did they all have to be male? Why no kick-butt women warriors, why? Not cool.
Also, the more I read this series, the more I feel like all the female non-villain characters are written relative to the men. All of their plotlines, with the slight exception of Monster Girl, revolve around their menfolk, whereas the menfolk have plotlines that revolve around their womenfolk AND plotlines that are independent of their womenfolk. Also not cool.
All the mental high fives to Invincible and his reaction to Eve's weight gain, and weight-related insecurities. Way to be awesome and supportive. A few high fives for Eve's salad conversation with Kate. I could have wished for a harder smackdown of Kate's awful "lose the weight for him" opinion but it was enough that Eve didn't just smile and shrug. Absolutely no high fives for the cover of issue #79 showing Eve's previous svelte look instead of her current curves. Super not cool.
June 9, 2019
I've gushed over this series so many times at this point that it feels redundant to do so again...but here we go. I'll try to say something new.
Kirkman does his usual fantastic job with this book. I think what's really interesting here is you have a superman level powerhouse being handled like Peter Park--paying bills, dealing with relationships, finding ways to pay for things, etc. And it's awesome.
The first-half of this volume has Invincible, Omni Man and Allen finally take off to lead the war against the remaining Viltrumites. This leads to several classic highpowered super hero throw-downs. And the conflict is over by the midpoint of the volume. Resolved in a way that I certainly never saw coming.
For me though the money portion of the book was the second-half, where Mark, having returned to earth after 10 months away, finds himself unable to simply settle back into his routine. And the story is driven by the changes that come from Mark's having been out to war, and the fall out of that sequence of stories. He's believably changing growing and in doing so Kirkman takes one of the tropes of mainstream super hero comics and handles it in the only interesting active way I've ever seen it handled. I'm super-excited to see what he does with it.
This second-half of this volume deals with what has always been my least favorite tropes in superhero comics from the big two: Proactive vs. Reactive heroes. Kirkman handles this better than anyone else by making it a character issue rather than a plot piece. He's not suddenly messing with his formula, or trying to jazz up action with a different approach, he's having Mark look at the world around him and the way he interacts with it and ask what more he could do to make it better. What he could do besides just responding to strange threats.
Kirkman does his usual fantastic job with this book. I think what's really interesting here is you have a superman level powerhouse being handled like Peter Park--paying bills, dealing with relationships, finding ways to pay for things, etc. And it's awesome.
The first-half of this volume has Invincible, Omni Man and Allen finally take off to lead the war against the remaining Viltrumites. This leads to several classic highpowered super hero throw-downs. And the conflict is over by the midpoint of the volume. Resolved in a way that I certainly never saw coming.
For me though the money portion of the book was the second-half, where Mark, having returned to earth after 10 months away, finds himself unable to simply settle back into his routine. And the story is driven by the changes that come from Mark's having been out to war, and the fall out of that sequence of stories. He's believably changing growing and in doing so Kirkman takes one of the tropes of mainstream super hero comics and handles it in the only interesting active way I've ever seen it handled. I'm super-excited to see what he does with it.
This second-half of this volume deals with what has always been my least favorite tropes in superhero comics from the big two: Proactive vs. Reactive heroes. Kirkman handles this better than anyone else by making it a character issue rather than a plot piece. He's not suddenly messing with his formula, or trying to jazz up action with a different approach, he's having Mark look at the world around him and the way he interacts with it and ask what more he could do to make it better. What he could do besides just responding to strange threats.
May 8, 2018
More heart break and bone break in this volume of Invincible. The culmination of some big storylines and a real turning point for Mark. He comes out of this volume changed in surprising ways. This continues to be a great series, and Ryan Ottley's art gets better with each volume. There are so many great characters, so many great threads running through the series. I really have no idea where things will go, yet everywhere it takes the reader makes sense with everything that's happened before. Love it. No resets here.
If you like comics, superheroes, or just good stories, you should sit down to Invincible.
If you like comics, superheroes, or just good stories, you should sit down to Invincible.
May 7, 2025
This was amazing, but something tells me that Invincible has already revealed all of its cards, which is an awkward position to be in when you're only halfway done. I expect it to continue being exciting, but no longer as innovative as its previous half was.
Hopefully I'm just being pessimistic?
Hopefully I'm just being pessimistic?
December 7, 2023
Absolutely loved this volume of Invincible. I do admit, I am going back to the paperback versions because the ultimate collection was too big and sometimes annoying to read.
Besides that, the content was amazing!
Besides that, the content was amazing!
May 2, 2025
Taking Mark to some interesting places, but ones I don’t really like. He is growing though.
July 18, 2025
Keep 👏 Eve 👏 fat 👏
November 16, 2022
Pretty good, a hater like me can't even deny it. Interested to see where it goes from here
October 2, 2016
This volume was quite weak and never took the chance of livening things up. There was way too much self development and little conflict at certain points. This felt like some of the mid way points of The Walking Dead, story being thrown at us with no purpose. Kirkman definitely sunk to mediocre at various points, villains admitting wrong doing, the giant war was not that giant, I honestly felt like throwing the book out the door. When Invincible returned home after 10 months away it hit a giant lull in the storytelling. They gave Eve extra weight, the mom left the planet and the enemy found solace on Earth. I expected great things from this volume but was let down every step of the way.
February 21, 2017
Issues 71 - 77 have the most epic action arc of any superhero title I've ever read! Omni-Man returns to get Mark and Oliver to help against a Viltrumite attack. This leads to a battle in space between the rebel Viltrumites and the ones still loyal to the empire - led by Conquest who battered Mark so viciously before. You have never seen superhero battles such as these. One thing that always seemed stupid to me was Superman going up against someone like General Zod - with military / martial art training - a guy like that should have made Superman bleed. Invincible doesn't pull any punches in such fights. Just when you think it's over, another battle comes up when Thragg, the leader of the Viltrumites enters the fray.
And the conclusion to this on Earth - it's a decision you've never seen any DC or Marvel hero make, because it would destroy their shared universe.
Pay attention to Robot and Monster Girl's disappearance.
And the conclusion to this on Earth - it's a decision you've never seen any DC or Marvel hero make, because it would destroy their shared universe.
Pay attention to Robot and Monster Girl's disappearance.
September 9, 2016
Este es posiblemente el tomo de invencible más espectacular hasta la fecha, la guerra viltrumita en todo su esplendor, grandes escenas de combate, empacho de páginas dobles, violencia y destrucción en dosis planetarias... y al final todo se resuelve de forma impredecible. Pero no acaba ahí la cosa, hay eventos inesperados que cambiarán la tierra para siempre, nuevos y viejos enemigos, personajes que sufren grandes cambios, Mark empieza a madurar y a pasar de idealista a pragmático, cambiando su relación con ciertos villanos para intentar mejorar el mundo en lugar de preocuparse sólo de hacer justicia....
Esta colección sigue siendo muy grande.
Esta colección sigue siendo muy grande.
June 9, 2021
5 stars for the art, 1 star for the female character writing.
April 27, 2021
Invincible Ultimate Collection vol 7 brings some more epic action to the series as well some pretty significant changes to the story as well.
The first half of this book is the Viltrumite War storyline, and compared to Angstrom Levy’s onslaught and the attack of Conquest in the last volume, this story arc fell a little short for me. My main gripe with this story arc is that story-wise it just felt altogether rushed. This whole series so far has felt like it’s been building up to this war with the Viltrumites, and the fact that we got it so soon in the series and that it was over in a handful of issues left this arc with more to be desired. Kirkman himself in the sketchbook in the back of this volume expressed how he wanted more time with this arc to focus on more characters and to show us the Viltrumites’ side of this fight, which I feel could have added so much more to this arc. On top of that, we got some great moments of development with a handful of characters that needed just a little more time in the spotlight.
All that said though, this arc had a lot of good to it as well. We got to see Allen and Tech Jacket pair up throughout this war and bond, and we got some great development with Nolan and Oliver as well. While I felt that more time was needed to fully appreciate the bonds and development here with these characters, I’m glad we got the little bit that we did. And Ottley really delivers on the art throughout this entire volume, but especially in the first arc. Not only does his art get more and more detailed and gory, but we get 6 page spreads throughout that are just jaw dropping. And the war ended in a way that I didn’t expect, with the remaining Viltrumites living on Earth, promising to not interfere with events on the planet (we’ll see how long that lasts).
The second half of the book was more enjoyable than the second half of most of these volumes so far. At this point, the structure of these volumes sees an intense, action-packed first half followed with a quieter, more plot-developing second half. While that’s necessarily not a bad thing, I’ve found in the past that the second half of the book feels to drag a little compared to the first. This time, however, I was just as engaged in both halves of the book due to the story development here.
Things get heavy as we learn that Atom Eve had an abortion while Mark was away, gained some weight, and just hasn’t felt like herself since he left. This adds a lot of depth to the character, and Kirkman chooses to do some heavy choices with Eve that not many other comics would do with a character like her. We also see Mark questioning his role as a hero, and wondering if he can do more to better the world than punch bad guys. I like that we continue to see this character grow in similar, yet different ways. We’ve seen him rise and become a hero, we’ve seen him question his methods and get a little edgier, and now as he continues to yearn to be the best hero he can be, this volume ends with him trying to do good without violence, and make some questionable decisions, regardless of how good the intent is.
Seven volumes in and Invincible continues to be a great, groundbreaking series. This volume left a little to be desired when it mattered most, which is why I decided to give it 4 stars, because while I like it, I found myself enjoying the previous volume even more. That said, if I could have given this volume 5 stars and volume 6 six stars I would have. Regardless, I continue to enjoy this series with each volume, and it keeps me anticipating on what’s to come.
The first half of this book is the Viltrumite War storyline, and compared to Angstrom Levy’s onslaught and the attack of Conquest in the last volume, this story arc fell a little short for me. My main gripe with this story arc is that story-wise it just felt altogether rushed. This whole series so far has felt like it’s been building up to this war with the Viltrumites, and the fact that we got it so soon in the series and that it was over in a handful of issues left this arc with more to be desired. Kirkman himself in the sketchbook in the back of this volume expressed how he wanted more time with this arc to focus on more characters and to show us the Viltrumites’ side of this fight, which I feel could have added so much more to this arc. On top of that, we got some great moments of development with a handful of characters that needed just a little more time in the spotlight.
All that said though, this arc had a lot of good to it as well. We got to see Allen and Tech Jacket pair up throughout this war and bond, and we got some great development with Nolan and Oliver as well. While I felt that more time was needed to fully appreciate the bonds and development here with these characters, I’m glad we got the little bit that we did. And Ottley really delivers on the art throughout this entire volume, but especially in the first arc. Not only does his art get more and more detailed and gory, but we get 6 page spreads throughout that are just jaw dropping. And the war ended in a way that I didn’t expect, with the remaining Viltrumites living on Earth, promising to not interfere with events on the planet (we’ll see how long that lasts).
The second half of the book was more enjoyable than the second half of most of these volumes so far. At this point, the structure of these volumes sees an intense, action-packed first half followed with a quieter, more plot-developing second half. While that’s necessarily not a bad thing, I’ve found in the past that the second half of the book feels to drag a little compared to the first. This time, however, I was just as engaged in both halves of the book due to the story development here.
Things get heavy as we learn that Atom Eve had an abortion while Mark was away, gained some weight, and just hasn’t felt like herself since he left. This adds a lot of depth to the character, and Kirkman chooses to do some heavy choices with Eve that not many other comics would do with a character like her. We also see Mark questioning his role as a hero, and wondering if he can do more to better the world than punch bad guys. I like that we continue to see this character grow in similar, yet different ways. We’ve seen him rise and become a hero, we’ve seen him question his methods and get a little edgier, and now as he continues to yearn to be the best hero he can be, this volume ends with him trying to do good without violence, and make some questionable decisions, regardless of how good the intent is.
Seven volumes in and Invincible continues to be a great, groundbreaking series. This volume left a little to be desired when it mattered most, which is why I decided to give it 4 stars, because while I like it, I found myself enjoying the previous volume even more. That said, if I could have given this volume 5 stars and volume 6 six stars I would have. Regardless, I continue to enjoy this series with each volume, and it keeps me anticipating on what’s to come.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 26, 2017
I'm giving the art 5 stars because in some places it's flat-out amazing. The writing waffles around 2 stars for me.
MILD SPOILERS
This whole arc was about taking the long view and not simply punching your way out of situations. Invincible comes to realize that Dinosaurus was right, even if his methods were wrong, and cuts a down-on-his-luck inventor some slack after the guy robs a bank... and then sells his tech to another criminal who then robs a bank, one of the zap-zap heroes who blames Invincible for the deaths of his family realizes he has some culpability, and the core of this story, the Viltrumite War, ends on a similar note after Invincible, Oliver and Allen blow up their planet. The leader of the Viltrumites takes the surviving members of his race to Earth where their long-range plan is to interbreed with humans in order to resurrect the Viltrumite race.
It's couched as growing up and taking a fresh perspective that incorporates shades of gray, but Mark is basically perpetuating the same problems, just via different means. Maybe that will turn out good or bad, but there are not hints given just yet.
However, despite Mark's apparent maturation, he's still not working well with others. He's still a loose cannon, going his own way, and often not communicating with Eve his feelings or plans. I pretty much hate it when characters don't include others, because it's a cheap way to spring a story surprise on readers. Mark not informing Eve about his plan makes sense because it gives her actual deniability, but it's the kind of short-term thinking that will only damage his relationship with her. So wing that he should have figured out by now, with all of his new-found adultiness. (Which is now a word. You're welcome.)
So, yeah, the writing is uneven. But that art, mm-mm! So good! Ottley kills it page after page.
MILD SPOILERS
This whole arc was about taking the long view and not simply punching your way out of situations. Invincible comes to realize that Dinosaurus was right, even if his methods were wrong, and cuts a down-on-his-luck inventor some slack after the guy robs a bank... and then sells his tech to another criminal who then robs a bank, one of the zap-zap heroes who blames Invincible for the deaths of his family realizes he has some culpability, and the core of this story, the Viltrumite War, ends on a similar note after Invincible, Oliver and Allen blow up their planet. The leader of the Viltrumites takes the surviving members of his race to Earth where their long-range plan is to interbreed with humans in order to resurrect the Viltrumite race.
It's couched as growing up and taking a fresh perspective that incorporates shades of gray, but Mark is basically perpetuating the same problems, just via different means. Maybe that will turn out good or bad, but there are not hints given just yet.
However, despite Mark's apparent maturation, he's still not working well with others. He's still a loose cannon, going his own way, and often not communicating with Eve his feelings or plans. I pretty much hate it when characters don't include others, because it's a cheap way to spring a story surprise on readers. Mark not informing Eve about his plan makes sense because it gives her actual deniability, but it's the kind of short-term thinking that will only damage his relationship with her. So wing that he should have figured out by now, with all of his new-found adultiness. (Which is now a word. You're welcome.)
So, yeah, the writing is uneven. But that art, mm-mm! So good! Ottley kills it page after page.
August 12, 2021
The first half dealt with the Viltrumite War and took place almost exclusively off-Earth. Nolan reveals himself to Debbie and Oliver, and while Oliver is thrilled to see his father, Debbie is justifiably distraught to see the man who betrayed her. Nolan takes his two sons to fight his kin and there is a funny Star Trek: TNG joke (although at their expense- please don't mock my beloved TNG!) and soon enough they encounter the Viltrumites. Epic war scenes that had six awesome two-page spreads to convey the chaos of space fighting. They finally reach a stale-mate as the two sides can't seem to win- but the Viltrumite retreat does not mean Invincible and his allies won. A Sophie's choice is made in the end to Mark's sorrow. But they are alive, ready to battle another day...
Now that the Viltrumite invasion is on the back-burner Nolan tries to reconcile with his estranged wife and Debbie seems open to it, so they both leave for outer space to see if they can salvage their relationship and also to visit Oliver who is recovering from the war. This leaves Mark and Eve to work through their issues after Mark's long absence, and Mark learns of a hard decision that Eve had to make while he was gone. Mark had previously been furious at Cecil for making hard morally grey decisions, but now he too makes certain choices with villains that may pay off in the long-term, even if it doesn't look good in the short-term.
Robot (now called Rex) and Monster Girl return from the dimension they transported to and come back grown up and are obviously reeling from some trauma that occurred to them while there. Mark and Eve visit married couple Immortal and Kate who are now parents, and I have to say Kate is a b*tch! What does Immortal see in her? There is an odd side plot about Eve gaining weight and we find out that William and Rick are now dating.
Now that the Viltrumite invasion is on the back-burner Nolan tries to reconcile with his estranged wife and Debbie seems open to it, so they both leave for outer space to see if they can salvage their relationship and also to visit Oliver who is recovering from the war. This leaves Mark and Eve to work through their issues after Mark's long absence, and Mark learns of a hard decision that Eve had to make while he was gone. Mark had previously been furious at Cecil for making hard morally grey decisions, but now he too makes certain choices with villains that may pay off in the long-term, even if it doesn't look good in the short-term.
Robot (now called Rex) and Monster Girl return from the dimension they transported to and come back grown up and are obviously reeling from some trauma that occurred to them while there. Mark and Eve visit married couple Immortal and Kate who are now parents, and I have to say Kate is a b*tch! What does Immortal see in her? There is an odd side plot about Eve gaining weight and we find out that William and Rick are now dating.
March 30, 2018
Skip this volume.
After the excellent pacing and cool narrative beats of volume six, this volume begins with "The Viltrumite War" a chance for Kirkman to extend the gore of the Invincible/Omni-Man fight in volume one, and the Invincible/Conquest/Atom Eve fight in volume five from a single issue's worth of fighting to seven issues' worth of fighting. If you read volume six there aren't many surprises as two of the characters spent part of that book collecting various artifacts to bring down the Viltrumite empire, and here we just see them use them to varying degrees of success. It's about two cool issues worth of story expanded to what feels like fifty issues. The end result is interesting and worth knowing about but I'm sure there will be a recapversation in volume eight that will reexplain it.
"Get Smart" also suffers from excruciating pacing, and terrible, preachy narrative beats. They're all things that I agree with, and am glad to see in comics but man does Kirkman botch each reveal and unfolding consequence.
This is the wettest fart of the series. I hope we find out years from now that Kirkman didn't even write this, and that he quickly sketched outlines between counting piles of Walking Dead money (which he has totally earned) and passed it off to a really eager college student who just discovered slam poetry and the Huffington Post.
I can't recommend this. I was going to say I recommend it for people who love the art on Invincible who could skip over the words, but there's the issue of Fat Eve in the "Get Smart" story. Body positivity being another noble goal that this collection reaches for but falls far short of reaching.
After the excellent pacing and cool narrative beats of volume six, this volume begins with "The Viltrumite War" a chance for Kirkman to extend the gore of the Invincible/Omni-Man fight in volume one, and the Invincible/Conquest/Atom Eve fight in volume five from a single issue's worth of fighting to seven issues' worth of fighting. If you read volume six there aren't many surprises as two of the characters spent part of that book collecting various artifacts to bring down the Viltrumite empire, and here we just see them use them to varying degrees of success. It's about two cool issues worth of story expanded to what feels like fifty issues. The end result is interesting and worth knowing about but I'm sure there will be a recapversation in volume eight that will reexplain it.
"Get Smart" also suffers from excruciating pacing, and terrible, preachy narrative beats. They're all things that I agree with, and am glad to see in comics but man does Kirkman botch each reveal and unfolding consequence.
This is the wettest fart of the series. I hope we find out years from now that Kirkman didn't even write this, and that he quickly sketched outlines between counting piles of Walking Dead money (which he has totally earned) and passed it off to a really eager college student who just discovered slam poetry and the Huffington Post.
I can't recommend this. I was going to say I recommend it for people who love the art on Invincible who could skip over the words, but there's the issue of Fat Eve in the "Get Smart" story. Body positivity being another noble goal that this collection reaches for but falls far short of reaching.
November 27, 2018
Siete tomos de éstos gigantes, más de ochenta números USA y una colección que no hace más que mejorar y mejorar tomo tras tomo. Es increíble la habilidad que hay en éste comic para hacer una historia de superhéroes para adultos con un nivel altísimo y no perderlo en ningún momento.
En el tochaco que nos ocupa hoy tenemos la guerra contra el imperio viltrumita ya para empezar. Es una especie de fin de fiesta simplemente espectacular que te tiene en vilo un número tras otro, con muchas páginas dobles para enmarcar y una tensión palpable que no se reduce hasta el final. Gran saga.
Y luego la vida sigue, con la vuelta a la Tierra del protagonista y un evidente cambio de mentalidad sobre lo que ha estado haciendo y lo que tendría que hacer para conseguir ser más efectivo o simplemente hacer lo correcto.
Me encanta ver que el héroe ya no lo ve todo blanco o negro, y que está entrando en una escala de grises que le lleva a hacer algo inesperado al final del volumen. Es una evolución lógica, fruto de todo lo que le ha sucedido, de las veces que ha tenido que ceder y de las veces en las que no lo hizo.
Vamos, que qué más se puede pedir? (Final de saga cósmica y cambios en el protagonista). Yo creo que nada.
Un comic de superhéroes que hay que leerse a poco que te hayan gustado alguna vez, sabiendo que siempre va a mejor y que quizás lo más flojito sea el arranque. Un comic distinto, con una calidad a prueba de bombas y que encima viene acompañado de un dibujo espectacular, con personalidad y que eleva el nivel del guion.
En la contraportada se publicitan como “quizás el mejor comic de superhéroes del Universo” y no se quedan cortos...
En el tochaco que nos ocupa hoy tenemos la guerra contra el imperio viltrumita ya para empezar. Es una especie de fin de fiesta simplemente espectacular que te tiene en vilo un número tras otro, con muchas páginas dobles para enmarcar y una tensión palpable que no se reduce hasta el final. Gran saga.
Y luego la vida sigue, con la vuelta a la Tierra del protagonista y un evidente cambio de mentalidad sobre lo que ha estado haciendo y lo que tendría que hacer para conseguir ser más efectivo o simplemente hacer lo correcto.
Me encanta ver que el héroe ya no lo ve todo blanco o negro, y que está entrando en una escala de grises que le lleva a hacer algo inesperado al final del volumen. Es una evolución lógica, fruto de todo lo que le ha sucedido, de las veces que ha tenido que ceder y de las veces en las que no lo hizo.
Vamos, que qué más se puede pedir? (Final de saga cósmica y cambios en el protagonista). Yo creo que nada.
Un comic de superhéroes que hay que leerse a poco que te hayan gustado alguna vez, sabiendo que siempre va a mejor y que quizás lo más flojito sea el arranque. Un comic distinto, con una calidad a prueba de bombas y que encima viene acompañado de un dibujo espectacular, con personalidad y que eleva el nivel del guion.
En la contraportada se publicitan como “quizás el mejor comic de superhéroes del Universo” y no se quedan cortos...
April 29, 2022
I think the volume is good but like half of it as the vultrimites have decided that they want to stay on earth and live within the humans so they can build their empire because if they fight with the coalition of planets they would lose for sure but they would have enough time to destroy the earth so they either accept or they get completely destroyed eventually getting destroyed by the coalition as they are to far away to help so mark and Omni man had no other choice but to accept the terms they later told them they will mate with the humans as mating with them will make their children much stronger than ever would because there DNA is so pure when combined supposedly so they won't destroy the planet or hurt it at all and the war is over eventually the author is changing mark to be a normal hero again kate and mark relationship got better until mark realized she got fatter because she was depressed and started eating but thatś because she was pregnant and decided to aboart her child because mark went off to fight a war with his father and brother which almost died his jaw and arm got punched off that's how strong the vultrimite leader was but not because he is strong but because he is smart he knew his 87 soldiers he had was a challenge much stronger than earth and its heroes like mark and omniman but even if he detryed them coalition is still a major threat so it was better to surrender I saw a peek to volume 8 he fighting electric man again the guy who killed his family on accident for somereason I found it sad but funny as he made a whole plan to kill mark but killed his family instead rip to his wife and son.
April 4, 2025
OHH MY GOD. By far the BEST invincible issues to date. i enjoyed reading this volume, actual CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FROM MARK, FINALLY, the story and battle was amazing. ill admit, the whole viltrumite resolution with thragg was a LITTLE bit lukewarm, but an interesting way of ending the war. the story telling and usage of panels was SO good, the art was amazing. love the full page spreads, definitely my favorite. this is my first 5/5 comic, so that says something. i also enjoy the plot twists and what not, rehabilitation of villains rather than continuously going back and fourth between villain + jail + escaping + villain cycle again.
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