Mark's mother Deborah Grayson, one of my favorite side-characters, is a "normal" human being and homemaker. But growing up, he had to keep a big secret-he is the son of the most powerful superhero on Earth, Omni-man, whose alter ego is a novelist by the name of Nolan Grayson. Mark Grayson, aka the superhero Invincible, is a typical high-school student from a middle class family. Add to that the clean, four colour art of co-creator Cory Walker, and later, Ryan Ottley, and you have a visual treat of 144 issues! More on the writing and artwork later.
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Kirkman is also the creator of The Walking Dead (Image Comics) graphic novel, whose TV adaptation used to be one of the top shows going shoulder-to-shoulder with Game of Thrones. There are shocking betrayals, weird alien races, unexpected and unlikely team-ups, and brutal murders and deaths that will leave you thinking, "I did not see this one coming!" The writer manages to mix together a winning formula of coming-of-age, science fiction, action, and superhero-soap opera. This is where writer Robert Kirkman shines the most-he twists and turns and bends this age-old genre in such a way that it leaves one's jaw dropped. But don't be fooled, because things start going sideways from issue seven. But here's a heads up: the first six issues might seem a bit of a casual read.
But what about the collateral damage during that fight which causes a building to drop on a crowds of people, leading to casualties? Even though a lot of similar narratives cleverly ignore these ugly consequences, Invincible often seems to zoom in on that and remind us that the daily life of a superpowered being can often lead to irreversible and grim ramifications that cannot always be avoided. When a superhero punches a supervillain, we all cheer. But the way the writer zooms in and focuses on micro level issues related to all these characters is something that makes this graphic novel unique, super fun, and often scary to read. There are threats, starting from a crime in a dark alley to the kinds that can destroy the world.
We've got a world filled with superheroes and supervillains. The set up and basic premise is nothing unprecedented.
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