“I must’ve read a lot further into this series than I thought originally, because I definitely made it this far and then some.
I picked this one up because last year I re-read and finally finished Walking Dead, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it and how good the straight-through experience was. I figured, why not do the same thing with Invincible? I kind of left that in the same place, not too far from the end I dropped off, but there was still a ways to go.
Invincible is good. I don’t know if I’m as smitten as I was before, but it’s a solid book, and it’s definitely one I would recommend to people who maybe want to read a superhero book and haven’t done one before because it goes over a lot of superhero tropes and ideas, it’s a bit more modern than trying to do that with, you know, Batman or something, and I think it does a pretty good job of the whole secret identity, Betty or Veronica, Spider-Man being a lovable loser thing that happens in a lot of comics.
It condenses a lot of that good comics stuff into one title, so it’s pretty accessible for most readers.
Plus the art is really bright and colorful, and I think because it’s so clean, the readability is a little higher than something like Arkham Asylum or a Frank Miller book or something.
These compendiums though, woof, they’re goddamn cinder blocks. Seriously I read this thing with a pillow on my lap to support it because I guess I’m a grandpa now. The only way to read Invincible is to get strong. No weaklings are going to be able to manage this sucker.
One of these days an Omnibus or some shit is going to fall on some kids head and kill him. Which is not me complaining, I mean, how many kids have pulled TVS down on their heads? But it’s going to happen, and I’m very curious what that murderous title is going to be…my money is on something like a Strangers in Paradise huge collection or something. That’d be on a top shelf where the kids can’t get to it, right? And then that poor fucker is going to have to explain it. Oh, or Elfquest. That’d be a solid one. That’s got a thick collection, too, and everyone is going to be like, “Get a load of this fucking weirdo and his elf shit.””