
You can be pretty sure Mark’s going to survive whatever’s thrown at him, although there are occasions in volume two where that’s not a certainty either, but throughout the series and well beyond what’s collected here, anyone else is fair game for a premature demise or startling change.Īlso excellent is Kirkman’s creation of a super-powered supporting cast and villains. There’s no compulsion to ensure however much things may change, they essentially remain the same, and real progress occurs at a clip. One obvious enabling feature is Invincible not being tied to any franchise.

We now know Robert Kirkman as a consistently inventive writer over several ongoing series, but knowing that and little more about Invincible still means anyone picking this up is due for some massive surprises even if they’ve read superhero comics since childhood. This isn’t unexpected as his father is Earth’s most powerful superhero, an equivalent to Superman, and it was predicted Mark would follow in his footsteps. This weighty graphic novel begins with likeable teenager Mark Grayson, discovering he’s developing super powers.
