This is it, the moment where the series turns. When your friends talk about how great Invincible is, this is what they are referring to. The book transforms itself from teenage superhero drama to earth-shattering revelation upon revelation. And it's so well done. Mark's fight is just gut-wrenching. Yes, there are still those fun moments. One of Kirkman's best gags is in here, when Mark meets the creator of his favorite comic book.

The first two volumes felt kind of slow, but at this point the story takes and I quote "a drastic turn for the worse" in a good way..

With the Guardians of the Globe dead, we’re gonna have tryouts for a new superhero team! Also, Mark discovers the shocking truth behind his dad - he was never “Superman”, he was more like “Zod”!The main part of this third Invincible volume is a ton of exposition from Mark’s dad, Omni-Man, a reveal I thought was pretty good - until I tried to follow the reasoning behind it all and, wow, was it confusing! So, unlike Superman whose powers change with different suns, Viltrumites’ (Omni-Man and Invin...

Well here we go, this is the volume that completes this charming series' transition from great to greatly great.All is revealed re: the deaths of the Guardians of the Globe, and Mark is forced to grow up pretty fast. As always the character design and colour palette make for delightful visuals to accompany a compelling story.If you haven't started in on this series yet, I highly recommend jumping on board from the start so this volume's emotional payload hits home.

And this is it. The defining moment the REST of us freaked out about at the end of the first season of the tv show, all here for us to see in its original comic glory.Talk about messed up.BUT. Even though this is nearly as good as the cartoon adaptation, it's the DETAILS that are added that make the show THAT much better than the comic.Yes, this is one of those rare examples where the show outdoes the original material and it never goes off the rails. The show intensifies the core and the feel a...

What I Liked : It's strange that I always start with "what I liked" , what to do when you only have "things you liked" to talk about ? because this is it ! This IS IT! The Issue where I can't find any thing that I "didn't Like".Up until this point in the Invincible comics , the story was all about a coming of age story for the titular character , with a satirical look into the world of superhero comics . It was all a fresh , joy filled new representation in the superhero comics genre .Then

This is when my love for this series truly began. Up until now it was fun, cute, coming of age story. Now...now we get into the drama. The dark side of it all. And damn is it sweeeeeet! "Dad?" UGH that part gets me every single time. This is the issue Omni-man finally shows his true self. Mark at first listens, tries to grasp it all, but in the end refuses to see it the way his father does. Humans are not to be slaves, they are to make their own future, and Mark will fight for us. Even if it mea...

This series has really hit it's stride. The first volume was so bland/generic I can't help but think it was done on purpose to create some contrast for Kirkman to flip the genre on it's head. One of the main reasons I pick this series is I was looking for a huge run. Kirkman really likes his long running stories maybe I'll finish Walking dead off some day also.

What will you have after five hundred years?!You dad. I'd still have you. Second read: 1/3/20I'M BUMPING THIS UP TO 4.5 STARS AND ROUNDING IT UP TO 5!I LOVE THIS VOLUME!!!!! I MISS THESE CHARACTERS, HOW HAVE I NOT FINISHED THIS SERIES?! The last three issues here, ugh, so good.Original review:4.25 Stars.First reaction: Well... shit! shit shit shiiiiiit.I want to write so much about this volume because it was amazing, because it changed the whole direction of the story, but I won't 'cause it'

Okay, I'm fully on-board now. Robert Kirkman doesn't hang about here, delivering an exceptional turn in the story which has much promise for the future. I'm fully invested in Mark's story, and am loving the humour, with Bi-Plane's cameo being one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

To be truthful, the reason I keep reading this book is that the hardcovers are really pretty and easily available at the library. I do tend to like the supervillain plots, but find the relationship stuff to be tedious ashell. WHICH personality-less girl should the self-centered hero get with?There's a lot to admire about this book. Unfortunately, I kept getting distracted by the way that the author is running a clinic in how to fail the Bechdel test (two women having a conversation about somethi...

And here comes the twist! I like it a lot - it elevates the story above the usual teen superhero drama.

Now we're talking! The pacing is still a little too fast for my liking, but this is when the fun truly begins. Everything from this point forward is gold. It blows me away how good a job the show did of adapting this stuff. in many ways, it was better. I can't wait to see how well they handle the rest of the source material coming up.P.S. Seth Rogen as Allen the Alien is the best casting ever.

THIS! This is the reason I picked this book up, apparently. I had friends raving to me about how much I would love it and...I do. I'm hooked now. The way the reveal is done is excellent. The aftermath, the battle, all of it is the right level of intensity. I think Kirkman really portrayed the difficulty of the situation quite well. Each is convinced the other is wrong based on their own history. Each believes the other disagrees only because they haven't had enough time to see it from the other

Oh boy, A whole new direction for our hero! Things get real!

I loved turn of events in this volume.

The Guardians are dead! What next for Invincible and his fellow young heroes, will they be asked to fill the gap? And what will Mark do when the truth is laid out in front of him! It was around this part of the series when I know that there was a lot more to it than the first volume indicated. Collecting #9=13. Getting better now with 7 out of 12.

This is when the book gets interesting. World: Solid art that still sets the tone wonderfully. When this book needed to get heavy the art really stepped up. The world building is good. It's still very intimate and tied to Mark but the scope got bigger in a good way. Story: The story takes a turn that sets this story up for awesome drama. This was when the book took hold of me last time and the turn is good. It's an interesting choice and the teen drama still gets good but the extra layer makes f...

This edition of INVINCIBLE has picked the story up a bit. It's still moving really slow for being 13 issues deep into the series, and I'm still perturbed by the use of repeating panels, but finally some of the plot is revealing itself to the reader, and I can honestly say Kirkman dropped a pretty darn good and unexpected surprise in "Perfect Strangers." After having fallen to two stars with the last collection ("Eight is Enough"), this series is now back up to a solid three stars. One of the rea...

Hmm . . . 3.5/5.0. I would much rather have this drastic change be revealed more, well, drastically.