Invincible: The Ultimate Collection Volume 4

Invincible is the story of second-generation superhero. For years his father Omniman was hailed as the world's greatest hero but eventually was revealed as an alien invader out to prepare the world for conquest. Now Invincible is trying both to live up to his father's reputation and to redeem his father's legacy. In this volume Robert Kirkman chooses to build on his existing characters rather than throw too many new things at the reader. Invincible must face relationship problems, an invasion from Mars, the return of his father's people and a new brother who's growing up way, way too fast. As usual everything is handled in a very grown-up way. Whether Mark is breaking up with girlfriend or fighting a life and death battle it's clear the Kirkman and Ottley have give thought to what will happen and what will make sense. The little touches really make this special. While having lunch with his mom Mark the college student has a big burger while his mother picks at a salad. Later when Mark catches his best friend trying on his costume he flies home and asks his mom to wash it. Twice. In terms of both art and story Invincible is a cut above most comics and certainly the best old-fashioned superhero story of this decade.

Before I talk about this particular book, here are a few things you should know about Invincible: * Invincible is written by Robert Kirkman and was created by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker. * The character first appeared in an issue of Tech Jacket - another comic written by Robert Kirkman - in November of 2002. The original issues of Tech Jacket are collected in this book: Tech Jacket Volume 1: The Boy From Earth (v. 1) * Invincible is published by Image Comics - a company built by and dedicated to comic book writers and illustrators. Creators who publish their work at Image retain full ownership of all properties they create. Because of this, in Image comics you will regularly see things that don't occur in books published by the "Big 2" - Marvel and DC. Namely, characters that die tend to stay dead, and the overall voice of the characters remains pretty consistent, and continuity actually has some meaning. * Invincible is one of the most popular comics published by Image. This comic and other comics written by Robert Kirkman have had such strong sales that Image invited Robert Kirkman to share in ownership of the company. He accepted. * Invincible is an on-going comic series that has been published on nearly a monthly basis since 2003. * Invincible story arcs have been collected into many TPBs. The first 13 of these all share titles with sit-com television shows from the 1980's. * Invincible exists in a shared universe with other popular Image comic book characters, including Spawn, Savage Dragon, Superpatriot, Brit, Youngblood, Shadowhawk and others. * Invincible's costume design features a large "i" on the front of it - mirroring the company logo of Image comics. One other note: I will attempt to avoid spoilers as much as possible in this review. I enjoyed this book and feel you would best enjoy it if I don't tell you the entire plot summary in this review! This book collects the eighth and nineth story arcs of the Invincible comic book, which are also collected, separately, in the books Invincible Volume 8: My Favorite Martian (v. 8) and Invincible (Book 9): Out Of This World (v. 9) . This Invincible collection is the best of the first four, and introduces my favorite "villains" of the series: The Reanimen. The Reanimen are cybernetic creations of D.A. Sinclair - another scientist-type guy that you'll see more of in the future. The Reanimen are some of the toughest opponents that Invincible has faced, yet, and one of them is his friend! This collection also introduces "The Lizard League" - a knock-off of Marvel's Serpent Society. (Though many of Kirkman's characters are very similar to the more popular characters in the Marvel and Dc Universe, it doesn't bother me as much as I first thought it would.) The Lizard League throws down with the Guardians of the Globe, while the other heroes of Earth try to fight off the Sequid invasion of Earth. Lots of action throughout the entire book, and Ryan Ottley does a great job bringint it to us with his pencils. This volume does not disappoint! If you liked the first three volumes, you'll surely enjoy this one!

I heard of many stuff that newer version ibn books are changing the book to be sleeves and have the book dust jacket art cover on the book hard cover it self, I have purchase 9 books from amazon of this series and only got one without the dust jacket art. if you do get one without dustjacket and have the hard cover art newer version ask for a return and be specific and keep pushing it took me to return book twice.

A great gift for teenage boys and girls alike. Nice hard cover with beautiful artwork with inside. My son loves to read and can read through one of these books in a week. The quality is also great and will last a long time.

It's a good story

Perfect condition and one of my favorite comics! Don't need to worry about the whole comic being damaged thanks to hardback.

Came in perfect condition, well packaged. Delivered quickly.

Excelente parte de mi colección privada

Todo en perfecto estado sin ningún daño y justo como debe de ser súper recomendado

Conheça a épica jornada do viltrumita chamado Invencível desde a sua infância até sua maturidade! Uma das várias releituras do mito Superman que merecem ser conhecidas! Uma coleção de 12 volumes que reúne as 144 edições da saga que tem final!

Great read

Present for my son and he was very happy with his

Great graphics