Comic Review: Invincible 59

this is a stand alone issue so it is a good one to review.

first off a little back history. i love this comic, i didn't manage to get on board right at the start of the series but it has won me over.

its about a young boy (at first) named mark who's father (omni-man) is his worlds greatest hero (Ala superman) he comes from another world in order to protect ours.

so mark grows up knowing one day he will develop powers like his father's (maybe not as strong as he is half human)

one day while working at the burger place after high school he launches a bag of garbage into orbit (it lands a few issues latter i think in Russia)

he starts to develop more powers and starts training with his father and becomes the hero Invincible.

only there is a slight problem, Omni-man was actually sent to earth to conquer it, he has just been having fun playing hero for all these years, but he has started killing other heroes.

Mark disgusted with his fathers actions confronts him and they have an all out super brawl. the kind of comic legend.

in this fight much damage is caused to the world.

that leads us into this issue (well besides teh 50 issues in the middle).

during there fight there was casualty's and one man, Scott, lost someone very dear to him, his sister Jessica.

He blames Invincible and is convinced that he and Omni-man staged the whole thing to endure Invincible to the public after Omni-man was outed.

he is a scientist and steals new technology from his work in order to bust his existing energy absorption and manipulation powers to a level where he can confront Invincible. thus becoming POWERPLEX (they can't all be good names)

the genius (mmm meatballs) of this issue is Scott's relationship with his wife and son.

His wife is completely supportive of his choice to fight Invincible and actually gets mad when he goes looking for him with out telling her so she could be there to watch.

after a few failed attempts to coax Invincible out (he keeps getting second rate heroes) by 'attacking' (all he does is destroy some cars and such) the public he finally hatches a plan to 'kidnap' his wife and son and hold them hostage till Invincible shows up.

Finaly he arrives and they fight, Scott holds his own quite well, but ends up getting so worked up that he over uses his powers and Kills his own wife and son. turning the story from an emotional tale of loss to a devastating lesson in reality. though Scott misses the lesson and now blames Invincible for the death of his wife and son along with that of his sister.

the story has little face time for our favourite teen alien hero but is both humours and deeply emotional.