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Well that isn't helping it any either, I can deal with it occasionally, but issue after issue of it is too much
I'm also a little confused by the Viltrimite council. Granted, we've never seen them, but I'm wondering why Conquest isn't on it. Maybe only Viltrimites too wounded to fight again are put on there?
Anyway, here's the thing from issue 63. Spoilers ahead.
I never got why, with Atom Eve's powers, she couldn't heal people. They seem to be able to do about anything else, you'd think that resetting bone would be a piece of cake.
It's explained in the Atom Eve mini-series, basically she can't tamper with people and biological crap like that because of mental blocks placed on her powers to stop her being the most powerful being in the world. She overcame it once in the mini-series after they killed her biological parents and hasn't been able to use it since.
Personally i thought that was how this was going to end, with Mark getting the absolute shit kicked out of him by Conquest and then having Eve turn up and turn his brain into sand or something, sadly Kirkman is still on his Gorn high and we got what was in those spoilers.
i think i'm done with invincible
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Part of me admires Kirkman for not backing away from depicting violence in a sensible, "realistic" way, but part of me's bothered by making the death of a long-standing character so exploitative.
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At this point, I consider it a minor victory that conquest didn't actually rip Oliver in half.
However, maybe she really did just fake her death somehow, in which case everything makes sense.
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Then have Cecil teleport in, put a hand on Conquests shoulder and teleport half of him out. Then we don't need to kill any more of the supporting cast and Kirkman gets to splash around in the pretty red goop.
Invincible has always been about juxtaposing fantasy and reality, cartoonish art with extreme violence. It's part of the appeal.
I agree
True, but I know that personally, at least, I don't have a problem with the extreme gore as much as I do with the fact that it's been 3 or 4 issues now that have consisted entirely of just turning major characters into pulp. No real plot advancement to speak of, just massacring an entire cast for the purpose of demonstrating how badass this one villain is.
Yeah, it is kind of weird considering if she really wanted to kill the guy she could have just turned the oxygen in his lungs to lead or something.
it's
The line is awesome, Mark is about to go so apeshit that he's making up superpowers for himself. Tubular!
It's probably wishful thinking.
I really hope you're being sarcastic because that is an awful line.
i mean, i guess i understand the over-saturation argument but at the same time look at the effect kirkman has elicited out of you. kind of a
How many big storylines over the course of Invincible has he ended this way? How many has he ended this way in Walking Dead? And he did something similar with Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Team-Up and pretty much everything he's ever done except for Ant Man. He needs to learn that you don't have to have a character be horribly killed or mutilated or whatever for it to have an impact. And he also needs to learn that every death scene doesn't need to be a horrendously graphic bloodbath. It's old, and it's hurting his stories.
Between the current arc in Invincible and reading The Destroyer I'm left with the uncomfortable feeling that i've just paid to watch Kirkman masturbate over pictures of car crashes.
I dunno. It's not so much that it's elicited a real effect from me as I'm just a little disappointed and fed up with the quality of the story recently. If anything, it's a testament to how good Invincible usually is. I expect crap like this from Ultimatum, but it's just disappointing here. And even if the deaths of
My problem isn't Eve's death. I think the brutality was appropriate. What I don't like is how lame the Conquest arc is in general, so far. We'll see if it improves, but I doubt it.
I'm wary in The Walking Dead right now, because I don't think we need another bloodbath arc so soon after the previous one.
And now he's doing his Doomsday/Genocide/Onslaught/Monarch story; a massive threat comes out of nowhere at the worst possible time, and over several issues has a cataclysmic fight with the protagonist and his supporting cast. That's basically the Doomsday storyline in a nutshell, and hews pretty closely to a lot of other stories. To me, having supporting cast members in Invincible get pulped is no different than when Doomsday put Guy Gardner and Blue Beetle into comas, except that Kirkman stuck to the rules of his universe, and didn't have anyone suddenly develop invincibility to survive the attack.
Part of the reason I read Invincible is to see Kirkman's take on the superhero genre, so I can't really bring myself to get upset now, when he explores another superhero trope;
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If you're upset about
To everyone upset about the violence, I'm sorry, but what comic book series do you think you've been reading?
Also complaints are always valid as long as they aren't completely goddamn retarded
God forbid people complain about a book
No they should just quietly drop it
So yes, if you don't like it - don't buy it. Or retroactively don't buy it because the book hasn't changed one iota.
Maybe people are starting to get sick of it!
I'm not saying that I don't have the occasional complaint about books that I enjoy, but if you have a serious problem with a title and you're not getting any enjoyment from it anymore then quit picking it up.
But fuck it
You won't read it
You'll just rationalize more