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I've been reading Invincible for a while, but with all of the frequent cameos by other Image superheroes I decided to track the ones down and read some stories about them. I found out that quite a few of Image's titles in the last few years are connected and are part of one universe, so I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread about this new fledgling universe.
The Characters
Invincible
Well....There's not much to Capes, they are a corporate superhero group, with pay and health insurance. They make frequent cameos in Invincible and made a few in Brit. They are currently back-up stories in the Monthlies of Invincible.
Tech Jacket
Seeing as there is no Wiki article for me to rip from, I don't know much about Tech Jacket. It's a manga, the main character(Zack Thompson) was given alien power armor, and he made a cameo in a huge battle in Invincible. Yep, that's all I know.
Possible Upcoming Titles
The Astounding Wolf-Man
Well there you have it, discuss away.
UPDATE:
Yes, that is Brit fighting a Tyrannosaurus. Yes that is an announcment of a ongoing. Yes this is a month old, so sue me.
The Characters
Invincible
SuperpatriotWikipedia wrote:Mark Grayson is a teenage superhero who calls himself Invincible. He was a normal high school senior with a normal part-time job and otherwise normal life, except his father Nolan is the superhero Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. At the age of 17, Mark begins to display superpowers, which come from his father being a member of the Viltrumite race, who, according to Nolan, pioneer the galaxy on a mission of benevolence and enlightenment. As Invincible, Mark begins working as a superhero, with his father acting as his mentor, and meeting other heroes. Mark worked occasionally with a superhero team called the Teen Team, where he met and flirted with heroine Atom Eve, who eventually quits superhero work.
BritWikipedia wrote:Superpatriot was once Johnny Armstrong, a soldier in World War II. Captured by the Germans, Armstrong was used as a guinea pig for scientific experiments and gained superhuman powers. He destroyed the base at which he was being kept so the Nazis could not replicate the process on their troops and donned a American flag-styled costume to become Superpatriot. Superpatriot later joined the superhero group called the Allies, working with such figures as Supreme and Mighty Man, and protected the innocent for many decades.
However, in the 1990s, Superpatriot was faced with more brutal and intense supervillains than ever before and began to have difficulty dealing with them. Eventually, he was overpowered by members of the Vicious Circle, a group of supervillains organized by Chicago crime-boss Overlord. Superpatriot was savagely attacked by his foes, with the shark-man Mako biting off his limbs and much of his face. Left for dead, Superpatriot's body was taken by Cyberdata, a corporation of subversive scientists, and transformed into a powerful cyborg.
Savage DragonAmazon wrote:Meet the government's last line of defense when it comes to the really messy parts of keeping the world safe... Brit. When super-powered menaces threaten our home soil, send in Brit, a one man killing machine. Indestructible, unstoppable and eligible for a senior citizen's discount.
FirebreatherWikipedia wrote:The Dragon is a large, super-strong, finned, green-skinned humanoid. He is an amnesiac; his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago. Thus, for most of the series, his powers and appearance were a mystery to readers. At the beginning of the series, he became a police officer and battled the mutant criminal "superfreaks"—principally the Vicious Circle—that were terrorizing Chicago.
Noble CausesWikipedia wrote:High teen Duncan Rosenblatt is the son of divorced parents -- a typical suburban soccer mom who wants him to get into a good college and a 300-foot firebreathing dragon who wants him to follow in the family business--conquering the Earth and inheriting the throne of King of Monsters; they share custody. Like every other teenager, he struggles to fit in with his peers. His being half-dragon further complicates matters. Duncan is completely resigned to his outcast status and has really stopped caring all that much. His awkward family arrangement forces him and his mother to move a lot.
ShadowhawkWikipedia wrote:Noble Causes is a comic book series created and written by Jay Faerber, illustrated by a variety of artists (the current artist being Yildiray Cinar) and published by Image Comics. Often described as "a super-hero soap opera", the series follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family. The stories focus less on the Nobles fighting supervillains and more on their personal lives. Originally intended to be an ongoing title, it was downgraded into a series of miniseries and one-shots. It finally became an ongoing title in 2004.
CapesWikipedia wrote:Having just moved to New York with his recently (one year) widowed father, James Collins, an electrician, Eddie a young high school student was walking down a street when the helmet literally fell into his hands. The helmet called Nommo contains the spirits of all people who were, at one time, inhabited by ShadowHawk, the Spirit of Justice. Eddie Collins tried to meditate with the Nommo on, meeting the spirit of Paul Johnstone, who tells Eddie that he is a reincarnation of a first dynasty Egyptian shaman, how he was the last ShadowHawk and that Eddie is destined to start anew.
Well....There's not much to Capes, they are a corporate superhero group, with pay and health insurance. They make frequent cameos in Invincible and made a few in Brit. They are currently back-up stories in the Monthlies of Invincible.
Tech Jacket
Seeing as there is no Wiki article for me to rip from, I don't know much about Tech Jacket. It's a manga, the main character(Zack Thompson) was given alien power armor, and he made a cameo in a huge battle in Invincible. Yep, that's all I know.
Possible Upcoming Titles
The Astounding Wolf-Man
Image Comics wrote:Robert Kirkman, the fan-favorite writer of THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, ULTIMATE X-MEN and MARVEL ZOMBIES, is teaming up with rising star artist Jason Howard for an all-new Image series, and everyone involved is so sure you'll be hooked, they're giving you the first issue on Free Comic Book Day!
THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN tells the story of workaholic CEO Gary Hampton, who is bitten by a werewolf while on a rare family vacation. Cursed to live out his nights as a werewolf, Gary seeks to find a positive purpose in his horrific new existence. But can a werewolf be a hero? THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN is about one man's struggle to do good when his body is designed for evil.
Well there you have it, discuss away.
UPDATE:
Yes, that is Brit fighting a Tyrannosaurus. Yes that is an announcment of a ongoing. Yes this is a month old, so sue me.
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And on invincible
It was nothing special, just an all american ass kicker who fights modern day nazis and cheap hydra knock offs.
Go buy the first hardcover.
You won't regret it.
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Also, I really liked it, while he was a bit of the cliche ass-kicker, his supporting cast was awesome and the ending is fan-fucking-tastic.
Yeah, it's already started.
On the topic of Invincible, I've decided to just wait for the Ultimate Collections to be released. I picked up maybe six or seven singles, but I realized that I'd pick up the hardcovers anyway, so I decided not to pay for them twice.
Yes
Its very, very good
Yes. Probably one of the greatest superhero comics produced in recent memory. It's got beautiful art throughout, a protagonist that you end up loving by the second trade, one of the best supporting casts I've ever seen (Rex Splode represent!), and it deftly juggles a dozen plots at any given time, so you never feel like you're just reading filler. Pick up the first hardcover or first two trades and I guarantee you'll be hooked, assuming you enjoy superhero books at all.
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If it's the latter, then Bomb Queen and Spawn are probably worth a mention.
I put Shadowhawk in because he's been in Invincible and Savage Dragon, he doesn't have any series that are currently being published. Spawn and Bomb Queen (Spawn may or may not be part of it) and the mnay other less-than-stellar Image titles aren't part of the main Image-verse.
I really don't think there's anything wrong with the books being separated! It's not like we really need another mega-universe.
Isn't he Jim Valentino's pet creation? Since he's a big time muckity muck at Image he can probably trot out a new mini or ongoing pretty much whenever he feels like it I imagine.
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Oh, and The Savage Dragon rocks. Issue #7 was the first I'd seen it, first I'd even heard of it. I couldn't believe the Spider-Man guy put out this wild, all splash page slug-fest. Been a fan ever since.
Seriously M-rated. So much fun too.
The Image world tour coming up in Savage Dragon is gonna kick so much ass. Apperances/team-ups/fights by Madman, Invincible, Godland, Bomb Queen, and myabe Spawn and Witchblade- all drawn by Erik Larsen. I want it now.
By the way, Tech Jacket isn't a manga, Kirkman wrote it.
Actually, I would. There's more to a book than how it looks.
if I was speaking Japanese
"america no manga"
or just manga
Since it is their word for comics
crap I gotta reinstall Japanese language thingy on my computer
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what's with that?
It's from a short story out of the Young Justice 80 page giant.
Oh, right, Image-verse. How are those big phonebook editions of Savage Dragon in blank and white? I've been wanting to start reading SD, but I'm not sure if I should go with the colored versions or the B&W.
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Updated OP with the new of a Brit ongoing...lemme see if I can find scans of the preview anywhere.
That said, I enjoy Invincible very much, though I find that I would enjoy the storylines more by just reading through them in large sections. It loses a lot by being cut up into different issues because all of the cliffhanger endings that come from the fact that it's just constantly going and going and going and not stopping or slowing down get really, really frustrating.
But other than that it's fairly terrific.
As opposed to Bomb Queen.
Which sucks.
Astronomically.
Quoting myself from the Invincible thread.
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No, I'm offended.
Keep telling yourself that. You know you love Bomb Queen. ;-)
I mean, yeah. Cheesecake. We get it.
But there are much better cheesecake comics out there.