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Picks up in the second arc!
After I finished with the first 6 issues or so, the story got interesting. I had made up my mind not to read another Invincible trade until I read the second half of the book. So I'll review the book in parts. <
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>The origin of Invincible happened to be the most generic and uninspired opening to a series I believe I have ever read. It was rushed along so that we could get into the action, and frankly, as a writer you can jump into the action without making the story feel completely disjointed. One minute Mark is a regular kid. The next he's a super hero. TA-DAAAA! That's pretty much it. The origin was bad, the art was bad, the pacing was bad, the action was bad. It was all pretty much just bad. Until I read Part 2 <
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>Part 2 <
>Now that was a little better. It still wasn't my all time favorite, but the second half made the first awkwardness more bearable. I still don't like the whole Guardians of the Globe thing, although I understand why it was done that way. Y'see it really gets my goat when people use archetypes to add "instant character" to their creations. Why would you do that? Just flesh out the characters yourself! If you can't write the JLA for DC, then don't write them with different names for you. I could understand if it were a bit more of a parody, and there was a little bit of that, but come on! I would care more about what happened to these characters if they had no personality, rather having stolen personalities. HOWEVER, this did not affect the story really at all. It just made me a little uptight. The art was different on this arc, and it showed. It was similar in tone, but much better executed. I enjoyed the pacing on this one a bit more. It didn't feel like there were huge gaps I was supposed to fill in with my imagination. AND, there were a couple of times I laughed out loud in this arc, so THAT also is good. In short, it left me wanting a bit more which is a good thing. <
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>According to my new personal rating system, I give the Invincible Ultimate Collection volume one a 6/10. If the first arc felt as good as the second, this book would have earned a solid 8, but alas, it wasn't. As a matter of fact, if I had read the first TPB instead of getting a 13 issue collection, it would have rated a measly 4 and I would never have opened an Invincibe book again. As is, I will try Vol. 2 a chance when it comes out.

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sinestro
A superhero saga with a twist. We see the real life, (in a manner of speaking), of a boy who is the son of a legendary hero and wants to follow in his father's footsteps. We see the youth, the angst, the whole transformation to hero. Sound simple, just wait until you get hit with the suprise ending.

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Addicting
This book is absolutely addicting. It was incredibly hard to put down once I started and is utterly entertaining until the very end. Something that I appreciated about the ending was that it wasn't a cliff hanger but still left you with wanting something more. Not only is the writing great thanks to Robert Kirkman but it has easy on the eye art. It isn't too flashy but isn't too simple either, it just fits and works. Getting this book definitely got me hooked on the series and made me appriciate Kirkman even more for being able to tell an intriguingly entertaining story. Although there isn't much cursing in this series, I would recommened to parents to read this first before letting their kids under 13 read this title for the violence in the second half of the book. But other than that this book is great for anyone of any age or sex.