Amazon's Invincible - thoughts?

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Oilspill Battery said:
Saying that "The only thing invincible has going for it is that you don't need to read a dozen comics to get it" is like saying "The only reason you don't drop dead this instant is because the room you're in has oxygen."

This is literally the reason comics are dying and manga is taking over. Its not that the writing is astronomically superior (that said the abyssal writing in comics doesn't help) its that comics are an impenetrable brick wall.

Not only is it slop, its inaccessible slop. You can't approach it and even if you could, you have no reason to.
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Thing is, Marvel and DC on occasion show that they understand this and they make more self-contained comic book runs like Absolute or Ultimate.
But then some faggot ruins the runs entirely for no reason, inevitably.

I genuinely don't even know if DC are aware how reviled their big event crossovers end up being.
 
regalterry said:
When I think of an angel, I think divine, absolute power made manifest.
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It's so annoying that countless stories do EVERYTHING they can with demons, but I swear I've never seen a story actually make angels, the envoys and warriors of god, cool when it should be very, very easy. There's a new setting every week about demonic cities and hierarchies, but I genuinely can't recall a single series at the top of my head that actually worldbuilds heaven to any degree more significant than people going there when they die.
 
Cave Fisher said:
It's so annoying that countless stories do EVERYTHING they can with demons, but I swear I've never seen a story actually make angels, the envoys and warriors of god, cool when it should be very, very easy. There's a new setting every week about demonic cities and hierarchies, but I genuinely can't recall a single series at the top of my head that actually worldbuilds heaven to any degree more significant than people going there when they die.
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Hollywood writers are demonic faggots. They're taught to write what they know, so...
 
Oilspill Battery said:
Saying that "The only thing invincible has going for it is that you don't need to read a dozen comics to get it" is like saying "The only reason you don't drop dead this instant is because the room you're in has oxygen."

This is literally the reason comics are dying and manga is taking over. Its not that the writing is astronomically superior (that said the abyssal writing in comics doesn't help) its that comics are an impenetrable brick wall.

Not only is it slop, its inaccessible slop. You can't approach it and even if you could, you have no reason to.
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I think that is the reason why The Dark Knight Returns is still popular, because it just is an actual fucking send off to a popular character, something that comic heroes usually never get. (Also yes I know it technically isn't part of any main continuity but who the fuck cares.)

Western super hero comics are just such a weirdly unique thing where after basically a century of not being allowed to permanently kill of popular characters (which basically includes everyone who normies know) and having to reboot storylines to clean up continuity it is just such a weird interconnected mess that is just too daunting for new readers, or in genral anyone that wants to engage with something without having to read a journal.

Funnily enough even reddit DC fans seem to agree that the brand imploded after the Metal Saga shenanigans.

Invincible basically being cleaned up DC lite with a bit of Dragonball is a fun concept, but like many authors that copy stuff they like Kirkman ends up repeating some flaws of his source material, like having big catastrophic events that have seemingly no lasting impact except when the story says so, or has them in an inverted form, like how instead of having to read tons of comics about different characters to know what's going on he has multiple important characters in his single main storyline, but most of them are underdeveloped. (Like what is the deal with the two black guys that wear a purple and a yellow suit, they just seem to exist and that's it.)
 
Cave Fisher said:
It's so annoying that countless stories do EVERYTHING they can with demons, but I swear I've never seen a story actually make angels, the envoys and warriors of god, cool when it should be very, very easy. There's a new setting every week about demonic cities and hierarchies, but I genuinely can't recall a single series at the top of my head that actually worldbuilds heaven to any degree more significant than people going there when they die.
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In his 90s JLA series, Grant Morrison had an invading army of angels descending upon Earth. Of particular note is blue electric Superman wrestling the lead angel. Zauriel, a former guardian angel and then-stand-in for Hawkman, eventually joined the JLA.

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