I assume he had doubts about the empire at some point after meeting Debbie. Doesn't hurt to have a backup plan.
Okay. The Viltrum have exactly one traitor in about a thousand years. He is so unique that you can say "The Betrayer" and everybody will know who you mean. It is completely unknown for a Viltrumite to abandon his post. Nevertheless, Nolan thinks, "might as well keep my options open" and constructs a plan for a scenario in which he turns traitor, but doesn't have time to explain all of the Viltrumites' weaknesses personally, but does have time to cryptically mumble "read my books" to somebody who has access to his books, trusting that they will be able to figure it out. He thinks that this is more likely than a situation where he remains loyal to the empire, but an enemy figures out his weaknesses from the books he wrote.
Somehow, this exact scenario does in fact come to pass! Amazing planning. But it has no actual impact on the plot, because he goes and finds the weaknesses himself.
tbh, I think Kirkman wrote this into the comics with no real plan of how it was going to play out, and it was left in the cartoon because it gives Nolan some more appearances (via flashback) when fuck all was going on with his story. It makes zero sense though.
I see a lot of people complaining about Thragg's voice, but I like it the way it is. People want something more gruff and threatening, but I think the softer voice works better. Thragg knows he's the toughest bastard in whatever room he walks into, so there's no need to put on airs.
He is
excellent. Perfect, even. I don't even know who it is, but apparently they cast exactly the right guy instead of getting yet another celebrity meme actor.
The issue with Invincible isn’t that it’s capeshit. It’s a smug, embarrassed parody. Its source material is smug as shit about not being like other comics, but that amounts to being sarcastic about cliches.
It’s no Venture Bros. where it actually is a loving parody.
Nah.
It really is unironic unabashed capeshit, just edgy. Here's the key: Nolan isn't Superman, Mark is Superman. Nolan is Zod, maybe. I see this thread giving Mark shit for being "whiny" or whatever, but the only thing he ever gets depressed about is that maybe he isn't a good person. He doesn't bitch about all the suffering he has to endure or how hard it is to do the right thing. Despite all the dismemberment and swearwords etc, it's
supposed to be an optimistic story where the good guys triumph by doing the right thing. There is a lot of room to assert that Kirkman perhaps fucked this up a bit (or a lot), but we'll see how the rest of the show plays out.
