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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good light reading, but not necessarily worth $125, September 27, 2007
This review is from: The Complete Invincible Library, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Luckily for all of us, Amazon offers this book for $75, not the incredibly steep $125 that it runs for in stores. While this is a pretty good series, I wouldn't justify paying $125 for it. Mathematically, it's a far worse deal than buying in single issue format, since your average single issue runs $2.99-$3.99, Trades run for $15 with 6 issues ($2.50 each), and this gives you 25 issues for $125 ($5 per issue!). The upside, however, is that the paper is nicer, the art is enlarged, and it is presented in a beautiful hardbound format.
Invincible, for those who haven't read it, is a teenage superhero comic that shows strong similarity to mainstream comics like Ultimate Spider-man or Ultimate X-men. It's superhero action with a little less violence and mature material so as to be popular with the under-18 crowd. It thrusts its hero into the classic (and sometimes cliche) situations common to this genre of comics. Our hero struggles to keep his job, schoolwork, social life, girlfriend, and superhero work separate with increasing difficulty, and this is for the most part the main focus of the book. There is far less super-action than fans of other series are used to.
One drawback to Invincible is that its writer, Robert Kirkman, struggles to convey plot through conversation. Too much of the author's speech and style shows through in every character's dialogue, making it hard to see them as different people. Those who have read his other work (the Walking Dead or Marvel Zombies) will recognize this. But overall, Invincible is a book that will give you a sort of fun, carefree read, and you'll find yourself finishing this book and wanting more far sooner than you think.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
worth the gamble, July 12, 2007
This review is from: The Complete Invincible Library, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
i bought this with no knowledge of the character or comic, it just caught my interest one night. this is the 2nd greatest thing i've read this year, the first being the goon. issue #5 is one of the best stories i've read in 10 years. this comic keeps on coming up with new twists and turns and never comes off hokey. i hope volume 2 comes out soon.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Invincible is great; this book isn't., March 29, 2010
This review is from: The Complete Invincible Library, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
I'm throughly in love with Invincible and have been reading it since about issue 19. The characters are solid and enjoyable, the humor is spot on, and the action is everything a capes book should be. I've been waiting idly for some time now to start actually buying the title as I have no desire to collect the individual issues but instead was looking for a good deal on collected volumes. Having great experience with Dark Horses' Hellboy Library volumes I bought this assuming a similar quality.
Physically this book is just not worth the money. The box it comes in is superfluous and easily damaged. (Mine was a little beat up in shipping despite excellent packaging.) The pages are so thin they are practically transparent and the physical dimensions of the book are just a centimeter too large for most of my shelves so it has to be stored with my over sized textbooks instead of the rest of my comic volumes. Worst of all there is almost no space between the binding and the start of the artwork so that many times I found I had to really pull at the pages to get at some bit of text or appreciate the art.
Unless you are getting it for almost nothing, this book is just not worth the money. Had I not purchased mine at a considerable discount I'd be rather displeased. I love the content, but the thing itself is just poor quality. I'll be purchasing the more reasonably priced Ultimate Hardcover editions when I continue my collection because, even though I am unaware of their quality, they can't be any worse then this.
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