How did Invincible end exactly? I tried reading a synopsis and it had something to do with time travel or something? And didn't the main bad guy win or something? I remember re-reading the synopsis for the finale several times and not really understanding what was supposed to be going on.
Invincible is a story best summed up as: "Invincible: The Never Ending Suffering of Mark Grayson", because taken as a whole that's what happens. A lot.
Seriously, every major arc involves something horrible happening to the main character such as almost getting beaten to death multiple times, stranded in another dimension multiple times, watching your close friends and family die in front of you multiple times, fucking up and getting countless people killed multiple times, getting betrayed by your closest allies multiple times. On the plus side he only gets raped once.
😶
Anyway, the time travel thing falls into the category for "stranded in another dimension" and simply put is just one in a long line of moments where Mark's life goes to complete shit.
The actual ending still manages to land remarkably well considering how long the story went on for and rather than try to describe it myself I'm going to just quote some of the top comments from the site I read all my comics on these days.
I was terrified, actually terrified to read this, because there was no way it was going to be a good enough end to this great series, I was wrong!
And I'm so happy!
Mark's become Actual Silver Age Superman
what a ending seriously,i didnt think it could live up to the rest of the series but it did, wow no words just perfect
If you want to read the comic yourself, and I would certainly recommend the main run although the various side stories like Brit, Capes, and Guarding the Globe are all good reading as well, the whole thing is online here,
Brit gets weird with the dimension jumping stuff but then that's somewhat consistent with the Invincible universe. I only read Capes recently despite the run being out for so long and it was both a great read and unfortunate victim of the main story when it caught up to certain events. GtG has some very worthwhile reading for what happens to Rudy and Monster Girl, though.
There are a few other related comics set in the same universe. Techjacket is the universe's Blue Beetle stand in and there's a comic somewhere about the werewolf character, but both are far more detached from Invincible than the others. Still quite good.
How did Invincible end exactly? I tried reading a synopsis and it had something to do with time travel or something? And didn't the main bad guy win or something? I remember re-reading the synopsis for the finale several times and not really understanding what was supposed to be going on.
Spoilers ahead!
Invincible is a story best summed up as: "Invincible: The Never Ending Suffering of Mark Grayson", because taken as a whole that's what happens. A lot.
Seriously, every major arc involves something horrible happening to the main character such as almost getting beaten to death multiple times, stranded in another dimension multiple times, watching your close friends and family die in front of you multiple times, fucking up and getting countless people killed multiple times, getting betrayed by your closest allies multiple times. On the plus side he only gets raped once.
😶
Anyway, the time travel thing falls into the category for "stranded in another dimension" and simply put is just one in a long line of moments where Mark's life goes to complete shit.
The actual ending still manages to land remarkably well considering how long the story went on for and rather than try to describe it myself I'm going to just quote some of the top comments from the site I read all my comics on these days.
If you want to read the comic yourself, and I would certainly recommend the main run although the various side stories like Brit, Capes, and Guarding the Globe are all good reading as well, the whole thing is online here,
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Invincible
Brit gets weird with the dimension jumping stuff but then that's somewhat consistent with the Invincible universe. I only read Capes recently despite the run being out for so long and it was both a great read and unfortunate victim of the main story when it caught up to certain events. GtG has some very worthwhile reading for what happens to Rudy and Monster Girl, though.
There are a few other related comics set in the same universe. Techjacket is the universe's Blue Beetle stand in and there's a comic somewhere about the werewolf character, but both are far more detached from Invincible than the others. Still quite good.
Wow. If I have the time I may read through it one day.
Thanks for the quick summary.