Probably a hot take but long before <insert favorite character> got killed I got bored of it because I actually wanted a sci-fi story with a logical conclusion. Everyone hated the season 1 CDC episode but I enjoyed that little tidbit of investigation and possible clues towards solving the outbreak. Then the creator had to go and disavow it and say "This isn't sci-fi, there are no happy endings, it's just a story about zombies. We don't plan to explain the zombies." I wasn't really into it any more and finally stopped watching when it was obvious that guy who was supposedly traveling to DC to report what he knew about the outbreak was bullshitting everyone.
The thing is, ever since Night of the Living Dead it’s been a given that the zombies don’t get explained or resolved. It’s hardly groundbreaking to do that shit, and yet people still think they’re blowing our minds by going that route.
I agree 100% actually, and hated how they threw away the world building that Darabont managed to introduce in Season 1.
I stuck around a little while longer, to see if they could actually pull off what the comic managed to in terms of great antagonists and interesting personal conflicts (largely in the form of The Governor). But the show never really found its footing after losing Darabont imo. S2 was a fucking boring slog, then they went on to screw up the Governor and every change they made to the characters of the comics was worse and worse. The women characters were insufferable which is again disappointing because the comic actually had some really good ones.
In fact, the show was so bad it killed any interest I had to finish reading the comic lol, knowing that Kirkman was supporting this shit full-steam
Now that sounds a hell of a lot better than the shit we got, with more filler than DBZ’s original run (“WHATS IN THE BARN” for what was it, 24 episodes? Fuck right off).
Instead of that, which could have been really interesting vinettes which would have probably tied into eachother and the mainline group eventually (like we saw with Morgan kind of), we got, what are they up to now, 6 fucking spin off shows? I’ve never met someone in my entire life who has discussed watching a single episode of any of those shows, despite knowing tons of people who saw at least some of the main show.
Kirkman has a habit for writing very, very, very long stories but does at least eventually end them. TWD comic lasted 193 issues over 16 years [October 2003 - July 2019] while Invincible took 144 issues over 15 [January 2003 - February 2018].
Somewhat surprisingly the ending to Invincible was actually quite good despite how long it ran for as often the hype overtakes the story and sets an impossible standard to meet.
His current comic Fire Power recently came back from a 9 month break of all things but is supposedly meant to carry on monthly now.
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.
I got bored with the show and decided to finish the comic books and be done with it. To think this show was at around Game of Thrones level hype at one point.
Whenever the comic book ended. I got bored with the show and said I’ll just follow the comic book until it ends. 2018 I think. Yea the showrunner is obsessed with diversity. Also in a post apocalyptic setting there are an awful lot of gay people
Probably a hot take but long before <insert favorite character> got killed I got bored of it because I actually wanted a sci-fi story with a logical conclusion. Everyone hated the season 1 CDC episode but I enjoyed that little tidbit of investigation and possible clues towards solving the outbreak. Then the creator had to go and disavow it and say "This isn't sci-fi, there are no happy endings, it's just a story about zombies. We don't plan to explain the zombies." I wasn't really into it any more and finally stopped watching when it was obvious that guy who was supposedly traveling to DC to report what he knew about the outbreak was bullshitting everyone.
The thing is, ever since Night of the Living Dead it’s been a given that the zombies don’t get explained or resolved. It’s hardly groundbreaking to do that shit, and yet people still think they’re blowing our minds by going that route.
Everyone knows it was a virus brought to earth by a crashing probe from Venus.
That or Hell literally flowing over, I liked how he left it open while also pointing in some directions.
I agree 100% actually, and hated how they threw away the world building that Darabont managed to introduce in Season 1.
I stuck around a little while longer, to see if they could actually pull off what the comic managed to in terms of great antagonists and interesting personal conflicts (largely in the form of The Governor). But the show never really found its footing after losing Darabont imo. S2 was a fucking boring slog, then they went on to screw up the Governor and every change they made to the characters of the comics was worse and worse. The women characters were insufferable which is again disappointing because the comic actually had some really good ones.
In fact, the show was so bad it killed any interest I had to finish reading the comic lol, knowing that Kirkman was supporting this shit full-steam
Now that sounds a hell of a lot better than the shit we got, with more filler than DBZ’s original run (“WHATS IN THE BARN” for what was it, 24 episodes? Fuck right off).
Instead of that, which could have been really interesting vinettes which would have probably tied into eachother and the mainline group eventually (like we saw with Morgan kind of), we got, what are they up to now, 6 fucking spin off shows? I’ve never met someone in my entire life who has discussed watching a single episode of any of those shows, despite knowing tons of people who saw at least some of the main show.
Kirkman has a habit for writing very, very, very long stories but does at least eventually end them. TWD comic lasted 193 issues over 16 years [October 2003 - July 2019] while Invincible took 144 issues over 15 [January 2003 - February 2018].
Somewhat surprisingly the ending to Invincible was actually quite good despite how long it ran for as often the hype overtakes the story and sets an impossible standard to meet.
His current comic Fire Power recently came back from a 9 month break of all things but is supposedly meant to carry on monthly now.
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.
I got bored with the show and decided to finish the comic books and be done with it. To think this show was at around Game of Thrones level hype at one point.
Whenever the comic book ended. I got bored with the show and said I’ll just follow the comic book until it ends. 2018 I think. Yea the showrunner is obsessed with diversity. Also in a post apocalyptic setting there are an awful lot of gay people