![]() ![]() ![]() During that same time, its creators grew up as well, going from young, relatively untested storytellers to some of the biggest names in comics. It was quite the journey, one that found its lead Mark Grayson going from a non-powered, relatively ordinary high school student to an A-list superhero to a husband and father to the leader of a people that had not previously been his own. That all started on January 22, 2003, when Invincible #1 arrived in comic shops. As I once wrote ( and voiced!), this series often did live up to its tongue-in-cheek tagline of “The best superhero comic in the universe!” The number of independent superhero comics that ran for as long as it did, with 144 issues over 15 years, can be counted on one hand, and few of them maintained the quality this series crafted by Kirkman, artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, and assorted others like Rus Wooton, Bill Crabtree, and Cliff Rathburn did throughout its run. It may have taken a minute for it to get there, 1 but Invincible proved to be just that - and a long-running one at that. While writer Robert Kirkman had written comics, he never had a hit before. Before it was an Amazon show or a burgeoning media empire, and even before The Walking Dead - both the TV series and the comic - existed, Invincible was there. ![]()
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