THEVILTRUMITEWAR Cr) amen LS 110), ee) ae HEROES EN EL UNIVERSO! ‘ a ™ es) ic pew A as 7 Ss > > i 5 aap W Ke aaa UN ere). 0°) 01 0 oar ea Ue Megs Helite UL | apes eee iy iL ROBERT; KIRKMAN “Ab tee! RYAN OTTLEY, DIBUJANTE oe CLIFF RATHBURN, § ENTINTADOR FCO PLASCENCIA s COLORESTA i | RUS WOOTON \ ROTULADOR © * PORTADA POR RYA RYAN OTTLEY & FCO PLASCENCIA “CREADO | POR OR ROBERT KIR KIRKMAN. gi ‘CORY, WALKER © Coo ee ee ee ee ‘2nd Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704. Copyright © 2010 Robert Kirkman & Cory Walker. All rights reserved. INVINCIBLE™ (including all prominent characters featured herein), Its logo and all character lkenosses are trademarks of Robert Kirkman & Cory Walker, unless otherwise noted. Image Comics® and its Jogos are registered trademarks and copyrights of Image Comics, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means (except for short ee er eee ‘characters, events and locales in this publication are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual Cones ec een ena a eis regarding the CPSIA on this printed material call 203-595-3636 and provide reference # EAST - 66371PARA ANDAR SIN ROPEOS, ‘Mis ORDENES SON, TECNOLOSIA PAPA SUBSISTIE. eL Te SERA INUTIL. ouiero due pisreutes DEL EapectacuLo, ‘Boi Que Te “TARE AL iLTIMo.2 No puepen espeRae ENFRENTAR Be a. impezio si estos ‘SON LOS MevoRes: o ce, mam NEDO-— ja u : ‘ec RS. . Dae a eesess # By isreccorarc! iNo PUEDO VER th Napa MicNTeAS My to Haces! ag Eq co ‘QUE NO, K erence.Ne i yl 4 4 ] = s E . aASS Lore ‘SIN AIRE! TN °o! ae ; iM bs 4 a ime cotte peus SIN ARE j2No eS cleero#! 20 ‘SIMPLEMENTE @ Te. ‘ALIENTO? PRIMERO, CHICO.RAR sks 7 NV ass i isLo enTienves AHORA, NO# ieDeJasTe De uueae?! iNo Te pevare ie, cONauESsTSPao) De) a) Ce ec kay Hey Penvincipals, This is Sina Grace, Robert's new editor, taking over the letters ‘column while the main man gets caught up on your favorite books. He's still reading all of your letters, and will be providing answers to all of your hard-hitting questions. All 'm «doing is putting it on a word processing document for him. (Don’t forget the foot rubs! -Robert) PN et you in on a little secret: Invincible is my favor kirkbook. This comic captures the fun of an ongoing superhero adventure, and the drama of growing up with responsibilty far larger than the shoulders you've got. Coming onto this series as editor right around Invincible Returns feels all too amazing. Now, about this issue: Holy. Moly. Conquest is that kind of bad guy who brings out the best in ‘our heroes. He knows how to get under your skin, find your entrails, and pull ‘em out as if they were baubles. I's a little unnerving to know that there’s still more bloody Vittrumite War tocome. (Yeah, this is just chapter TWO of an eight-part story! Hold onto ‘your hats, kids! -Robert) But I digress. Let's see what you thought of the magnificent Invincible Returns one-shot! Finished reading Invincible Returns and love seeing Mark back in the blue and yellow costume, The black and blue costume was ok, but THIS is the ook I think of when | hear Invincible. 'm with you, brother (fist up). | reall iked how this issue reflected on the history of the Mark. You guys developed his character over 70+ issues so gradually that this issue actually made me think he had gone a bit dark side, never felt that reading the actual issues on a month to month basis as the circumstances where he cut loose on Angstrom, Conquest and Rus were him with his back against the wall. Seeing these events in a condensed issue kind of changes the perspective a bit, but ltl ike Mark either way he did what he had to do. | just hope the events of this issue don't pussify him too much, Ohem gee. “Pussity,” Kirkman. | found a new word. Was going to pull “Pussify,” seems like it could be a little offensive, but then I thought back to what actually happens in this issue and I et it go. ‘Aigo, please give Nolan some shoes, boots, or something to wear ‘on his feet. Sure he’s invulnerable, but | hope to see this guy kicking some serious ss in the upcoming issues and seeing him flying ‘around barefoot doing i ust looks weird, Or is there afoot fetishist ‘on the creative team? Haha | don't know if you would call my admiration for a set of taut, clean, kissable men’s bare feet a fetish... Hah! Here's the thing, Nolan, | thought, looked really cool when ‘he had no shoes an in the prison. | thought it was a cool look. PAL: ‘So when Cory came on to do issues 66 and 67 and we were ‘going to give Nolan 3 new uniform, | thought it'd be coo! to ‘keep the barefoot look. if you think about why we wear shoes (to protect our feet) then you can see that Nolan doesn’t need ‘shoes, his feet are stronger and more durable than any shoe. So don't worry, he'll be kicking all kinds of ass--and he'll be doing itwith FEET! Seriously guys, no shoes is where it's at! Bring on the Viltrumite War! Jason Aiken Oh, it’s already been broughten! Ye GoDs! Freddie Mercury isthe Vltrumite King? | did not see that coming. ‘And how powerful must he be if Conguest is frightened of nim? Yikes. And Cecil, what a sneaky bar steward he is; | hope someone blows open al his lies and duplicity He just wants somebody to love. Invincible Returns was a good solid issue, and it was good to see Vince tur his back on that darker period of his lif. Nice homage ‘to Amazing Spider-Man #300 too, although | can’t tll if that was doliverate Everything Kirkman does is a huge homage to Spider-Man. His, kid--Peter Parker Kirkman--thinks that he can climb walls. I's amusing to watch, really ‘The back-up was a itl choppy. | can understand its purpose in bringing new readers up to speed, but the info dumping was just a litle laboured, | thought. Stil, good to see Cory Waker back on art, | don’t disagree, on BOTH counts. Cory is awesome, and that back-up could have probably stood to be alittle smoother and less stilted. It's a fine line between info dumping and bad dialogue, | think I crossed it in a few places to be perfectly honest... but y'know what... you win some, you lose some. Sorry to end on a downer there, There's stil lots of great stuff happening in the comic, and | can't wait to see how this next phase turns out! ~ Kelvin Green {own two pages of the Cory sequence! He may think | bought the talking head pages because | can't afford his awesome splashes (which is true), but really, that man is a wonderful storyteller. Walker, are you reading this? if'n you are, will you sive me a deal on the next batch of pages | buy? Hey team, Long time listener, ist time caller Well, more lke: long time observer, fist time reader. I've seen so ‘many great things said about Kirkman’s writing and his books that | FINALLY sat down and read Invincible #1 on the imagecomics.com ‘ree preview site lastnight.For all you readers out there: Comixology offers a free download of all Kirkman #1s! Get an iPad and download, ASAP (AND it’s free on the Image Comics website, and over at ‘Newsarama.com too, I think. Tell your friends. And holy heck do these comics look good on an iPad. Issues 1-60 are already available.) By page 7, when Mark aunches the garbage bag into orbit, you had me forever. Honestly. My brain exploded and my heart skipped beats. My face matched Mark's reaction panel: wonder & complete excitement and all the things that have kept me a monthly reader since | was 12. A moment of true connection when the little kid inside stil feels elated and unstoppable and invincible. Cory Walker can draw you doing that. Ten dollah. | know Ive gota lot of reading to catch up on but thank you in advance because it's been a while since | was this excited for the adventure, Keep having fun and keep up the great work, Greg Pm glad you like the book, Greg. You gotta catch up ASAP ‘so your face can explode when you see that your letter got printed! Kirkman, | ust picked up invincible Returns and | really loved. it. lguess the Gory Walker back-up which served as a recap was. engineered to make it easy for new reader to jump on board. While ‘that’s fine and dandy for newcomers, | personaly thought it was awesome to see what all those meetings with the Vitrumites would have looked like had Cory never let the book. Don't get me wrong though, | love Ottley’s art and he just seems to get better with every issue. yan and Cory are pretty spectacular. If you love Ryan's art, just wait until you see the stuff Robert has him drawing over the next few issues! \ originally picked up invincible because | enjoyed the short back-up feature that ran in the pages of Savage Dragon years ago. To this day Savage Dragon and Invincible remain my two favorite books on the market. | love thatthe characters in your books are so well- fleshed out with emotional confict and varying degrees of moral uncertainty. It reminds me of Greek mythology where the gods ‘and heroes are simultaneously capable of great deeds and horrible retribution. Compared to writing lke tis, the good guy/bad guy dynamics found in those other comic companies seems so juvenile Keep up the excellent work and I'l keep buying Abbot Henderson Robert's probably super stoked that you said his book was as good as Savage Dragon. That man has an inappropriate lave for Erik Larsen. shnhh, The Men of invincible (and Aubrey too), As far as | know, Aubrey is a man--the kind of man who can strangle a rhino with his bare hands. It must be the curse of the Kirk-Editor to have ambiguous names (for the record, | too am a man, although Robert still isn’t convinced). Wait--WHAT?! RE: Invincible Returns Great freakin’ issue! So... Freddie Mercury really didn't die? He just left Earth and became the leader of the Vitrumites? 1'm ready for War! Let's get it ont Matt Guliter Hah, Robert, make some stupid Queen reference, please. ‘want to ride my bicycle, ''m a big fan of Invincible. I've been picking up the invincible Ultimate Collections which feel and look great. But | recently picked Up Invineble Returns #1 and | dislike the paper stock that it was printed on so much that felt the need to write in. Please switch to ‘something less rigid which doesn’t feel ike it wll come to pieces if not handled gingerly. It's too glossy too. | won't be picking up any more issues if they continue to be printed on the same stock. | wil ‘however keep picking up the Ultimate Collections no matter what though because they are too awesome. Keep up the great work. Alfred P McLovely I PS. | love the Walking Dead book collections the most. | love the fact that they don't have slicovers. They're my favorite hardcover callections, Love ‘em! Robert, should we even deign to answer this? | hate slipcovers, to! I realy do. Ym justa sticker for ‘consistency. ! don’t want to suddenly have volume 6 of the Invincible Ultimate Collections have no dust jacket. They do {a0k nice, though--you have to admit that. On the paper stock used on RETURNS, I don't think i's any afferent than the issues ‘before that, but will say that issue 71 was printed ata new printer-s0 hope you like that one. Seriously, though...dam't stop buying because of paper-stack! Sheesh! ‘That's about all the time we have for letters this issue. 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