Invincible

When you look for a new series and actually find one worth reading, it is worth shouting about.

Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley have put out one hell of a new series. It's from Image Comics of all places and it is called Invincible.

I just got done reading the first ten issues and am thoroughly addicted. It's about this kid, whose father is the Superman-like character known as Omni-Man, who just gets his powers. It is sort of like that premise with the movie Sky High.

Instantly, these creators made these characters thoroughly likeable and human. If there really were superheroes with these powers and abilities, this would be what they really did. The kid is a mini-Superman and gives himself the name Invincible. He is brash and feels like early Peter Parker. Omni-Man makes being trapped in a different dimension for months somehow run-of-the-mill office work.

This is fantastic stuff. And with the twists and turns of issues 7-10, it is also good, suspenseful fiction. I can't remember the last time I was so excited to get into the next issue of a comic.