Invincible #73

Starting where we left off, Invincible finds himself with a hole the size of a basketball in his abdomen and stranded on an alien planet. As regular Invincible readers should know by now, he’ll be fine, not because his dad and Allen the alien are right behind him, but because we’ve seen this before. Usually writer Robert Kirkman is able to surprise readers with a last page shocker but now it just seems like a tired old routine that the book can do without. Not saying that a last panel shocker is bad, in some cases it can work consistently well, like in Kirkman’s zombie apocalypse book “Walking Dead” but just not for Invincible. Invincible has strong writing and equally engaging artwork which can support the it without a last page which just cheapens the work and just annoys the reader.

Beasts of Burden Hardcover

Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s “Beasts of Burden”follows the adventures of a group of dogs-and a cat- as they investigate and solve paranormal mysteries in their little town of Burden (get it, they are the Beasts of Burden.) From spirits with unfinished business to zombie dogs, they have a lot to figure out and fix. One might just brush this off as a children’s book, but before you do, you must give it a go; it has the nostalgic feel of a children’s Saturday morning cartoon mixed with the gritty action of “Hellboy”. Jill Thompson’s artwork is phenomenal, even when she’s not drawing action sequences or splash pages, the backgrounds and settings are beautifully colored and adequately detailed. If your interested but don’t want to part with $20 yet, you can read the first three chapters free at the Darkhorse comics website, trust me, it’s worth it