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Pick of the Week: Invincible #52

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 – running time 04:15
The Pick of the Week goes to Josh, and he gives the honors to Invincible #52, which just keeps getting better.

There may be no book more recommended by iFanboy than Invincible, the best superhero book on the stands for over 50 issues, and it's from Image Comics, and not Marvel or DC. Josh recently hopped from the trades to the issues, and it's a good thing, because his Pick of the Week, Invincible #52, featured one of the best stories Robert Kirkman has told yet, not to mention the fact that Ryan Ottley is one of the most talented young artists out there. It's almost unnatural how much fun this book is, and how deadly serious it can get when you're not expecting it.
Read the full Pick of the Week Review!

Highlights
bad guys ( 2:07, 2:13, 2:15, 2:17, 2:07, 2:13, 2:15, 2:17 ) comic book ( 0:16, 0:16 ) perfectly balanced ( 3:17, 3:17 ) clone ( 2:15, 2:15 ) bad guys ( 2:07, 2:13, 2:15, 2:17, 2:07, 2:13, 2:15, 2:17 ) comic book ( 0:16, 0:16 ) perfectly balanced ( 3:17, 3:17 ) clone ( 2:15, 2:15 )

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" Audience like just you get into the site and when he. I -- you know that's right. I -- I -- he's a little version of large comic book show I've been the way it is Saturday in which means it's not a big week many. -- you week is the book that one of us chooses to be the best issue that they read this week and after this week he was invincible number 52. In which was an impressive pick because it was easily. Without a doubt the best thing I read this week but also everything else -- it really really good I've -- everything these four stars five point scale that we use that in voice. And so it's no small thing that I thought this book is really good because it was a stand that weak dot. On a lot of people read -- trades so you may not want to keep watching this at this point. There's a warning I suppose let me give me give you an example of what it was like for me to read its double mrs. Pictures Wednesday. Afternoon -- And true."

" Who aren't okay. Oh whoa whoa and so -- Robert -- ended his left turn on us on in and I. Should've seen it coming -- but didn't see it coming issue fifty a couple of issues back. Was sort of the new paradigm issue and the cute pretty good and 51 was all right and it did change things and in a bunch of stuff. Was different for invincible. And what you thought you had some things sort of under control and this issue blue without the water what is that Oliver who can who is invincible little half failing actually -- alien. Is little alien brother perhaps rather. Decide Z he's not so into human morality and that humans are all just bugs and why not kill the bad guys. So you're very you're viciously at only rhino which can draw the way. Rex. One of the bad guys and then -- the bad guys clone or. The bad guys bad guys on that something -- argue about that's a running joke in the book the thing about it is I didn't see it coming. And it sets a whole other area problems or invisible who had his own problems already and so that was going on. In this just piles on top of that this is the same thing where in the earlier care to get too happy years sort things that too much because that's death for the story. But all man it really took me by surprise I was it was everything that's fun about reading invincible is is what. And in this issue. I'm Ryan hotly. Is his talent is an us and we talk about a lot of great artists on on the show on the website. And there's a whole lot of and I liked but I don't know if there's ever been a guy who's been so perfectly paired with the material. And part of me wants to see him do something else but part of me never ever want to leave this book. And I just I love the way that he draws this book it seems like it's so simple and so basic but it's such the the pages are so good figures are so good -- just perfectly balanced with the book is supposed to feel like and so. Because it's kind of like that when something horrible happens and there's that -- all over the screen of blood. He just it just it gets you because you're not expecting it to -- seem quite right it worked perfectly. If you want to read more I wrote a whole lot about this overnight and whatnot coming -- regretful review of the there and -- you listen to the pick of the week in discussion that we do on this in the audio podcast but. That was you look at the book and then a little bit about it. IE had so much fun reading this book and it's it's been funds is -- executions in. It's still an excellent excellent book one of the best of her books out there if not the best so they go. Go to I think what -- comic accent or get a order risen three dot com slash second where -- you can find lots more videos. Including a bunch of stuff about Robert Turkmen if you wanted to search for him and and who doesn't love Robert carpet. Well after that whole video -- probably few people but I digress annual see you later."

" Audience like just you get into the site and when he. I -- you know that's right. I -- I -- he's a little version of large comic book show I've been the way it is Saturday in which means it's not a big week many. -- you week is the book that one of us chooses to be the best issue that they read this week and after this week he was invincible number 52. In which was an impressive pick because it was easily. Without a doubt the best thing I read this week but also everything else -- it really really good I've -- everything these four stars five point scale that we use that in voice. And so it's no small thing that I thought this book is really good because it was a stand that weak dot. On a lot of people read -- trades so you may not want to keep watching this at this point. There's a warning I suppose let me give me give you an example of what it was like for me to read its double mrs. Pictures Wednesday. Afternoon -- And true."

" Who aren't okay. Oh whoa whoa and so -- Robert -- ended his left turn on us on in and I. Should've seen it coming -- but didn't see it coming issue fifty a couple of issues back. Was sort of the new paradigm issue and the cute pretty good and 51 was all right and it did change things and in a bunch of stuff. Was different for invincible. And what you thought you had some things sort of under control and this issue blue without the water what is that Oliver who can who is invincible little half failing actually -- alien. Is little alien brother perhaps rather. Decide Z he's not so into human morality and that humans are all just bugs and why not kill the bad guys. So you're very you're viciously at only rhino which can draw the way. Rex. One of the bad guys and then -- the bad guys clone or. The bad guys bad guys on that something -- argue about that's a running joke in the book the thing about it is I didn't see it coming. And it sets a whole other area problems or invisible who had his own problems already and so that was going on. In this just piles on top of that this is the same thing where in the earlier care to get too happy years sort things that too much because that's death for the story. But all man it really took me by surprise I was it was everything that's fun about reading invincible is is what. And in this issue. I'm Ryan hotly. Is his talent is an us and we talk about a lot of great artists on on the show on the website. And there's a whole lot of and I liked but I don't know if there's ever been a guy who's been so perfectly paired with the material. And part of me wants to see him do something else but part of me never ever want to leave this book. And I just I love the way that he draws this book it seems like it's so simple and so basic but it's such the the pages are so good figures are so good -- just perfectly balanced with the book is supposed to feel like and so. Because it's kind of like that when something horrible happens and there's that -- all over the screen of blood. He just it just it gets you because you're not expecting it to -- seem quite right it worked perfectly. If you want to read more I wrote a whole lot about this overnight and whatnot coming -- regretful review of the there and -- you listen to the pick of the week in discussion that we do on this in the audio podcast but. That was you look at the book and then a little bit about it. IE had so much fun reading this book and it's it's been funds is -- executions in. It's still an excellent excellent book one of the best of her books out there if not the best so they go. Go to I think what -- comic accent or get a order risen three dot com slash second where -- you can find lots more videos. Including a bunch of stuff about Robert Turkmen if you wanted to search for him and and who doesn't love Robert carpet. Well after that whole video -- probably few people but I digress annual see you later."