Spoilering it just to err on the side of caution.

For all the digital ink that’s been spilled comparing Invincible and The Boys (subject matter, gore, characters etc.) I think there’s a key difference that the most recent episode highlighted.

We see humans in a universe of supes and we see a lot more of the human side of supes, especially Robot and Dupli-kate. They are both grappling with their own humanity in separate ways, with Robot >!learning about life in a new body!<, and dupli kate elaborating on what having multiple bodies feels like. Whereas in The Boys, you don’t have much of an “am I still human?” Question from a typical supe who learned about what compound v was, though kimiko does have something of an identity crisis in s3. Even supervillains like the mauler twins get that ship of theseus question as part of their identity.

In essence, there’s a human factor in Invincible that differentiates it from The Boys.

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    10 months ago

    This is annoying mainstream comic talk. You don’t have to shit on one property to say how good the other is. Don’t be that kind of “fan”

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      10 months ago

      Don’t worry, I absolutely love both shows. I was just thinking about what makes them distinct from one another.