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.
The comic had a good premise but shit the bed at the ending. So I guess the twist was, “The Frontline was right the whole time, the new world order shadow government is out to get you, Carrick was actually the lesser of 2 evils” was basically force fed in the last issue. Carvers weird murder/suicide at the end made little sense unless he did it so the governments couldn’t get FX7. If it was the CIA and the government that fucked him up why did he kill Carrick?