I’ve found myself rereading invincible once again. It is one of my favorite comicbooks ever, and with comicbooks being my favorite medium for fiction that means that it is one of my favorite works of fiction period. Yet I feel like the show so far is an improvement on those first 30 issues.
This show somehow the most faithful adaptation of a comicbook I’ve seen to date, whilst also scrambling the order of many many plot points and changing the dynamics of many characters. Amber and William have been reworked completely, yet I feel like they’ve only been improved. Cecil started working with Mark way earlier, and was actually involved in the battle against Nolan. Robot makes his new body way earlier. There is way more time between the murder of the Guardians and the fight against Nolan, some plot points happen way earlier. These changes are obviously made so that they can compress the story down a bit and give us more character building early on, But I feel that it has mostly worked out for the better so far.
I personally thought the show was better than the comic, I watched the show first then tried the comic and the battle between Mark and Nolan was way better than the comic version. But with how much I love the show, I’ve decided to give the comics another chance again and read the whole story!
As someone reading the comics for the third time. I promise you that they get better, I like all of them, but if I were to compare, I would say the first 20 or so issues are a bit less engaging than what follows.
Good! I need to give it a better chance then! Because I stopped right when Mark was supposed to marry Aquarius’ queen!