Invincible #144 Review

How often do we get the opportunity to see one writer and two artists remain on board a comic for 15 years and 144 issues straight? This series has been allowed to grow and evolve over the years in ways that simply wouldn’t be possible on a traditional, company-owned project. All of that only adds to the weight and significance of this final issue, as Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker give fans one final outing with the Grayson family. It’s not a flawless sendoff for the series, but an emotionally fulfilling one all the same.

The pacing of this final 12-part story arc, “The End of All Things,” has been all over the map. For a time it seemed as though the book had reached its dramatic climax too soon, leaving little material to fill these final few issues. But now, with the surprise debut of a son Mark never knew he had and the pressures of becoming emperor weighing on our hero, it’s as if the series suddenly has the opposite problem.

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