If only more independent comic creators could find the sort of lasting success Robert Kirkman has. Mere months after The Walking Dead became the rare indie title to reach the 100 issue mark, Invincible follows suit. The difference between the two books is that Walking Dead was beginning to severely lag before issue #100 injected that series with a fresh dose of excitement and a great new villain. Invincible has had its own problems lately, but being boring or formulaic wasn't one of them. Even so, Kirkman has been promising big changes with Invincible #100. The arc title alone, The Death of Everyone, is pretty ominous.
So it's strange to note that issue #100 isn't nearly as earth-shattering as the hype would have you believe. There are deaths and a status quo change, but nothing that shakes up the formula in the same way The Walking Dead #100 did. For a story involving catastrophic flooding, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, and full-page spread of a person's head exploding in intricate detail, it's a surprisingly tame issue in many ways.
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