When writer Robert Kirkman decided to make jokes about Marvel Comics’ advertising mistakes, I laughed along with everyone else.  “INVINCIBLE #63 might even possibly be the biggest comic book event of all time, up there with The Death of Superman, The Death of Captain America, The Entirety of the Early Nineties and Action Comics #1!” It was of course preposterous.   The odds were that the newest issue of Inivincible, would be just that: another solid, enjoyable issue of Invincible.  No way would it be something worth getting up in arms about.

Well the joke, I believe, is on us all friends.

The media hyped prologue to Reborn was another great entry to Brubaker’s Captain America run, but nothing mind-blowing.  Ultimate Spider-man Requiem has moments that touch you here and there, but is mostly a fill-in issue by the great Mark Bagley.

But the third part of Invinicible’s Conquest arc… you’ll never see it coming.   It is perhaps the finest book Kirkman has written, proving to me that he is a writer whose skill even Ultimate X-Men could not tear asunder.

This book will reach into your heart and tear you to pieces. Not for the faint of heart, the level of brutality depicted will shake you.    You will close these pages satisfied despite the break-neck pacing.  Satisfied, yet strangely ravenous for the rest.  This may be the single most important event since Omni-man brutalized his son but more violent, and even more heart-wrenching.   These are the moments where we will discover just how Invincible Mark Grayson truly is, for the better or the worse.

During a week that featured Cap 600, Ult. Spider-man Requiem, Fables, and the newly excellent Mighty Avengers, this is my book of the week.  If it isn’t on your pull list,  run– don’t walk– to BSI and make sure they haven’t sold their last copy.