Invincible #28
Low-Frequency Listener (L-FL): This issue begins from the ending of issue 27, where a Viltrumite threatens Mark and his step-mother and brother. Mark and his new family flee, and Nolan defeats the pursuing Viltrumite and safely hides his latest wife and son. Nolan and Mark discover that the remaining two Viltrumites destroyed the city and killed thousands. The story also touches on the Immortal confessing the heartache of watching loved ones die to Black Samson. The Immortal notes that his relationship with Dupli-Kate is changing his point of view. Mauler creates a new clone; Amanda worries about Mark’s absence, and Mark’s mother looks through family photos and tosses out a bottle of alcohol instead of drinking it.
Invincible #28 (I#28): These events reveal yet another definition for “superhero.” Despite possessing extraordinary powers, a superbeing endures the same emotional and moral confrontations faced by normal human beings; superheroes face and respond to these confrontations to some benefit based (usually) upon their character and will rather than their superpowers.
L-FL: With this definition, super powers work as the Macguffin and the choices of the character serve as a model, or at least the arena of the true contest, for readers.
I#28: It is that reaction to an ethical choice, to observe how a superhero responds to provocation and purposeless slaughter, that lurks in Mark’s question when both he and Nolan discover thousands slaughtered; Mark’s question is “Dad?”
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