100+ Definitions 31

Invincible #31

Low-Frequency Listener: Eight plot lines exist in this issue of the comic book Invincible. Six pages are devoted to the Guardians of the Globe and Invincible fighting a supervillain who controls the physical actions of others, including superheroes.  Invincible knocks him out by dropping a rock on his head from high in the sky. 

Four pages tell how Mark’s mother accepts and agrees to raise her husband’s new son and her interactions with Mark.

Three pages are devoted to Mark and Amber visiting Atom Eve at her home somewhere in Africa.

Two pages show how Robot and the mutant tank baby hire the Mauler Clones to help transfer the tube baby’s consciousness into the new body it is growing.

Two pages are devoted to talk between Mark and Amber about their schooling and relationship and about the trip to Africa to visit Atom Eve.

The machinations of D.A. Sinclair and his reanimen, the Martian impersonating the astronaut abandoned on Mars named Rus Livingston, and Mark talking with his college roommate are each given one page.

Invincible #31: This interaction with Mark and his roommate and best friend, William, who chides Invincible for not doing more to find out about their missing friend Rick Sheridan.  This leads to the definition that a superhero is one who performs grand noble and physical actions, actions that have immediate and large visible results; superheroes tend to avoid more long term and cerebral actions.  Keeping in mind Batman as the world’s greatest detective, I’m the response to this definition is going to be fun.