Invincible # 20
The Low-Frequency
Listener (L-FL): This June’s Friday brings forth the twentieth issue of
the superhero comic Invincible for
consideration of its offerings in defining “superhero.”
Invincible #20
(I#20): In my issue, Atom Eve decides to apply her powers in ways other than
being a superhero. Mark has dinner with
his Mom about the recent events in their lives.
Late in the issue, Mark moves into college, has his first day of
classes, and defeats another zombie robot that last appeared in issue six. Amber, finally fed up with Mark’s lateness
and absences, Amber leaves Mark.
L-FL: In “Superheroes
and the Modern(ist) Age” by Hallmark editor and professor of American
literature at the University
of Central Missouri, Alex
Boney puts forth his own ideas about the “superhero.” Boney states “The superhero comic book, replete
with mad scientists, crooks, and murderers, also accepts the fallen state and
difficulties of the modern world. If a
form of despair emerged from those early stories, it was the same sense of
despair that emerged from modernist literature as a whole—a fear that the
modern world was moving too quickly and that too many fundamental parts of
humanity were being lost in the process.
The superhero was intended to provide a remedy to this fear…the superhero
creators tried to forge characters who could transcend the limitations of
contemporary existence and stave off the chaos of the modern world.”
I#20: That
relates to the definition that comes from my pages; an individual who employs
extra-ordinary powers individually on their own terms rather than a more
pragmatic greatest good for the greatest number of people.
L-FL:
Would you say this approach contains some nobility?
I#20: It
does in these dead pages, but let’s see what happens when I use a live subject.
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