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Invincible #35

Low-Frequency Listener (L-FL):  Issue thirty-five of the superhero comic Invincible is published by Image comics.  The comic is written by Robert Kirkman (the same author of The Walking Dead), penciled and inked by Ryan Ottley, lettered by Rus Wooton and colored by Bill Crabtree.

Invincible #35 (I#35):  The story begins with an educational tutor who visits the Grayson household while it undergoes repairs from the attack by Angstrom Levy.  The tutor is sent by the Pentagon to assess Oliver, Mark’s younger brother. 

L-FL: The scene shifts to Invincible defeating a villain in a robot suit named Rampage.

I#35: Another plot shift occurs when Cecil, head of the superhero section of the Pentagon, introduces the controller of Robot in his newly cloned teenage-boy body to his Guardians of the Globe colleagues.

L-FL: Another plot shift reveals Mark’s talk with Arthur, the family friend who designs superhero costumes, about Atom Eve and Amanda.  After a brief single-page interlude where Amanda is hit on by a librarian, the scene with Mark and Arthur’s conversation continues.  The issue ends with Arthur giving a series of science fiction novels written by Nolan, Mark’s father, of a series titled Memoirs of a Space Adventurer.

I#35: A definition of superhero culled from this issue is a fictional being with immense powers that surpasses the might of the general populace and lives a life of adventure; these fictional adventures provide suggestions and guidelines on how to beat the problems encountered in life.  This definition mirrors Mark’s revelation that his father’s science-fiction novels include ways to defeat the Viltrumites with the final words: “My dad is telling me how to beat them.”