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6/20/2019 - TRADE REVIEW - INVINCIBLE ULTIMATE COLLECTION: VOLUME 12

The first issue of Invincible came out in January of 2003. I had just turned 21 and I was still impressed with myself for A) Be Legally able to purchase alcohol for a New Year's Eve Party B) Being legally able to rent the hotel room, where my friends and I were able to connect multiple TVs, and play Halo against each other, while drinking said alcohol. I know, it is not really something to brag about. What can I say, I was newly 21, and Social Media hadn’t completely drained us all of any kind of fun, whimsy and wonder, yet, leaving us with only bitterness and the need to be ironic. Would Invincible last for fifteen years, if it was released today and not in 2003? If an ad for it was posted on Social Media, there would be a dozen or so comments saying that this Superman Archetype should have been African American, or Muslim, or Female. Another dozen or so comments would begin with the word Yawn, followed by a list of all of the superheroes whose costume In