The REAL Songbird/Diamondback

So I just finished Invincible.

I have a bunch of thoughts.

I would say the first 2/3rds of the book is a 9/10 with masterful pacing that I just could not stop reading, but the series in the last 1/3rd just became a 7/10.

It's weird. I think the series worked so well so so many characters and threats that kept things moving, that when it starts killing off so many characters and exclusively focuses on Mark's family, it just feels like an endless crawl. There's a sense at the start of all these villains and threats building, that when they all get anticlimactic deaths and just two threats are being build near the end, it just feels like the book just takes forever to get going again.

Like, I can't stress enough how good I thought the first two compendiums of this series was, but my GOD, the third book just drags so hard. Especially when it feels like Mark goes through so many similar scenarios and falls into the same drama over and over.

I have no idea how the show will adapt the later stuff, but man, it's a wild read, but I almost wished it allowed more elements to cook instead of just wiping the board to be entirely focused on a family drama.

I had this stupid idea in my head, and I drew it, and I don't know if it's funny or flat out cursed.

And yeah, drawing a chef's hat on the Skulltula person legit made me laugh really, really hard.