Invincible Vol. 1

Invincible is a long-running superhero comic written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Cory Walker, published by Image Comics since 2003 and running 144 issues in all. The protagonist is Mark Grayson, a seventeen-year-old high school student who seems no different from his peers except for one fact: his father, Nolan Grayson, is Earth's most powerful superhero, Omni-Man, an alien from the planet Viltrum. Mark has long awaited the superpowers he will inherit through his father's bloodline, and one day, while taking out the trash after work, he casually throws a garbage bag an impossible distance, and his strength and power of flight awaken. Under his father's guidance, Mark begins to adjust to his extraordinary physique, finds Art, a tailor who makes costumes for heroes, settles on the name "Invincible," and tries to balance schoolwork, his job, friendships, and fighting crime. Yet as he learns more about his father's past, he begins to sense that something hard to name lies behind that heroic halo. This volume is the first volume of the series (collecting the opening issues), the starting point from which the whole long story moves from innocent daily life toward its turning point; here readers meet the Grayson family, Mark's classmates and friends, and his first adversaries.