Invincible

Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley's Invincible spent years as comics' best argument that the superhero coming-of-age story still had blood left in it. The premise looks familiar, a teenager inheriting his father's powers, until the book detonates that setup with a brutality and emotional honesty that mainstream capes rarely risk.

The collected volumes and compendiums are where the full saga lives: a complete story with a beginning, a savage middle and an actual ending, which is rare for the genre. The catalog also reaches into games, from the Atom Eve narrative spinoff to the fighting game Invincible Vs, extending characters who earned their following on the page. This is a finished, self-contained epic, and the discipline of that ending is a large part of why it lands.

The Invincible franchise spans 8 books, 2 games in the CrossBinge catalog.