SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned.
Been watching “Invincible” and reading some of the comics along the way. This damn thing is all about rentier capital and millennials and gen Xers dealing with their boomer land owning enfranchised parents. It’s really hilarious.
I do like how it makes the Viltrumites this complete shadow empire; one that is supposed to be the most powerful ever (dollar hegemony) that plays out as a dying husk without the ability to create anything, and their progeny realizing there are only 37 of them left and it’s this giant paper tiger.
It’s primary opponent is a multipolar consortium of aliens and earth desperately trying to kill off the last of the boomers (to inherit their wealth) but they just won’t die.
Too bad I know how it ends, with some form of reconciliation- another huge cop out. Would be one of the great comics if they just succeeded with the genocide of the Viltrumites and the Mark kid just flew into the sun and ended it.
Thaddeus is the Communist, the allusion to Jude the Apostle, and he is on a mission to simply destroy the financial oligarch boomers, himself one. He warns of corruption in the church.
Mark is the social fascist looking to make a deal.
Can’t help but read into the “Thragg” character as Freddie Mercury, the name also meaning the F slur, who represents the rentier realist position—the usherer of bourgeois socialism.
Originally published on x.com.
