Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Guardians of the Globe
- Darkwing (First Appearance) (Death)
- Red Rush (First Appearance) (Death)
- War Woman (First Appearance) (Death)
- Aquarus (First Appearance) (Death)
- Martian Man (First Appearance) (Death)
- Green Ghost (First Appearance) (Death)
- The Immortal (First Appearance) (Apparent Death)
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Midnight City criminals (First Appearance)
- Kursk (First Appearance)
- Bi-Plane (First Appearance) (Death)
- Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson)
Other Characters:
- Invincible (Mark Grayson)
- Midnight Magician (Death) (Mentioned only)
- Belvedere (Mentioned only)
- War Woman's girlfriend (First Appearance)
- War Woman's mother (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Midnight City (First Appearance)
- Burns Tower (Single appearance)
- Massachusetts
- Colorado
- Utah
- Guardians of the Globe Headquarters (First Appearance)
- Midnight City (First Appearance)
- Russia
- Atlantis (First Appearance)
- United States of America
- Space
Items:
Vehicles:
- Wing Jet (Single appearance)
Synopsis for 1st story
While Mark is resting from days of being a superhero, The Guardians of the Globe spring into action. In Midnight City, the forever twilight city due to the Midnight Magician's suicide, Darkwing stops two thieves attempting to carve into Burn Towers. Darkwing deals with them and receives a call from the Guardians base. He hops into his Wing Jet and flies away, while ordering his butler Belvedere to have his sidekick, Night Boy, take care of the criminals.
Meanwhile in Moscow, Russia, Red Rush stops a mugging, defeats Kursk, and saves a cat stuck in a tree. He returns to a picnic he's having with a woman who notices he is in a costume. He quickly changes out and then receives a call from the Guardians base as well.
In Boston, War Woman is sleeping in while her girlfriend is making breakfast. War Woman kisses her on the cheek and is uninterrupted by a statue, demanding that War Woman return with it, citing that her mother is worried. War Woman rebuffs saying that she goes where she pleases. She beats the statue by shoving it out of the building and receives a Guardians call.
In Atlantis, Aquarus receives a call and heads up upshore, finally eager for some action.
In Outer Space, Martian Man and Green Ghost defeat a machine and return to Earth, only to be called as well.
In Denver, The Immortal fights Bi-Plane and easily defeats him by throwing him into space. Bi-Plane was going to die from cancer anyway. The Immortal receives the call and heads to the Utah base. He says the secret password (Rumplestiltskin) to enter. He finds all the Guardians there with him. They are confused because since the rest of them were already there, they jumped to the conclusion that the Immortal called them.
Before they could think, the assailant smashes Aquarius and Red Rush's face together, decapitates Green Ghost, snaps War Woman's neck, disembowels Martian Man, and impales Darkwing. Immortal looks around at the carnage and notices the person who did it. He says "I never liked you" to the murderer. Immortal is then decapitated. The murderer, Nolan Grayson, reveals he called the Guardians to get in one place to kill them. Nolan then tells the decapitated Immortal that "the feeling was mutual".
Appearing in "This Strip is Rated "Arrrr""
Featured Characters:
Synopsis for "This Strip is Rated "Arrrr""
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- The inker on the Red Rush section, Tony Moore, is the co-creator and original penciler of Brit, another series set in the same universe as Invincible.
- The penciler on the War Woman section, Mark Englert, also pencils Capes, another series set in the same universe as Invincible.
- The penciler and inker on the Green Ghost and Martian Man section, Cliff Rathburn, later becomes the regular inker on Invincible.
- The villain Bi-Plane is intended to be an analog of Marvel's Spider-man villain the Vulture.
- It is unclear if The Immortal is intended to be an analog of anyone from DC's the Justice League. Superman would be the closest fit (though Omni-Man more closely matches his power set) though it seems that The Immortal is intended to be a unique character. Interviews with Robert Kirkman have stated that he used the analog approach to be able to have the readers form an instant connection so that their death in the same issue would have more impact.
- In the Martian Man and Green Ghost scene the Green Ghost's civilian t-shirt has a Viltrumite symbol on it. Since nothing has ever come from this it would seem this was just a mistake.
Trivia
- This issue also includes bonus pin-ups by Ryan Ottley (colored by Ron Riley) and Azad Injejikian.
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