Review of the series in volume one.

Still don’t know what I think about this book. And this random crossover didn’t help. Wondering how this all ties up at the end. Well on to volume 10

That writer and creator Mark Waid chose to crossover his two titles published by Boom! was expected. What was unexpected was really how flat the trade read. This trade combines issues from both series Irredeemable and Incorruptible)and this time I think it would have read better as separate trades.We do get The Plutonian and Max Damage's origins and why they can't hate each other. But, for me it fell flat. What does work is giving the reader a base for 1) why The Plutonian snapped (not an excuse...

The Plutonian talks to his parents and the origin story of both Tony and Max Damage are shown.This volume did not need to be made. It feels like a lot of chatter and at this point I want to steam into the series finale, not hear about a brand new villain/hero. Apparently Max Damage is the star of another series by Mark Waid, but he felt completely shoehorned in here.I'm really hoping this series finishes strong, but I have a sinking feeling that it won't stick the landing.

Probably the weakest volume so far

Yep, it's a Family Affair.The part of French the butler will be played by Max Damage.The part of Mrs. Beasley to be played by Bette Noir.It’s all about families and kids, as Mark Waid puts his flashback jammies on and takes us back to the first time the Plutonian met Max Damage (from Incorruptible) and how their histories are more intertwined than the reader originally realized. Is this leading to a possible showdown?Are we there yet?Probably. Maybe. GAAAAAAAH! We’ll see.Also revealed: Who the P...

Man, this was really disappointing. The cliffhanger at the end of volume 8 really had me psyched to see what the two uberbeings would reveal. And that part of the narrative is not too bad.But after reading the first trade or two of Incorruptible, I stopped, because it just wasn't anywhere near as good as Irredeemable. So, having Max's story mashed in with Tony's, to the point of retconning their origins so they had more history together (maybe Mark Waid planned it from the beginning, but it FEEL...

In largely abandoning the series' main, and by now, smelling distinctly off, storyline Mark Waid spends the penultimate volume of Irredeemable on a four part crossover story on the origins of both the Plutonian and his near-lifelong nemesis (albeit one who's almost entirely absent from the series), the preposterously named Max Damage. And it's a vast improvement on the last few entries.The Plutonian's past (Redemption: Chapters one and two), from the history of the his 'real' parents and their a...

4.5 overall - Gave some answers to some huge questions, and perfectly set the stage for the big finale. Great stuff.

A better volume. Interesting even. Im still ready for the series to be done but this was a plus volume for the series.

Starts out very strong, but does lose steam and starts to meander towards the mid-point of the series. The second half of the series is not terrible, just okay. I recommend reading the series issue-by-issue with a few days between each and not just in one long sitting, like I did. The final arc feels very disconnected from everything else up to that point, and you will have a 50/50 chance to like the ending or roll your eyes at it.

After reading Book 9, I think this series should be retitled "Interminable" because it just goes on and on without end! This series should be over by now, there's so little to be said! Gah... yeah I'm gonna groan a lot in this review, this series is broken and I want to move on. So this book explores Plutonian's creation, who he is, how he came to be, who his parents are. It sounds promising until you're actually told and it becomes so weird and abstract that even Grant Morrison might stop and w...

We finally get an origin story of sorts and it's... mostly lacking. I wanted to love what they were doing, and it has some quick flashes of the origin story from The Boys, but the stakes feel weird and, perhaps more importantly, I didn't buy into the motivations of anyone involved here.It all just kind of goes weird. I hate where this entire thing has gone.

A slight improvement over the past few collections, but still, this comic petered out a long time ago...

This is a crossover issue, and really encompasses both Tony/Plutonian and Max Damage (Incorruptible).This is the most crucial Volume of the entire collection (both collections actually). This explores both Max and Tony's intertwined origins, and gives us answers as to how both men ended up how they did, and how it wasn't all that farfetched for both men to switch roles (Tony hero to villain and Max villain to hero).This made so much sense, and really explained enough to me. I also enjoyed it the...

Plutonian meets Max Damage - the origin stories! I actually liked the change of pace/direction/departure from the story thus far that this took. I thought vol. 8 was rushed and that various plot elements were used and then discarded (problem posed, problem solved!) way too quickly. Origin stories, at least, give the characters some more depth - and readers get a chance to psychoanalyze them based on that added information. This was a quick read for me - kept me up past my bedtime - and got me al...

I didn't comment on the other volumes, but i really like the drawong on this one. The story was very good, as in the other volumes, but Peter Krause's Bryan Hitch kind of art was not getting the best of me, so i was happy to see a new guy here and he was very good!

I binge-read this entire series in 5 days, which was a really bad idea, especially after just finishing The Boys, a similar series of superheroes gone bad.I am only giving this series 3 stars, but it might be worth more if I had just taken the time to enjoy it instead of speedreading it.In Irreedemable the Plutonian, the ultimate superhero, a god-like being, goes bad. Contrary to The Boys it are his former teammates who are trying to stop him. Also contrary to the Homelander in The Boys, the Plu...

And lo, there shall come an ending - but first, a cross0ver with companion series Incorruptible that explains the linked origins of the leads of both titles that adds emotional depth to the titles as the end approaches.

SPOILER ALERTI love the idea of a normal being wanting superpowers to expose the superhero as a monster. I mean, yeah Evan had a whole bunch of issues growing up, but one could say it stemmed from him being attacked by a pre-Plutonian child. Evan made the decision to continue down the self-absorbed survival road, but then realized he had a responsibility to expose the Plutonian for being the wolf-boy that plagued his neighborhood decades before. As Max Damage, maybe the truth would finally be pr...