Invincible

Why this series hooks him

Invincible is the superhero comic that convinced people who don't read comics to read comics. If he's watched the Amazon animated series, he already knows the first arc — the books go much further and are significantly more brutal.

Robert Kirkman (of The Walking Dead) knows how to do long-form storytelling with real stakes: characters die, relationships have consequences, and the world evolves across 144 issues.

How to start

Invincible Vol. 1 collects the first four issues. It's 128 pages and takes about an hour to read. By the end he'll have ordered Vol. 2.