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Irredeemable #7
Irredeemable, Vol. 7
Don’t miss Volume 7 of BOOM!’s Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated ongoing superhero series from comics legend Mark Waid! IRREDEEMABLE has taken the comic book industry by storm by daring to ask the question: what if the world's greatest hero decided to become the world's most savage villain? What happens to a world when a savior betrays it…and who can stop him? A "twilight of the superheroes"-style story that examines the nature of good and evil from the writer of KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE!
Collects Issues #24-27
Collects Issues #24-27
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 2011
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Mark Waid
2,210 books1,061 followersMark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.
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June 12, 2017
Mmm Juicy Fruit!
Nobody’s swapping gum or smokes at this lunatic asylum.
Nobody's partying with hookers.
And nobody’s taking their meds either.
Why? Because were still strait jacketed on the asylum that E.T. built on the face of a sun.
Danger Will Robinson! Spoilers!!
The Plutonian has a new buddy. A very helpful buddy who points out that if you want to get off the loony bin, your best bet would be, instead of flying up, to drill your way into the planet to the transporter.
The caveat: each layer contains creatures even crazier and more dangerous than the Plutonian.
Dante’s got nothing on these hellish rings. As the Plutonian makes his way through the planet of poorly drawn yet expertly written characters, he finds each creature even stranger than the last.
Yep, a dude that’ll punch you back into time. POW!!!
The other subplots – The Survivor, who took the Plutonian’s place as top super hero dog, is probably crazier than the Plutonian. The dastardly Modeus (because he has a super man-crush on the Plutonian) and Qubit (he’s being blackmailed) go searching for Tony the Plutonian.
Bottom line: Waid’s writing continues to be riveting and not even the subpar art can drag it down.
Nobody’s swapping gum or smokes at this lunatic asylum.
Nobody's partying with hookers.
And nobody’s taking their meds either.
Why? Because were still strait jacketed on the asylum that E.T. built on the face of a sun.
Danger Will Robinson! Spoilers!!
The Plutonian has a new buddy. A very helpful buddy who points out that if you want to get off the loony bin, your best bet would be, instead of flying up, to drill your way into the planet to the transporter.
The caveat: each layer contains creatures even crazier and more dangerous than the Plutonian.
Dante’s got nothing on these hellish rings. As the Plutonian makes his way through the planet of poorly drawn yet expertly written characters, he finds each creature even stranger than the last.
Yep, a dude that’ll punch you back into time. POW!!!
The other subplots – The Survivor, who took the Plutonian’s place as top super hero dog, is probably crazier than the Plutonian. The dastardly Modeus (because he has a super man-crush on the Plutonian) and Qubit (he’s being blackmailed) go searching for Tony the Plutonian.
Bottom line: Waid’s writing continues to be riveting and not even the subpar art can drag it down.
July 15, 2022
The Plutonian tries to escape the alien loony bin he's in in the core of a sun. The way out is the way through, with Plutonian and the evil friends he makes along the way descending into an alien Dante's Inferno (not to be confused with Disco Inferno, that's a whole different kind of hell.) Modeus and Qubit have teamed up to try and rescue the Plutonian because one has the world's craziest man crush on him while the other believes he can be saved even after murdering millions of people.
June 30, 2022
Bullet Review:
Torn between a 3 and a 4 star read, I feel like I just finished reading a superhero fan fiction version of Dante's Inferno. Kaidan's presence in the book felt superfluous and we still don't know what happened to Bette Noir and Gilgamos. Honestly, this book felt like it didn't really want to end the Plutonian's story and wanted to squeeze a few more dollars out of this concept. I would have preferred a shifting focus onto the Survivor, as we've set up a natural new focus, instead of undermining the progress the series has had thus far.
Wait, and WTF happened to characters set up earlier, like Max Destruction and Jailbait? Were they test runs and when people didn't take to them well, the writers decided to jettison them?
Torn between a 3 and a 4 star read, I feel like I just finished reading a superhero fan fiction version of Dante's Inferno. Kaidan's presence in the book felt superfluous and we still don't know what happened to Bette Noir and Gilgamos. Honestly, this book felt like it didn't really want to end the Plutonian's story and wanted to squeeze a few more dollars out of this concept. I would have preferred a shifting focus onto the Survivor, as we've set up a natural new focus, instead of undermining the progress the series has had thus far.
Wait, and WTF happened to characters set up earlier, like Max Destruction and Jailbait? Were they test runs and when people didn't take to them well, the writers decided to jettison them?
December 14, 2012
This is the first time where it looks like the series is running out of steam. Tony/Plutonian begins his jailbreak out of the alien loony bin and, for the most forced of reasons, Qubit helps Modeus find Tony because Kaidan is held hostage and for some reason Modeus thinks Tony wants to be with him as much as he does. Riiiiiight. Smartest man in the universe, my foot!
The book is best characterised as a superhero version of Dante’s Inferno as Tony travels down through the layers of dangerous super-powered beings’ environments – defeating them all easily, which is always interesting to read – before finding a handy way out of the “inescapable” prison. Tony encounters an alien with time-travelling powers, a storytelling trope that always creates problems, and sure enough there is a plot hole left in this sequence that goes unanswered.
Factor in Qubit and Modeus’ fairly pointless journey and you’ve got by far the weakest book in the series. Also, when did Qubit become so powerful?
I’m still enjoying the series but Book 7 feels like Waid is spinning his wheels while getting one book closer to Book 10, the magic number for comics series. I think that this book could’ve been a lot shorter though Waid does seem to have begun reeling in the ever-expanding story back to the smaller frame it was in the first 4 books, so hopefully this means the series will pick up. But these last 3 books have been disappointing and Book 7 is the first time in the series where I’ve been able to put the book down midway through the story.
The book is best characterised as a superhero version of Dante’s Inferno as Tony travels down through the layers of dangerous super-powered beings’ environments – defeating them all easily, which is always interesting to read – before finding a handy way out of the “inescapable” prison. Tony encounters an alien with time-travelling powers, a storytelling trope that always creates problems, and sure enough there is a plot hole left in this sequence that goes unanswered.
Factor in Qubit and Modeus’ fairly pointless journey and you’ve got by far the weakest book in the series. Also, when did Qubit become so powerful?
I’m still enjoying the series but Book 7 feels like Waid is spinning his wheels while getting one book closer to Book 10, the magic number for comics series. I think that this book could’ve been a lot shorter though Waid does seem to have begun reeling in the ever-expanding story back to the smaller frame it was in the first 4 books, so hopefully this means the series will pick up. But these last 3 books have been disappointing and Book 7 is the first time in the series where I’ve been able to put the book down midway through the story.
December 29, 2014
This is still a four star because overall, it's very powerful reading. I am finding that any sympathy I developed for Plutonian has dissipated. I am at the point now where I cannot feel sorry for him, despite the sad aspects of his life. I think that it's clear that we all make choices and there is always a moment where we can say that what we do next is warranted and morally acceptable. And even if that lasts a split second, we all have the imperative to consider all actions and to if we are doing something reprehensible, to stop. Plutonian seems to be gleefully set on the course of wrongdoing. This volume has a Great Escape meets Dirty Dozen feel as Plutonian allies with a few other prisoners to escape from Gehnom, the insane asylum planet where he's been imprisoned, but his allies soon learn he's not to be trusted.
As the story delves deeper into Plutonian's dark course, we learn more and more that the remaining Paradigm members might technically still be the good guys, they also have selfish motivations and actions that they need to be accountable for.
I admit that sometimes I got Qubit and Modeus confused, probably because their personalities are quite similar to me. Modeus is interesting in that he has a dark, twisted love for Plutonian that motivates many of his actions.
This isn't fun reading by any stretch, but it's compelling without a doubt.
As the story delves deeper into Plutonian's dark course, we learn more and more that the remaining Paradigm members might technically still be the good guys, they also have selfish motivations and actions that they need to be accountable for.
I admit that sometimes I got Qubit and Modeus confused, probably because their personalities are quite similar to me. Modeus is interesting in that he has a dark, twisted love for Plutonian that motivates many of his actions.
This isn't fun reading by any stretch, but it's compelling without a doubt.
June 11, 2016
Well this is the first volume to really take a dive. Boring is the best way to sum this one up. Like I don't even care what's about with half the characters. There's one cool moment, in the last issuer, but my God does this volume really try to hit and miss every swing. I don't have much else to say about this one. I'm honestly auto-piloting this series from now on.
October 28, 2011
Mark Waid continues to turn in solid storytelling in his Superman gone crazy/mass murder tale. This volume centers on The Plutonian and his escape from an alien race's insane asylum that just happens to be located in a star. Yes, it is nigh impossible to escape from. The fun comes not in the sometimes over the top violence, but in the slash between The Plutonian and Modeus (his Lex Luthor). And, Modeus isn't hiding his love for The PLutonian.
August 25, 2013
In this 7th Volume, Plutonian picks up where he left off in an insane asylum inside a sun. his companion is in his dreams, and also reality, and they plan an escape. Along the way they run into some other interesting inmates with interesting powers.
Meanwhile, Qubit and Mobius track Tony down to the asylum, setting up a confrontation.
This volume is fantastic for showing us Tony travelling through the levels of the asylum alongside his companion(s), and eventually the one who first pushed him in the direction of an escape reveals his true identity and what he's tried to do for Tony and what Tony has done for him...it is the events that follow that revelation which finally show Plutonian to be IRREDEEMABLE.
The events and showdowns leave us at such a point that perhaps Plutonian isn't as defeated as we once thought...
Meanwhile on Earth, Survivor is the only original Paradigm membee left, having recruited former villains and criminals as a rehabilitation project. However, he seems to be heading even closer to some sort of breakdown himself.
Qubit is with Mobius, as we know, and Kaidan is being held by Mobius as prisoner, guarded by the remains/corpse of Scylla, Survivor's twin, thought dead previously.
Setting things up for a potential collision between various forces, and that's to say nothing of Max Damage (of Incorruptible) Tony's other biggest former enemy, now a hero in the remains of Earth.
As with Incorruptible, these series' should be read from the start both, and try reading both, though I suppose you could read much of one without the other, they are most effective when paired together.
Meanwhile, Qubit and Mobius track Tony down to the asylum, setting up a confrontation.
This volume is fantastic for showing us Tony travelling through the levels of the asylum alongside his companion(s), and eventually the one who first pushed him in the direction of an escape reveals his true identity and what he's tried to do for Tony and what Tony has done for him...it is the events that follow that revelation which finally show Plutonian to be IRREDEEMABLE.
The events and showdowns leave us at such a point that perhaps Plutonian isn't as defeated as we once thought...
Meanwhile on Earth, Survivor is the only original Paradigm membee left, having recruited former villains and criminals as a rehabilitation project. However, he seems to be heading even closer to some sort of breakdown himself.
Qubit is with Mobius, as we know, and Kaidan is being held by Mobius as prisoner, guarded by the remains/corpse of Scylla, Survivor's twin, thought dead previously.
Setting things up for a potential collision between various forces, and that's to say nothing of Max Damage (of Incorruptible) Tony's other biggest former enemy, now a hero in the remains of Earth.
As with Incorruptible, these series' should be read from the start both, and try reading both, though I suppose you could read much of one without the other, they are most effective when paired together.
March 24, 2012
Not sure why this comic is still going. This was a fairly ridiculous plot arc in this volume as a couple of Earth's heroes go looking for the Plutonian (why?) and accidentally give him the means to return to Earth. Kind of stupid, all in all.
November 13, 2015
Love this series. The alien element the past few books (no, I don't think that's a spoiler?) has felt systemic, and not a jump-the-shark maneuver. Well, maybe a little bit. But it is a great way to bring the story around. It's a fantastic series.
January 26, 2016
Another excellent volume in Waid's fantastic comic series. I speed read each volume they are so good and then have to go back and reread it slower to pick up more of the story. Very recommended
June 23, 2018
One of the best volumes so far.
February 12, 2023
Absolute mind fuck start to finish, I love it!
December 31, 2017
What do you do when an unstoppable force decides to ignore benevolence, and in turn accepts rage & hatred & conceitedness? Lock him up in an insane asylum found at the heart of a star!
But while there, Plutonian found an ally with an inmate who wanted to be free. The once-hero also found all manner of other beings just as destructible, invulnerable, & miserable.
This story felt odd and out of place. It was no longer about a character that didn't know how to cope with their abilities & implied, albeit forced, responsibility. Plutonian fully immerse himself into a sadomasochist. It felt like a total change of beliefs, persona, & character. Maybe it was always just below the surface? I don't know. But I felt it was no longer about him giving up on being good because the world never understood him. He is all of a sudden mad with sating his hunger to destroy, conquer, maim, & kill. If he weren't insane before going to the asylum, he sure is now. Absolute power totally & undeniably corrupted this one-time-hero.
... oh wait, I get it.
But while there, Plutonian found an ally with an inmate who wanted to be free. The once-hero also found all manner of other beings just as destructible, invulnerable, & miserable.
This story felt odd and out of place. It was no longer about a character that didn't know how to cope with their abilities & implied, albeit forced, responsibility. Plutonian fully immerse himself into a sadomasochist. It felt like a total change of beliefs, persona, & character. Maybe it was always just below the surface? I don't know. But I felt it was no longer about him giving up on being good because the world never understood him. He is all of a sudden mad with sating his hunger to destroy, conquer, maim, & kill. If he weren't insane before going to the asylum, he sure is now. Absolute power totally & undeniably corrupted this one-time-hero.
... oh wait, I get it.
July 23, 2016
Really losses steam.
World : Art has been good and stays the same. World building, not so much. I guess it's really easy to break out of a supposedly inescapable prison. Weak world building and weak character work makes this row worst arc yet.
Story: The story is an escape story and it's pretty boring. This supposed impossible to break out of prison was quite easy to break out of which means no tension at all. Plus all the obstacles Tony meets are not obstacles at all. This was just a pointless waste of time.
Characters: The characters are not interesting at all. Tony is now getting fairly one note and the new characters are all forgettable.
Poor arc that does nothing but break some characters and world building logic.
Onward to the next book!
World : Art has been good and stays the same. World building, not so much. I guess it's really easy to break out of a supposedly inescapable prison. Weak world building and weak character work makes this row worst arc yet.
Story: The story is an escape story and it's pretty boring. This supposed impossible to break out of prison was quite easy to break out of which means no tension at all. Plus all the obstacles Tony meets are not obstacles at all. This was just a pointless waste of time.
Characters: The characters are not interesting at all. Tony is now getting fairly one note and the new characters are all forgettable.
Poor arc that does nothing but break some characters and world building logic.
Onward to the next book!
February 24, 2012
The Plutonian makes his great escape (despite efforts to contain him in an intergalactic asylum) and returns to earth with the assistance of a posse of other inmates. Ruh-roh. This bodes ill for earth's inhabitants, as P. remains hell-bent on violence and destruction.
I find myself trying to empathize with The Plutonian - understand what's going on in his mind. Just when I think he's going to change his wicked ways, though...he's back to crushing hopes, dreams, people, and things. Waiting to see what happens next.
I find myself trying to empathize with The Plutonian - understand what's going on in his mind. Just when I think he's going to change his wicked ways, though...he's back to crushing hopes, dreams, people, and things. Waiting to see what happens next.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 5, 2015
Tony escapes from the inescapable prison planet thanks to a series of easily-won battles and time travel. This book can mostly get fucked.
The action is still good and the art is as on-point as ever, but it doesn't add up to much. This trade could have been a single, super tight issue reminiscent of one in the first half of the series. Instead it feels more like Waid's just taking us on a little ride.
The action is still good and the art is as on-point as ever, but it doesn't add up to much. This trade could have been a single, super tight issue reminiscent of one in the first half of the series. Instead it feels more like Waid's just taking us on a little ride.
September 20, 2012
Sadly, this volume is almost entirely mediocre. The Plutonium’s plot is slow and feels unimportant, while we’ve lost almost any plot back at Earth, with any surviving heroes.
February 5, 2013
Plutonian makes his way back to earth in probably the most awesome way possible: by escaping from an insane asylum in the middle of a sun.
August 30, 2016
Review in volume one.
February 14, 2017
Trek through the asylum planet was pretty cool, with some nice art to make it even stranger and more interesting. It's weird heading into the last few volumes of this series. I'm going to miss it.
January 6, 2019
Lots of twists in this installment.
December 8, 2019
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 Plutonian really wanted to help people, to do good, but the stress and increasing demands on him made him go postal.
Which is better, The Boys or Irreedemable? I don't have the answer to that question. In The Boys the sometimes absurd amount of violence and bloodshed is offset by some (dark) humour, which isn't the case in Irreedemable. In Irreedemable the Plutonian has more depth than the Homelander in The Boys. I have a slight preference for The Boys.
PS: I am using this review for the 10 volumes of Irreedemable.
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 Plutonian really wanted to help people, to do good, but the stress and increasing demands on him made him go postal.
Which is better, The Boys or Irreedemable? I don't have the answer to that question. In The Boys the sometimes absurd amount of violence and bloodshed is offset by some (dark) humour, which isn't the case in Irreedemable. In Irreedemable the Plutonian has more depth than the Homelander in The Boys. I have a slight preference for The Boys.
PS: I am using this review for the 10 volumes of Irreedemable.
July 31, 2019
Volume 6 may have been the silliest of the story so far, but volume 7 does its best to outdo it. There's more intergalactic shenanigans, more delving into the Plutonian's damaged psyche and his background, along with his current predicament - trapped in an insane asylum inside a sun alongside a visually imaginative, if sometimes improbably silly array of alien fellow nutters.
Back on Earth, those supervillains are turning out to not be the most reliable of heroes (funny, that) and, as always seems to be the case with this series, we get more backstory secrets, not just about the Plutonian, but about the source of his powers and those of the Survivor. And, as if the story isn't already crammed with enough convoluted elements - issue #27 throws time travel in there as well.
The weakest so far of a series that feels like it's coming off the rails, and by far the most reliant on what seem like gimmicky shocks and surprises, volume 7 is still interesting but really, I'm in it now just to finish it than earlier in the series when my interest was driven by how good it was.
Back on Earth, those supervillains are turning out to not be the most reliable of heroes (funny, that) and, as always seems to be the case with this series, we get more backstory secrets, not just about the Plutonian, but about the source of his powers and those of the Survivor. And, as if the story isn't already crammed with enough convoluted elements - issue #27 throws time travel in there as well.
The weakest so far of a series that feels like it's coming off the rails, and by far the most reliant on what seem like gimmicky shocks and surprises, volume 7 is still interesting but really, I'm in it now just to finish it than earlier in the series when my interest was driven by how good it was.
May 22, 2018
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.
January 25, 2021
So...Tony is currently working his way to the center of the impossibly impenetrable asylum in which he is being held. He has help this time - his new friend The Auroran (cool name by the way...I think it's my favorite in the series). However, is this guy truly a friend or something else? Along the way, Tony and The Auroran pick up a ragtag band of ne'er-do-wells (but are just as misunderstood as Tony and he sees that) to help them escape. At first, I thought Tony was turning over a new leaf, but now I think he's just putting the let's-destroy-the-world band back together. Qubit - always Qubit, bless his heart - arrives with Modeus to rescue Tony. But, surprise, surprise, things go awry once again.
This is one of the best comic series I've read in a long time. I can't wait to get to the next one!
This is one of the best comic series I've read in a long time. I can't wait to get to the next one!
August 9, 2020
The Plutonian begins to fight his way out of the intergalactic insane asylum.
Boo - more of the Plutonian on a planet other than Earth. It's clear that the Survivor is not going to be the fair and gentle arbiter of the world, and the two will definitely clash since our villain makes it back to Earth at the end. Here's hoping the story picks up again in volume 8.
Boo - more of the Plutonian on a planet other than Earth. It's clear that the Survivor is not going to be the fair and gentle arbiter of the world, and the two will definitely clash since our villain makes it back to Earth at the end. Here's hoping the story picks up again in volume 8.
January 3, 2019
There were a number of very imaginative ideas here. But it just didn't feel quite like a story. I think Waid did a real disservice by publishing these volumes as such short stories. It never quite feels like things are building.
February 11, 2018
the terror never stops. just when you think the mad God has fallen, he returns with new worshippers. and fear them, we shall.
March 6, 2018
Intergalactic insane asylum for super beings ... that is all ....
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