Before Invincible Kirkman & Sus Tech Jacket Gave Image a New Kind of Hero

Before Invincible: Kirkman & Su’s Tech Jacket Gave Image a New Kind of Hero

Robert Kirkman and E.J. Su’s Tech Jacket was a hero ahead of his time who would later reappear as an important character in Image’s Invincible.

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Before Invincible Kirkman & Sus Tech Jacket Gave Image a New Kind of Hero

Best known for his two long-running comic book series and their tv adaptations, Robert Kirkman has become a household name. But long before he garnered success and critical acclaim with The Walking Dead and Invincible, Kirkman and artist E.J. Su told the story of a lesser-known young hero with cosmic powers in Tech Jacket. Debuting in November of 2002, Tech Jacket explored similar themes as Invincible before eventually appearing as a character in the more popular series.

Tech Jacket tells the story of Zach Thompson as he struggles to navigate the emotionally complicated world of high school and help his dad out at the family’s struggling hardware store. In Kirkman, Su and Val Staples’s Tech Jacket #1, Zach’s walk to school is interrupted when a spaceship crash lands in the woods by his home. He investigates and finds a dying Geldarian alien lying in the wreckage of his ship. Zach approaches the injured alien, unaware of the fact that the ship is about to self-destruct. The Geldarian gives Zach his tech suit at the last possible moment to save him from the blast.

Before Invincible Kirkman & Sus Tech Jacket Gave Image a New Kind of Hero

Much to his dismay, Zach discovers that he is unable to remove the suit. After spending most of his school day in the bathroom trying to process his bizarre morning, Zach walks to his father’s store where mobsters are harassing his dad about an old debt. When one of the goons hits Zach’s dad, he leaps into action, and much to everyone’s surprise so does the tech suit. Mechanical tentacles lash out at the creeps who quickly exit the store. After that, Zach and his dad try to test the bounds of the new suit while hiding it from Zach’s mom.

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Everything changes for the Thompson family when a team of Geldarians comes to Earth to retrieve the tech suit. They assume that Zach must have killed the other Geldarian to gain control of the suit. Rather than give him an opportunity to explain himself, they arrest him and take him into space. But when the Geldarians are attacked by their enemies the Kresh, Zach uses the suit to defeat the Kresh attackers and save his captors. This gains the trust of the aliens, who then train him in the use of his weaponized armor. Now that Zach knows what he’s doing, he is almost unstoppable. He helps the Geldarians win their war against the Kresh before returning home.

After six issues, Tech Suit ended due to declining sales. But Zach and his amazing suit returned to comics in back-up features that appeared in Invincible before making the jump to the series’ main plot in issue #71 by Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn and FCO Plascencia. Omni-Man and Allen the Alien fly to Zach and his father’s space station, where they’ve been doing their part to guard the galaxy, to recruit Zach for the upcoming war against the Viltrumites. Zach fights alongside Invincible and Omni-Man and even assisted in the destruction of the Viltrumite’s home planet.

After helping Invincible in the cosmic war, Zach and his Tech Jacket return to Earth to be with his family and protect his home planet in Joe Keatinge, Khary Randolph, Dave Mccaig and Rus Wooton’s 2014 Tech Jacket series that ran for twelve issues. In many ways, E.J. Su and Kirkman’s hero was the prototype for Mark Grayson. Like Invincible, Tech Jacket’s powers are closely linked with his approaching adulthood and play a pivotal role in his family dynamic. While the character never reached the level of popularity that Invincible did, he remains an essential part of the Kirkman model.

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Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/tech-jacket-before-invincible-robert-kirkman-hero/

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