Spoilering it just to err on the side of caution.
For all the digital ink that’s been spilled comparing Invincible and The Boys (subject matter, gore, characters etc.) I think there’s a key difference that the most recent episode highlighted.
We see humans in a universe of supes and we see a lot more of the human side of supes, especially Robot and Dupli-kate. They are both grappling with their own humanity in separate ways, with Robot >!learning about life in a new body!<, and dupli kate elaborating on what having multiple bodies feels like. Whereas in The Boys, you don’t have much of an “am I still human?” Question from a typical supe who learned about what compound v was, though kimiko does have something of an identity crisis in s3. Even supervillains like the mauler twins get that ship of theseus question as part of their identity.
In essence, there’s a human factor in Invincible that differentiates it from The Boys.
Hopefully not starting a flame war but the boys author is a confirmed misandrist at this point. Everything he writes has this jaded cynicism thats almost so far into assuming everyones evil that its funny.
Specifically i like the existence of cecils operation. It feels like the natural conclusion to supes being real.