So we’ll have a teenage superhero who has a family in the superhero world. “And I’m nothing if not a big fan of family stories. “There hasn’t been a cool new teenage superhero in a while,” Kirkman tells Inverse, remembering his state of mind when crafting the original Invincible origin story. Indeed, it was the log-line, when Kirkman and Walker first conceived of the comic in the first place. The show follows their relationship, and all the high-flying fighting surrounding it. He’s the son of a world-famous hero named Omni-Man, voiced by Oscar-winner J.K. Steven Yeun, best known to fans of the AMC zombie juggernaut as the late Glenn Rhee, stars as Mark Grayson, alter ego of Invincible, the budding superhero for which the series is named. Amazon Studiosīased on the comic book series he co-created with Cory Walker in 2003, Kirkman’s Invincible channels The Walking Dead in a few fundamental ways, but there’s one the viewer hears right away: its lead.
Invincible’s father, the “hero” Omni-Man. Shocking, major, violent spoilers from Invincible ahead! The Invincible origin story As it happens, that’s exactly what fuels Invincible, and it is the very same thing that has made The Walking Dead such a huge success: a bloody, beating heart. It’s better for the story, but worse for your heart rate. In Invincible, Kirkman’s killer instincts are alive and well, for better and for worse.
While the animation style makes it look like a Saturday morning cartoon, Invincible has a lot more in common with The Walking Dead than any 21-minute toy commercial. As anyone who has weathered Walking Dead will tell you, Kirkman very much kills his darlings, whether you want him to or not. If Kirkman wants to kill his darlings, he’s going to kill his darlings.
You got your cut.)įor Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s very own superhero epic, the Amazon Studios animated series Invincible, there are no Marvel or DC overlords issuing mandates, no punches he needs to pull. In both cases, these comic book movie casualties either came at the end of a sprawling cinematic saga sketched out across more than a decade worth of films, or as an easily backtracked attempt to raise the stakes for a franchise that went nowhere.
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