![]() ![]() ![]() This first episode itself even banks on that audience expectation, before suddenly pulling the rug out from viewers with a shocking, unhinged conclusion that begins to flex Invincible’s absurd degree of gore and violence. Initially, this seems like a fairly straightforward origin story for a third-party, independent superhero universe that’s not affiliated with Marvel or DC. Regardless, in now having to live up to the incredible legacy of his father, Mark thus strives to excel as a budding superhero in his own right, eventually taking on the identity of ‘Invincible’. Almost too quickly in fact, in turn mastering them just as quickly, to the point where it’s a little unfulfilling. Like Superman, Omni-Man is an alien from a faraway planet (albeit one that wasn’t destroyed in this case), and this means that Mark is likely to inherit superpowers, which he quickly does. Omni-Man, who more or less functions as a Superman stand-in for the Invincible universe. It primarily unfolds from the perspective of Mark Grayson, the 17-year-old son of the world’s strongest superhero, Nolan Grayson, a.k.a. ![]() What separates Invincible from The Boys in the end, beyond the fact that Invincible is an animated series, whereas The Boys is a live-action series, is the fact that Invincible is a family-focused story, not a celebrity-focused story. In fact, The Boys’ executive producers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg also serve as executive producers on Invincible, handily completing that connection! Those themes remain apparent in Invincible’s new Amazon Original animated series, which fully translates the biting edge and gruesome gore from the series’ original comic book inspiration with a stunning degree of faithfulness! That’s hardly surprising for Amazon, considering their enormous success with the similarly violent and harshly satirical superhero dramedy series, The Boys, of which Invincible feels right at home alongside. Obviously, being a superhero franchise, there’s a world of difference between Invincible and the post-apocalyptic, horror-themed universe of The Walking Dead. What Invincible does have in common with The Walking Dead however is a mature-minded storyline with a huge emphasis on shocking violence, and the darkest sides of the human condition. ![]() Like The Walking Dead, Invincible saw its first comic book issue published by Image Comics in 2003, with the series’ entire run spanning to 2018, just one year shy of The Walking Dead’s own comic book conclusion in 2019. NOTE: Full spoilers for this episode of, “Invincible” are present in this reviewĬonsidering what a pop culture powerhouse Skybound’s and Image Comics’ The Walking Dead franchise has become over the course of the 2010’s, mostly off the back of AMC’s highly popular Walking Dead TV universe, it’s hard to think about another Robert Kirkman-created comic book franchise having just as long a run in the printed panels! Finally though, Kirkman’s other longest-running Image Comics franchise, Invincible is making the leap to the small screen, via a weekly adult animation series made for Amazon Prime Video, and supposedly with a separate live-action film adaptation simultaneously in development at Universal, a project that was confirmed by Kirkman to still be in active development as of the start of 2021. ![]()
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