“Invicible” is an adult animated series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video and is based on the comic book series with the same name.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new series that just ended its first season.
- Invincible is an American adult animated superhero television series
- It is based on the comic book character of the same name by Robert Kirkman
- The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 25, 2021 to critical acclaim
- The series stars Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and J. K. Simmons
- In April 2021, the series was renewed for a second and third season
- Mark Grayson is a normal teenager, except for the fact that his father, Nolan, is the most powerful superhero on the planet
- Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage
- On June 19, 2018, it was announced that Amazon had given a series order to the project for a first season consisting of eight episodes
- Simon Racioppa serves as showrunner for the series
- Based on the comic book of the same name by Robert Kirkman
- Kirkman also serves as executive producer alongside Kirkman, David Alpert, and Catherine Winder
- Production companies involved with the series include Skybound
- In January 2019, Steven Yeun, J. K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Gillian Jacobs, Andrew Rannells, Zazie Beetz, Walton Goggins, Jason Mantzoukas, Mae Whitman, Chris Diamantopoulos, Malese Jow, Kevin Michael Richardson, Grey Griffin and Max Burkholder joined the cast of the series
- Coincidentally, Rogen is working on a live-action film adaptation of the comic
- The live-action film is separate from the animated series, as a co-director, writer, and producer
- On July 18, 2020, Robert Kirkman confirmed the casting in a live video on Twitter
- On January 22, 2021, during a live-stream celebrating the 18th anniversary of Invincible #1
- Kirkman revealed that the series would debut on March 25, 2021 (midnight EST), with the first 3 episodes
- The remaining episodes would release weekly thereafter
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 96% approval rating
- With an average rating of 7.79/10
- Based on 54 reviews
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “With bold animation, bloody action, and an all-star cast led by the charming Steven Yeun, Invincible smartly adapts its source material without sacrificing its nuanced perspective on the price of superpowers”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100
- Based on 16 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
