By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2018 8:00 am EST
Here’s the official description of the show:
From Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and based on the Skybound / Image comic of the same name, Invincible is an adult animated superhero show that revolves around Mark Grayson, a normal teenager except for the fact that his father 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. The series is suspenseful, action-filled, and emotion-packed, yet builds upon poignant and heartwarming moments of love, friendship, and humanity.
The series will consist of eight hour-long episodes, and it seems like they may be leaving the door open for more if it performs well enough. If that’s the case, there’s plenty of story to tell: Invincible ran for 15 years, which makes it Kirkman’s second-longest comic only behind the still-ongoing The Walking Dead. The final issue of Invincible was published earlier this year.
To quote Leonardo DiCaprio’s Calvin Candie in Django Unchained: You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. Here’s hoping they cast Alan Cumming in the lead role, since he already has the catch phrase down:
“Robert has an uncanny talent to predict the zeitgeist, and we are incredibly excited to see him break boundaries in an animated one-hour format. In a world saturated with superhero fare, we trust Robert to subvert expectations while encapsulating a story filled with heart and adrenaline. We love his ambitious plan for the show and believe it will look like nothing else on television.”
