In development for adaptation for almost two decades, Invincible is now an animated Amazon Prime Original series debuting March 26, with Kirkman writing and executive producing alongside Simon Racioppa. However, Invincible was drawn in the sunny, vibrant style of all-age comics and Saturday morning cartoons, making for a bigger punch when readers watched the blood splatter explode on the pages. The book was both a coming-of-age story about 17-year-old Mark Grayson finally presenting (and figuring out) his powers, and a deconstruction of the most cliched tropes of this specific genre, in a similar vein to work from writers like Alan Moore ( Watchmen) and Frank Miller ( The Dark Knight Returns). Robert Kirkman may have earned his superstar writing cred for creating The Walking Dead comic and then the eponymous AMC television series, but there was another of his comics titles that put him on the map with superhero appreciation circles: Invincible.Ĭreated with artist Corey Walker in 2003 for Image Comics, Invincible kicked off a brand-new superhero imprint with the indie publisher and it immediately drew gasps from readers and critics alike for its ultra-violent depiction of traditional, cape-centric superhero stories.
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