Invincible wrapped up its first season on Friday, although it apparently performed well enough for Amazon to greenlight two more seasons of the show.
It would appear that Amazon’s experiment in an hour-long animated superhero show drawing from an independent comic book publisher paid off.
Invincible is based on the comic book created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker, published across 144 issues by Image Comics between January 2003 and February 2018. Much of the discussion around the streaming adaptation has framed the series as a subversion or deconstruction of classic superhero tropes.
Talking to IndieWire the weekend of the show’s launch, Kirkman boasted, “