![]() When teenage Mark begins exhibiting some of his father’s superpowers, rather than making a clean break from his dad (via death or alienation), Invincible sticks with the messier discomfort of their changing relationship. Simmons) is a Superman-inspired all-powerful superhero named Omni-Man. Its central story is about a teenager named Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun) whose father Nolan (J.K. Invincible flirts with many of these approaches. Or the seriousness can be something like psychological realism, a baseline assumption that superheroes might be people with uneven motives, petty grudges, and simple human desires. ![]() There are many ways of interpreting exactly what “seriously” means, and for superheroes, the options are usually big budgets, adult themes, gritty aesthetics, or gore. ![]() ![]() ![]() The TV series is based on a comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, and it’s another interesting entry in the growing pantheon of movies and TV shows that want to take the idea of superheroes seriously in one way or another. Invincible, a new series premiering tomorrow on Amazon Prime Video, is an hour-long animated superhero drama with the violence of The Boys, the storytelling structure of a Netflix drama, the look of the animated ’90s X-Men, and the outlook of … this part I’m still not entirely sure about. This is only a fraction of the costumed heroes you will meet in Invincible. ![]()
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