“When I was in the writer’s room early on, I was the lunatic that was like, ‘Let’s kill this character. “I would like think I learned a little bit of a lesson from The Walking Dead,” he admits. Thanks to AMC’s massively successful adaptation of The Walking Dead, Kirkman was ready to surprise readers of the Invincible comic books (which launched six months before TWD hit shelves) with new content, while remaining true to the source material. “I was like, ‘We’re gonna put in a call to Mahershala Ali?’ And then he would be like, ‘Yeah, I’m in!’ It was pretty amazing.” “There were a lot of favors that were asked,” laughs the Kentucky native. In addition to Oscar-nominee Yuen ( Minari) and Oscar-winner Simmons, Kirkman was also able to fill the series with a stable of other noteworthy voices, including Seth Rogan, Sandra Oh, and Jon Hamm.
“We came at them and were like ‘It’s mature animation, extreme graphic violence, you know, cable drama-level …and then we hit them with the hour-long format.'” “I really have to give it to Amazon for allowing us the freedom to do that,” raves Kirkman, who created the comic-book series back in 2002. Akin to Prime’s The Boys, it begins to beat the genre to a bloody pulp. After an opening episode that’s mostly your standard hero’s journey about 17-year-old Mark Grayson (Yeun) being trained to join the family business with his Superman-like dad, Omni-Man (voiced by J.K.
“You think it’s kind of a family-friendly because it looks very similar to a lot of the superhero animation you have seen, so I’m hoping that will lull viewers into a false sense of security.” “We wanted to do something that is much different than your traditional superhero animation,” notes the comic-industry icon.
Animated series is voiced by Steven Yeun, J.K.
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