When Invincible debuted 11 years later, it held on to some of those more bombastic impulses, particularly when it came to violence on the page, but it also brought more nuanced character relationships as it explored the dynamics of the doomed Grayson family.Īs the titular teen superhero, Mark Grayson was on an exciting journey of discovery that took readers through a sprawling new superhero universe. The formation of Image Comics in 1992 ushered in a wave of new independent superheroes created by former Marvel superstars, but those comics were firmly rooted in the excessive, extreme storytelling and aesthetics of the era. So it’s accentuating the weirdness and the bizarreness, and digging in and trying to play with all the tropes, and do new takes on them, and put my spin on familiar superhero stories.”

“ Invincible is meant to celebrate everything that I love about the superhero genre. “I think that one of the reasons Invincible has done as well as it has is that I’m not a creator that is pointing out the deficiencies of the superhero genre, or pointing out what I don’t like about the superhero genre,” said Kirkman.

20 years later, his 15-year run on Invincible with artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley stands as one of the great accomplishments in modern superhero comics, and has spawned a critically acclaimed and massively popular animated adaptation on Amazon. When Robert Kirkman started writing Invincible, he didn’t know if his original superhero concept would last five issues.

Invincible by robert kirkman