Comic-Con @ Home 2021 Notes From Robert Kirkman’s Q&A Regarding Amazon’s “Invincible”

As opposed to doing an overall panel about Invincible, Robert Kirkman did an all-encompassing panel for Comic-Con @ Home 2021 where he took questions about everything he’s working on. In terms of notes regarding the critically-acclaimed Amazon series, Kirkman notes that Conquest is going to be a much bigger part of the show’s second season (Amazon has renewed Invincible for two additional seasons). Conquest is a crazy psychopath character that loves to fight and kill and is also an elder of the Viltrumite Empire. Kirkman notes that he already has a voice actor in mind for role.

The more exciting news, for me anyway, is that there appears to be a tease for the debut of Gary Hampton aka Wolf-Man. A spin-off character of the Invincible series, Wolf-Man is a werewolf that fights crime all-the-while fighting his curse. Kirkman is very quick to say there’s a “chance” Wolf-Man is going to show up, but from how abrupt the creator was about the confirmation, I happen to think there might be bigger plans for the character who had a series all his own.

Synopsis:

From The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and based on the Skybound/Image comic of the same name by Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, Invincible is an adult animated superhero show that revolves around seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), who’s just like every other guy his age — except that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons). But as Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers that his father’s legacy may not be as heroic as it seems. Invincible will also star Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Seth Rogen (This is the End), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Andrew Rannells (Black Monday, Girls), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Mark Hamill (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Walton Goggins (Justified), Jason Mantzoukas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Mae Whitman (Good Girls), Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley), Melise (The Flash), Kevin Michael Richardson (The Simpsons), Grey Griffin (Avengers Assemble), Max Burkholder (Imaginary Order) and more. Invincible is produced by Skybound and executive produced by Kirkman, Simon Racioppa, David Alpert (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead), Catherine Winder (The Angry Birds Movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) with Supervising Director Jeff Allen (Avengers Assemble, Ultimate Spider-Man), and Linda Lamontagne serving as casting director. Invincible, Kirkman’s second-longest comic-book series, concluded in February 2018 after a 15-year run.