Superheroes have infiltrated every corner of popular culture, and they've long been in the mind of Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman, who dreamt up a spin on the genre with Invincible 15 years ago. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been developing a movie based on it, but Kirkman is now also working on an animated show adaptation, one that will star the voices of Rogen, Steven Yeun, JK Simmons, Sandra Oh and more.
Co-created by Kirkman, Cory Walker and artist Ryan Ottley, the title (which concluded last February) was the Walking Dead overlord's second-longest running title after the zombie apocalypse stories, and focuses on a young man named Mark Grayson, a normal high school student in almost every regard. Except that his father Nolan is Omni-Man, a superhero and successful novelist to boot. When Mark is seven, his father drops the knowledge that he's an alien, and that Mark will inherit his own set of powers. As it happens, they kick in when he's 17 and working a part-time job, whereupon he also discovers that his dad might not be quite as heroic as people think...
This one comes with a cast that can truly be described as stuffed with some of our favourite people, including Mark Hamill, Zazie Beetz, Gillian Jacobs, Walton Goggins, Jason Mantzoukas and Mae Whitman. Amazon is backing the series (we're still wondering if this means the movie will quietly shuffle off the development burner) and it'll premiere the initial eight episodes next year.
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