Invincible creator Robert Kirkman is fully aware that it’s taken a while for Season 2 to arrive, but swears you’ll never have to wait so long for another season of the Prime Video series ever again.
It was announced during last month’s San Diego Comic-Con that Invincible Season 2 will be debuting on Prime Video on Nov. 3 with four episodes, with the second half of the season coming in early 2024. That marks a gap of more than two years in between Invincible’s first and second seasons, with Season 1 having come out in March 2021.
When explaining why Season 2 took so long during an interview with IGN at Comic-Con, Kirkman pointed to a number of factors:
“A lot of naps,” he joked. “No, I mean, it was the worst possible timing with the series launching in the middle of the pandemic and ramping back up to start Season 2 and Season 3, and also putting systems in place so that this doesn't happen again. That was a herculean task.”
“The production of an animated series is a factory, and when you shut that factory down, it takes a long time to ramp it back up,” he continued. “And we wanted to ramp it back up in a way that would ensure that we don't have a delay like this ever again. And so that's been the goal.”
He added that “a lot of it was the pandemic and working with the overseas studios in the pandemic and figuring out different ways to manage all that kind of stuff,” and that every delay just “compounded” on top of one another.
“But the good news is all of the work that was done in this time is ensuring that that is the longest gap that anyone will ever have to wait between seasons of Invincible,” he concluded.
And we already knew that Season 3 was coming, having scored a two-season renewal shortly after Season 1’s debut. When asked how far along the team is on work on Season 3, Kirkman said “it's very, very, very far along, but animation, there's always steps” that could extend the process.
We also pressed Kirkman about the live-action Invincible movie, which Kirkman confirmed all the way back in 2021, but we’ve gotten few updates on since. While the project isn’t dead, Kirkman said “nothing’s currently happening because of the strikes, so yeah,” – which is true, as Hollywood’s writers and actors remain on strike. (Kirkman is able to work on and talk about Prime Video's Invincible because it’s represented by The Animation Guild, which is not on strike unlike the Writers Guild of America and The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists).
For more on Invincible, check out our breakdown of who the villains will be in Season 2.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
