After much anticipation, Prime Video has revealed the premiere date for the second half of Invincible Season 2: Thursday, March 14.
That means it'll hit the streaming service four months after Part 1 of Season 2 debuted on November 3. Like the first half, Part 2 will release the last four episodes of the eight-episode second season weekly.
Fittingly, Prime Video made the announcement on the 21st anniversary of the comic book's inception.
Without delving too much into spoilers, Part 1 of Season 2 left fans on quite a cliffhanger. As Siddhant Adlakha wrote in his 8/10 review of Episode 4 for IGN, the midseason finale "minimizes the time spent on meandering subplots, and focuses most on the drama that works."
The two-part release structure of Season 2 is a new one for Invincible. Creator and executive producer described the decision as both a production-oriented and creative one in an interview with Collider over the summer, saying at the time, "when you see Episode 4 of Season 2, you may need a break. It's a big episode. It's definitely a mid-season finale kind of episode."
Kirkman has previously spoken about the struggles the show went through between Seasons 1 and 2, especially dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the two-year wait in between installments.
“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," he told me at last year's San Diego Comic-Con. "That was a herculean task.”
In better news, he added that "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."
That's reassuring as we know that Invincible, at the very least, has one more season in it, with Prime Video giving it a two-season renewal after its premiere. Previously, Kirkman has said he thinks seven-eight seasons would be "enough" to tell the full story of the comics, but we'll have to wait and see if he gets that opportunity.
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.
