flying start
Robert Kirkman has 21 years of comic-book writing under his (utility) belt. But the Kentucky-born scribe mounted his highest-profile success in 2010, when he adapted zombie-apocalypse saga The Walking Dead (which he co-created with artist Tony Moore) into a blockbuster TV series. Since then he’s created or adapted three more series, the latest of which is Invincible, an adult-centric animated series about super-fathers and super-sons…
This is a very adult show, yet the look evokes classical Saturday-morning superhero ’toons…
There’s a flavour to that makes, much like the original comic, to look like your traditional superhero comic. Those visuals lend themselves to the interesting contrast of this story, which is that this can be, and often is, a very dark world. If the visuals were dark in tone to facilitate that kind of story shift, you wouldn’t get the punch that you get from this show when we go to those places.
