The second of Invincible ended with…actually scratch that, the second season of Invincible is still going on. Amazon Prime Video aired the first four episodes just last month, and will air the back four sometime early next year. We don’t know when yet, but they’re coming.
So the first four episodes of Invincible season 2 ended with fledgling superhero Mark Grayson teaming up with his dad Omni-Man to take on a trio of Viltrumite aliens, who are essentially super-powerful space fascists. Except for Omni-Man himself, a Viltrumite who used to be a space fascist until he beat his own son nearly to death at the end of season 1, had a moment of clarity, flew away, briefly considered ending it all by diving into a black hole, and who now seems to have a new outlook on life. This show got a lot done in a montage.
Anyway, the battle left both Mark and Omni-Man broken (and their opponents dead). As Omni-Man was carted away by a fresh crop of Viltrumites, he told Mark to “read my books,” referring to a series of pulp fiction novels Omni-Man wrote during his time on Earth. What could Omni-Man mean?
If you’ve read the Invincible comics by Robert Kirkman, you probably already have an idea. If not, Kirkman himself is here to tease you. “I mean, I don’t want to spoil too much around that scene, but I think that the fact that he is revealing that there’s something useful in those books for Mark in that moment indicates possibly a shift in his loyalties, if the episode in itself wasn’t a clear indication of that,” the author told TV Insider. “So I think that aspect is pretty important.”
"What they are, and what they mean, and what they mean for the future, you’ll just have to keep watching the show to find out. But I will say that in the back half, you know, we’re not going to be keeping that a mystery for long, so it’s not something that’s going to be driving you crazy for a good long time. We kinda hit the ground running on that aspect as well."
It’s good to know that the show won’t keep us dangling for too long before telling us the answers to these questions. But it is a little frustrating that we’re kept dangling at all. We don’t know exactly why Amazon chose to split the season in two like this, nor do we know exactly when new episodes will start dropping again. The sooner Invincible gets back to serving us superhero ultra-violence again, the better.
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