Steven Yeun knows the wait for new Invincible episodes sucked, promises improvements

Here are some of the good things about Invincible, the animated Amazon Prime Video show adapted from the superhero comic by Robert Kirkman: it's exciting, sensitive, hilarious and just one of the best things on TV right now. New episodes start dropping on March 14. We've watched ahead and can tell you that they're fantastic.

And here's some of the bad things about Invincible: Kirkman and his team have taken forever to produce new episodes. The rollout of the second season has been especially frustrating. The first four dropped in November, and then we've had to wait over three months for the final four. And this was after we'd already waited well over two years between seasons 1 and 2. That's simply too few episodes at a time!

As I said, the drought is almost over, and going forward, star Steven Yeun — who plays teenaged superhero Mark Grayson, aka Invincible — they're going to try to minimize weird waits like this going forward. "For us, we know that this big break was not fun," Yeun told Collider. "We've been working hard to get a lot of backlog done. We wanna time this animation thing appropriately. So, yeah, we've been working. We're banking episodes, we know what's going on."

We still don't know exactly why Amazon chose to split up the second season of Invincible this way, but it probably has something to do with the general difficulty of producing season 2. Talking about the reasons for the long wait, Kirkman previously cited the unusual one-hour-long episodes, the difficulty of traditional animation in general, the complexity of the story, the size of the cast, and the COVID-19 pandemic. He's also promised that we won't have any more long gaps like the one between seasons 1 and 2 going forward, which is music to fans' ears.

In fact, we know they're already working on season 3, and it sounds like they're pretty far along. Back in December, cast member Jason Mantzoukas — who plays jerk superhero Rex Splode — said that he'd already recorded dialogue for season 3, and that those episodes are "bananas." If they were already at that stage in December, they're even closer to having new episodes done now.

All of this is great news, because I don't want to enjoy these next four episodes and then enter a new Invincible dark age. See you this Thursday.

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