Prime VideoInvincible Season 3 is days away from its Prime Video release, and you may be wondering: how many seasons are there, and how many are in the works?
Invincible, based on the comic series of the same name by The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, premiered on Prime Video in 2021 after a lengthy back-and-forward development. The adaptation was originally planned to be a movie, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg producing – while a big-screen version of the story is still in the works, it soon became a hit series.
It follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), a 17-year-old high schooler who begins his transformation into a superhero under the watchful eye of Omni-Man (JK Simmons), his father and the most powerful being on Earth. While he wants to be a friendly neighborhood, all-seeing, all-helping hero, he struggles to balance his everyday responsibilities and his corrosive relationship with his dad, especially as the truth of his origins comes to light.
Four years later, the third season is about to hit Amazon’s streaming service – and the future looks bright for Invincible.
Invincible will last longer than 3 seasons
Prime VideoThere are three seasons of Invincible right now, Robert Kirkman believes there could be as many as eight seasons by the time it ends.
Amid the near-immediate success of the series, Amazon announced it had already green-lit Invincible Seasons 2 and 3 before the first season’s finale. Soon after Season 2 ended, it was renewed for a fourth season.
In an interview with Polygon, Kirkman was asked how many seasons it would take to tell the comic’s entire story – bear in mind that it’s comprised of 144 issues across 25 volumes, so we’ve just scratched the surface.
“I’m trying not to pin it down to a number, because it is somewhat of a moving target. I think in the seven-to-eight-season range seems like it would be enough,” he said, which could see it running for as long as Game of Thrones.
“But there could be some things we move through a little faster, some things we expand. If we’re fortunate enough to go for a good long time, I think that would be enough to cover the entire comic. And there are some things along the way that didn’t get into the comic that I’d like to do. I think it’d be cool to have some episodes here and there that are completely original. So that’s part of the plan moving forward.”
He echoed this in an interview with Collider. “The way Simon [Racioppa] and I have mapped out, where we would kinda follow the comic and where the breaks would be, roughly eight seasons,” he says.
“Could be seven, could be 10… or nine. I can be greedy.”
Before it drops, read our Invincible Season 3 review and keep our Season 3 release schedule bookmarked. You can also check out our ranking of the strongest Invincible characters and how to read the Invincible comics for free.
