568: Collateral Damage

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Put on your capes because we’re flying into superhero action with season one of Prime Video’s “Invincible,” based on Robert Kirkman’s long-running comic. Before the Spoiler Horn, we’ll tell you why this show is worth watching—and warn you about how it mixes its love of brightly colored superhero imagery and storylines with logical but unrestrained violence and gore. Then we break down some of this adaptation’s interesting story choices and ponder where it might be headed in season two and three....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 568, May 2021.
0:10.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.8	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.8	This episode is about a recently-ended TV series.
0:16.8	It's Invincible, the animated TV series based on the comic book by Robert Kirkman on Amazon Prime Video.
0:23.8	Robert Kirkman, you may know, became kind of super famous because his comic book, The Walking Dead, became at one point, I don't think it is anymore, but at one point the basically biggest hit on television.
0:35.4	But he also, while he was making that comic, that black and white horror comic about
0:40.0	zombies, he was also the writer of a long-running comic book about a teenage superhero
0:46.5	that played with superhero tropes and was introduced to me by Lisa Schmeiser, I believe,
0:51.4	on this very podcast.
0:53.5	It's one of my favorite comics of the last 20 years, and they made it into an animated series.
1:00.0	So we're going to talk about not the comic, other than maybe where it links and how the
1:04.1	adaptation went, but about the first season of Invincible.
1:08.5	Joining me to talk about Invincible are the following wonderful superheroes.
1:13.0	Glenn Fleischman is here.
1:14.0	Hello.
1:14.7	Hello.
1:15.1	It's appropriate because I am incomprehensible.
1:18.9	James Thompson is here.
1:20.2	Hello.
1:21.7	Insert title card here.
1:24.2	And Moises Chouyan.
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