She’s a great voice actor who’s done a ton of different things. Not only do we have big movie stars like Seth Rogen but we have great actors like Grey DeLisle. Kirkman: We always try to think of the best actor for the role. Q: What did the casting process involve for Invincible Season 2? Kirkman: We have fondness for every character. Racioppa: I really like writing for Machine Head because it’s so over-the-top. Hopefully it feels very integrated into the show rather than everybody is doing multiverses now. Racioppa: That touches on the themes that we were just talking about. It’s a more character based dramatic way of exploring the multiverse. Angstrom Levy is capable of showing him glimpses of other versions of himself that may reflect the horrors that he is worried that is inside of him. We’re having Angstrom Levy be Invincible’s villain at a time when he is worried about who he might be at his core. We’re doing it more as a character study. Unfortunately, try as I might there’s no Michael Keaton Invincible. There aren’t previous iterations of Invincible that could come in and show up. A lot of the other multiverse stories are about bringing in sandboxes of days old and having actors coming back to reprise roles that you are dying to see them play again. We’re doing multiverse stuff extremely differently than what everyone else is doing. Kirkman: As far as the multiverse thing goes because Angstrom Levy is a very multiverse-based villain. Q: Can you discuss the villains of Invincible Season 2 like Angstrom Levy and the alternate universes? We’ll see at times he’s very worried that he may be wrong when he says he doesn’t. Then in Season 2 it’s a completely burden that has emerged and constantly having to prove himself time and time again he isn’t Omni-Man and he doesn’t have that potential in him. He had all of these expectations on him because Omni-Man was the greatest superhero that ever lived, and he was worried he wasn’t going to be able to live up to that in Season 1. Season 2 is Mark being terrified that maybe that could happen. Racioppa: Season 1 is about Mark wanting to become his father. Q: What is the major theme of Invincible Season 2? The only thing I can say is that we’ll just have to see. That’s something that we’re actively trying to figure out. That is something that’s a challenge for the show as we move deeper and deeper into the run because there is a lot of that kind of stuff. It’s a little bit more difficult when you have a big corporation and a lot of big companies involved. You can play fast and loose in comics especially if it’s one entity like me and my partners all owned those characters. Kirkman: Those are definitely separate properties in the same way that Spider-Man or X-Men were separate properties. Is it the same situation with those characters and properties or could they potentially appear in the show? As fans who’ve read the original Invincible comics are aware, many of your other creator-owned superhero characters appear throughout the run like Brit, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Tech Jacket. Taimur Dar: As you’ve previously explained, the change from Science Dog in the comics to Séance Dog in the show is due to different property rights. Racioppa: I just assumed this happens when you work with Kirkman on anything! Moving into Season 2 we couldn’t be more excited to be back and be doing this all over again. We didn’t know how the first season would be received. Some of the violent elements that we incorporate are pretty intense and always there to drive story. I didn’t know how people would respond to this. Kirkman: The memes are super cool but also somewhat alien to this aged individual. Q: Has anything surprised you at this point? Racioppa: You also want the show to look better every season so there’s also that. You look back on Season 1 and go, “I can’t believe they started here and expanded to this point.” Things should get a little bit bigger and more intense as each season goes so momentum is a tough balancing act. Kirkman: The goal is that it’s an escalating show. The scope is still so big that even with the best team it’s tricky. We have an incredible production team who work their butts off. Everything needs to be thought up and designed and drawn. The amount of places we go and number of new characters we meet in Season 2. Rebuilding the show post-pandemic led to the big delay. Robert Kirkman: I guess maintaining the momentum of what we did with Season 1.
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