Invincible EPs, J.K. Simmons, tease Season 3: “Yeah, it's pretty crazy”

Invincible Season 2 is in the books as of this week’s episode on Prime Video, so you know what that means: time to start talking about Season 3.

“It's coming,” EP Simon Racioppa told Bam Smack Pow. “It's coming. We're working on it. The nice thing, Amazon gave us a pickup for two and three at the same time, so there is a lot of work being done on it. You will not be waiting as long as you were between one and two for it, which is awesome. But yeah, it's coming.”

As a (probably) fan of Invincible, you might be aware of the gap Racioppa refers to. But in case not, Season 1 of the series was released from March 26 through April 30, 2021. It wasn’t until November 3, 2023, that we got the first four episodes of Season 2; and then there was another break until March 14, 2024, when the last four episodes started streaming, leading to today, the Season 2 finale.

Now that you’re all caught up with the continuity, though, when is Season 3 premiering? Well, we don’t know, exactly. But thanks to Invincible creator Robert Kirkman, we know it won’t be two years from now.

“Season three is very far along, and I've said that the gap between season one and season two is the longest gap we'll ever experience,” Kirkman said. “The gap between season two and season three will be very reasonable.”

What won’t be reasonable, though, is the situations Kirkman and Racioppa are about to put their characters through. Season 2 ended with Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) in an alien prison, his son Mark, aka Invincible (Steven Yeun) wrestling with having seemingly just killed a man for the first time, and so many other balls in the air we’d need another thousand paragraphs to break it all down.

Guess what? Things get even worse in Season 3, which is even better for the viewers – and way worse for the animated characters.

“Just think about it this way, we try to push everything further with our characters, with our scenes, with our emotions, and that's what we're trying to do with three,” Racioppa continued. “So hopefully if you really like two, three is more of that, different and exciting and emotional and more. We hope people will enjoy it when it comes out.”

Kirkman was even more gung-ho for the next season, adding, “I can tease that it's very frustrating to be talking about season two and promoting season two because so much is done on season three. We're all, behind the scenes, very confident that it is a better season, that it's possibly a more exciting season. It's following up on everything that was built in season two. We are trying to make a show that progresses and grows and intensity and drama and advances, so there's a natural progression from season to season.

“And so if there has been an improvement, an enhancement, from season one to season two, we're very confident that that continues.”

Teased J.K. Simmons, with a laugh, when asked: “Yeah, it's pretty crazy.”

Invincible Season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video.