You can’t keep a good universe down. And the Invincible team of Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley are back with Invincible Universe: Battle Beast, a new series hitting stores in April 2025.
“What can I say? I just can’t get enough of the Invincible Universe!” said Robert Kirkman via press release provided to Comic Book Club. “Moving from the comic series directly to the animated series, I haven’t really had a break. That said, while adapting the series to animation, I’ve been itching to do something new! Longtime fans will know there’s a massive gap in Battle Beast’s appearances in the series between Invincible issue 19 and issue 55. There’s a lot of story to tell and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Battle Beast co-creator Ryan Ottley on board to tell it with me!”
The first new Invincible comic to hit stores in seven years, this will debut right after Invincible Season 3 wraps up on Prime Video, making it (potentially) the perfect jumping on point for fans of the animated show
“When Robert and I first created Battle Beast way back in Invincible issue #19 as a way to increase Invincible‘s Rogues gallery, I wasn’t sure if he’d be a big character who’d come back throughout the series, or a character who’d die a terrible gory death right away,” added Ottley. “Robert always kept me and the readers on our toes, he could command a death at any moment, and you know I’d always jump at the chance to carry out the visual execution! Luckily, Battle Beast became a fan-favorite and lived to tell a larger tale! It’s amazing to be working with Robert again in the Invincible Universe. A while ago I was telling him I wasn’t sure what project to do next, and when he mentioned us doing a Battle Beast series together, I jumped at the idea of being back on a creator-owned book, enlarging the Invincible Universe even more! I’m really happy to be back at Image Comics and Skybound, and can’t wait for you to see the story we are fleshing out in this series! I haven’t had this much fun since Invincible!”
The new book will find Battle Beast searching the universe for someone more powerful than himself. And it will launch with an interesting promo. Per PR from Skybound, “Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 also features a first-of-its-kind blind bag program that allows fans a chance to get ANY of the solicited covers from A through I. However, there are rare SURPRISE comics that may or may not be related to Battle Beast or the Invincible Universe that can be found in these blind bags. Those SURPRISE comics will not be publicly announced in advance of the issue release.”
Wild. Battle Beast #1 will hit stores on April 16, 2025, but you can check out the cover and a few interior pages, below.
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