Prime Video just handed Invincible fans a double dose of good news, and Season 5 has not even premiered yet. Creator Robert Kirkman announced at the Annecy Festival that the animated superhero series has been renewed for Season 6, alongside news that The Boys star Jack Quaid is joining the show.
Why did Prime Video renew Invincible Season 6 before Season 5 aired
Kirkman credited the show’s passionate fanbase and creative team for the early green light, specifically naming longtime supervising directors Shaun O’Neill and Dan Duncan, who will now step into executive producer roles. Season 4 wrapped earlier this year with a perfect 100% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, and Prime Video confirmed it was the show’s most-watched season yet.
Kirkman has previously said that fully adapting his comic book series would require seven to nine seasons, so this early renewal pushes Invincible closer to telling its complete story. Season 6 will also make Invincible the platform’s longest-running animated series, putting it on par with Netflix’s BoJack Horseman.
Jack Quaid crosses over from one Prime Video hit to another
Quaid, best known as Hughie Campbell on The Boys, will voice Chris, also called Gravitator, in Invincible’s upcoming fifth season. In the comics, Gravitator is a brilliant engineer who builds an anti-gravity suit and initially uses it for theft before a run-in with Invincible convinces him to straighten up and join the Global Defense Agency instead.
A first look clip shown at Annecy depicted Gravitator pulling off a heist before getting caught, suggesting the show is sticking close to that origin. Quaid joins other actors like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who have crossed between The Boys and Invincible.
Invincible Season 5 is expected to arrive sometime between February and April 2027, with Season 6 expected to follow once Kirkman and his team are ready to keep Mark Grayson’s story moving forward.
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