Netflix Officially Has Its Answer to Invincible With New Animated Series From Brian Michael Bendis

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Amazon Prime Video’s animated series Invincible has been a huge success, and Netflix is hoping to replicate that with a similar show. Invincible stands out for being a mature, animated series with a lot of intense violence – even more than Robert Kirkman’s popular show The Walking Dead, which is currently in its fourth season. Netflix is now aiming to create another hit with a comparable style and intensity.

Netflix is creating an animated series for adults based on the comic book Powers, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bendis is writing the first episode, and Oeming is helping to design the look of the show.

What Can Fans Expect From Powers on Netflix?

Although both are adult animated series, Powers will feel quite different from Invincible. Invincible is known for its extreme violence and graphic imagery, while Powers is closer in style to Sin City. Powers follows detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim as they investigate cases involving people with superpowers. Interestingly, Walker himself used to be a superhero before losing his abilities and joining the police force.

If the show stays true to the original comic books, it will probably begin with the “Who Killed Retro Girl” storyline, which was the focus of the first six issues. This is where Christian and Pilgrim first team up, investigating the murder of a pregnant young superhero, Retro Girl, whose body was discovered near a school. These mature and complex stories are exactly what would make this series suitable for a TV-MA rating in animated form.

If the comic series does well, future stories are planned, including arcs like “Roleplay,” a murder mystery involving students who play superheroes, “Little Deaths,” which explores the scandalous personal life and death of a famous hero, and “The Sellouts,” where the U.S. government outlaws superpowers. The initial run of the series lasted 37 issues and featured seven different storylines. Currently, Powers is in its fifth iteration, launched by Brian Michael Bendis in September 2025.

The Powers comics featured a distinctive, somewhat old-fashioned art style, portraying a dangerous and shadowy city. The detectives, Christian and Pilgrim, blended the feel of modern police procedurals like Law & Order with the classic, hard-boiled style of film noir. This approach allows the stories to explore mature themes and show crime scenes with some graphic detail, though not to the same extreme level of violence as the Invincible comic.

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2026-03-21 02:16