I just finished watching Invincible: Atom Eve, and I felt like talking about it. In short, I thought it was fantastic! In a world filled with superhero origin stories, this was the superhero origin story I didn’t know I needed.
Full disclosure, I’ve always liked the character of Atom Eve, both in the comics and the TV show, so I might be biased or at least already primed to like this one-shot. That said, I thought the animation was great (in keeping with the rest of the series), and the voice acting was spot on. It was a bit bittersweet to hear Lance Reddick again (I assume for the final time), but he was perfect in the role.
They did a brilliant job capturing the wonder, excitement, and heartbreak of Samantha’s story. I literally gasped in time with her when she discovered her power, and nearly shed a tear in disappointment with her over her family. It’s been a very long wait to get new Invincible, and Nov. 3 is still a long way away, but I thought this was a great reminder of what we’ve been waiting for.
What did everyone else think?
I watched it yesterday and had a similar reaction. There’s really good animation and the story was really good to get more depth for hey character. There were also some interesting call backs. Spoilers below!
Samson still had his powers so we got to see those in action. Also the green phasing person was a man, in the invincible series it’s a woman so I wonder what happened there? The people in tubes reminded me of robot too, I wonder if we’re going to get more of the others origin stories as well? Monster girl would be cool to see how she got cursed like that
Ooh, I’d forgotten that about the green phasing person - good catch! Yeah, I wonder… and definitely would love some Monster Girl history.