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If you miss the Invincible comic book series, don’t sleep on Invincible Universe: Battle Beast. The Image Comics series reunited the team of Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley, and they’re working hard to make sure the battles live up to what fans have come to expect from the franchise,

“It takes a lot to open that back up because we’ve done these crazy escalating fights and everything landed really cool,” Robert Kirkman says during an appearance on Robservations with Rob Liefeld. “To come back and do Battle Beast, we have to be 100% aware that every single action sequence and fight that happens in Battle Beast is going to be compared to the best fights in Invincible. And so, it’s very nerve-wracking to go, okay, here we go, let’s try it again. Let’s see if older and tireder Ryan and Robert can compete with younger and faster Ryan and Robert.”

Kirkman teased Battle Beast #10, in stories June 17, which will see the long-awaited fight between Battle Beast and Conquest. According to Kirkman, the battle will answer some lingering questions from the original Invincible comic series.

“A big part of the series is Battle Beast fighting Conquest, which never happened before. When I got into figuring out what this series was, you don’t see Battle Beast – he’s introduced in issue 19 and he doesn’t show up again until issue 55. And it’s so funny that people didn’t ask questions about this when we were launching the book, but like, the main question I wanted to answer with the series is how does he get into a Viltrumite prison.”

“If he’s going to get into a Viltrumite prison, he’s going to have to encounter some Viltrumites. And the timing worked out great in that this could have been Conquest’s mission before he was sent to Earth. And so, it all works out really well. Some of the things that he says in the fight with Mark in the original where it’s like, ‘I’m usually sent to do this and I usually have these parameters, now I’m being told to cut loose.’ It’s like, okay, so those parameters might apply to the Battle Beast fight. There will be these cool things where when you read these issues of Battle Beast where you’ll be able to go back and read Invincible and be like, oh my god, that totally lines up. That’s neat.”

Invincible Universe: ttle Beast #10 hits stores on June 17.

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