"Invincible" is not the movie about Mark Wahlberg playing an ordinary guy trying to crack into a degenerate criminal organization. It's a cartoon on Amazon. It turns out that it's written by the same guy who wrote the comic book on which "The Walking Dead" is based, and the comic book on which this is based. It's like "Banshee" if "Banshee" was an animated teen superhero show. With no sex or nudity. So actually, not much like "Banshee," but they are the only two things I can recall seeing with such bloody fist fights.

Anyway, "Invincible" is the story, and eventual code name of, Mark Greyson, and perfectly ordinary teenage white kid (voiced by an Oriental actor, so lets go burns some shit down my fellow honkeys) whose father happens to be Superman. Actually, "Omni-man", and Krypton is called Viltrim, and he was not set here as a baby to escape a dying world, he was sent out as part of a charity program, whereby young Viltrimites go to less developed planets to help them out, like Mormons do with their gap year, but more peace corps than proselytizing. So Omni-man or "Nolan" fell in love with a real estate saleslady and married her and had a kid. Who is apparently ordinary and hoping he gets superpowers any day now. Which he does. Basic Superman stuff, though I don't think he has heat vision.

Anyway, the setting is a world full of superpowers and aliens and whatnot, with a Justice League analog, called Guardians of the Globe, but they have a Wonder Woman (Maggie from the Walking Dead), a Batman (Morgan from the Walking Dead), a Martian Manhunter (Tyrese from the Walking Dead), a Flash (Abraham from the Walking Dead), a Green Lantern (Sasha from the Walking Dead), and an Aquaman (Aaron from the Walking Dead). You know, I haven't seen the Walking Dead since they defeated Negan because he put the production of his bullets in the hands of one of his enemies whose former guardian Negan beat to death while said bullet-maker watched. Does this mean Maggie and Aaron have been killed off?

So there is also a group called the "Teen Team" whom Mark encounters and get their own story going forward, and an oft-referenced but never seen and looked-down-upon group called "Fight Force" which is probably a comic book joke. And there are lots of superhero fights, with lots of blood and guts getting spilled, and sometimes the superheroes kill people by dismemberment. One recurring villain is a pair of twin blue hulking beings called Mauler, one of whom is a clone of the other, but they can't remember which and each keeps insisting the other is the clone.

It's a kind of mix of straightforward superhero fantasy and deconstruction at once and it's not bad. Except for Amber, Mark's high school crush, who is obnoxious, annoying, judgmental, sanctimonious and presented as a moral voice of the story and she's of a very dark skin tone with messy hair and frumpy clothes, so you are supposed to be in awe of her and identify with Mark's efforts at bending over backward to appease this shrill harridan when a much more conventionally attractive fellow superhero and generally nicer person, who actually goes out and does stuff to be more helpful than an anti-crime thug instead of lecturing or posturing, has an unspoken but obvious crush on Mark.

But you really don't have any other options in entertainment these days, so you might as well just hit the 30 second jump button until Amber is no longer on the screen.

It's still early in the run, but it also looks like they are setting up some moral ambiguities with Nolan and his mission and how his being a superhero intersects with his family life. Like, you see a lot about the difficulties of being a superhero and having a normal family life, but there is also the issue of what about parenting conflicts between a superpowered parent and normal human parent over raising a superhuman child? Especially when the former is from a different culture and has certain expectations placed on him as a parent. And this setting's equivalent of Nick Fury has to grapple with some things that don't get raised in the MCU. It's not super original or creative, but it's also not as nihilistic or shocking-for-shocking's-sake as, say, "The Boys."

I am enjoying it more than "Wandvision" (1 ep), "Falcon & Winter Soldier "(caught up, more or less) or "Batwoman" (like, 5 episodes, only following it through YouTube hate-watchers). I even kind of like it better than "Arrow" or "Flash".