Amber in the show is very justice forward. “The character is very different from the comics, not just in race, but I think in terms of what she is interested in and what is important to her. So it’s great to be a part of doing things a little bit differently, and I think Amber’s character is a really big part of that as is having Zazie Beetz play her.”īeetz, who voices this new version of Amber Bennett, emphasizes that the changes are more than just skin deep. We’re all just trying to do our part to make sure that when you consume a piece of entertainment, you’re seeing a representation of the world that exists around us, and sadly that’s something that wasn’t really done in comics for the better part of the last century. It’s a more well-rounded experience and representation matters. He continued, “I think that our story is much richer for it. Shrinking Ray was a character that was changed from male to female because we recognized that we didn’t have enough female characters. And I think that Invincible is a very diverse comic that has a wide range of different kinds of people represented, but I think that it’s something that we recognize we can do better when it came time to do the animated series now. Diversity was not something that was at the forefront of our minds back then. I was from Kentucky, Cory is from New Mexico. “ Invincible was a comic book series that was started in 2003 and it was created by two white guys. “We changed Amber’s race and I think we also expanded that character greatly,” Kirkman explained when asked about the television version of Amber Bennett. We spoke with both Robert Kirkman and Zazie Beetz about this change during the Invincible press junket. Amber, who is one of Mark Grayson’s love interests, also has an expanded role from the original comic counterpart. Among the changes that were made in the transition from comic to series, one major one was changing the character, Amber Bennett, from a blonde character to a Black one. Invincible debuted this past Friday with three episodes to kick off the series.

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