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[Eric Cartman]

Invincible has weirdly slow pacing and I don’t get why. It’s relatively faithful to the comic but everything drags on longer than it should. There’s no energy to it. The old superhero cartoons like Batman and Justice League managed to do it all in 23 minutes. Invincible episodes often push past 40 minutes and there’s less happening.

Think part of it is trying to have “natural” dialogue. Reading the comic, a dialogue heavy scene is a page of speech bubbles. You can read through it in seconds. The show adapts it as a five to ten minute scene of slow talking with pauses. Holding on blank expressions of cartoon characters.

the unstated premise is "what if spiderman, but as superman X goku?" so DBZ pacing is in its DNA as much as expository monologuing in the middle of a fight is