Exciting news for fans of the Invincible Universe! Skybound and Image Comics revealed the amazing lineup of variant covers for the highly anticipated Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1, which reunites the Invincible creative team of writer Robert Kirkman and artist Ryan Ottley. The new ongoing series promises to reveal the secret story of Battle Beast, a fan favorite character created by Kirkman and Ottley nearly two decades ago.

Here’s what the publisher is saying about the series:

Cursed with an unquenchable thirst for violence that threatens those he loves, Battle Beast searches the universe for the one warrior mightier than him...so that he may die before harming anyone else. But even in a universe of mighty Viltrumites like Invincible and Omni-Man, it seems that no one may be able to stop the galaxy’s deadliest warrior...unless he does the unthinkable. 

Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 will be available on April 23, 2025 with a long-list of cover options:

• Main cover by Ryan Ottley and Annalisa Leoni

• Open-to-order cover by David Finch

• Incentive variant covers by E.J. Su, Kael Ngu, Arthur Adams, and Jonboy Meyers

• Battle Beast die-cut mask foil cover by Ottley & Leoni

• 1:1000 incentive CGC signed/graded foil version of Ottley's main cover

• 1:2000 incentive Ryan Ottley Original Art Sketch Cover

To make things even more exciting, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 will also feature a unique “blind bag” program. Fans will have the chance to receive any of the solicited covers, plus the possibility of finding rare, surprise comics related to the Invincible Universe. These surprise comics will remain a secret until the issue's release!