Inhumanity

Inhumanity #1-18

by Matt Fraction, Olivier Coipel (Illustrator), Sam Humphries

After the fall of Attilan and the Terrigen Bomb explosion, thousands of people across the globe have transformed into Inhumans! Their new powers are dangerous and terrifying, making them targets. With Black Bolt believed dead, who can these new Inhumans turn to? As the Avengers face Karnak, who has discovered the Inhumans' secret, Medusa struggles to rule her vastly increased population, and Marvel's heroes - including the Hulk, Spider-Girl, the X-Men, the new Illuminati, Iron Man, the Jean Grey School, Avengers Academy, Luke Cage and the Superior Spider-Man - must cope with the fallout!

COLLECTING: Inhumanity #1-2, Avengers Assemble #21-23, Uncanny X-Men (2013) #15, Indestructible Hulk #17-19, New Avengers (2013) #13, Iron Man (2012) #20.INH, Inhumanity: The Awakening #1-2, Avengers AI #7, Mighty Avengers (2013) #4-5, Inhuman (2014) #1 and Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man #1.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Comic Book

448 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2014

About the author

"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.

Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.

"My mother was not happy about that," he said.

But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."

Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.

Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.

Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."

Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.

- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Infinity + Inhumanity = Insanity

Here’s another kooky, crazy Marvel crossover event, this one designed to give the Inhumans a higher profile and pave the way for their inclusion in the Mighty Marvel Marching Media universe. Boo-yah, Fox Entertainment!

A plot summary: During the Infinity crossover, Thanos invades Earth looking to kill his Inhuman love child. Blackbolt, the King of the Inhumans, destroys Attilan, their floating city, and the Terrigen Mists, the catalyst the Inhumans use to obtain their powers, formerly localized, is now spread throughout globe causing latent Inhumans to cocoon and power up, thus effectively hiding Thanos’ quarry. Whew!

This volume is pretty much like any other main collection of a Marvel crossover – it includes the event issues itself and sundry peripheral tie in comics. It’s hefty not only in terms of weight but also retails for $50. At that cost you would think Marvel would print this on baby skin and it would be absolutely perfect. Nope. The table of contents says this includes Avengers Assemble issues #21-#23 only. Well, Marvel forgot to list Avengers Assemble #24 and #25. So, bonus.

You have a lot chaff – tie in issues from comics that use the Inhumanity storyline as secondary or tertiary plot thread. The stand out here is the aforementioned Avengers Assemble issues. Spider-Girl, not to be confused with the Peter Parker/Mary Jane baby that was stolen from the hospital during the crappy Clone Saga, has a social studies teacher who was cocooned and she’s trying to track him down with the help of the Avengers. She’s fun in an obnoxious teen kind of way and sasses the older Avengers, including the Canuckle Head, Wolverine. Why does Wolverine always end up mentoring the teen-aged girl superheroes?

What’s to like

Hulk calling Karnak “Light Bulb Head Man”. You’re too funny, big guy.

What an absolute ass the Superior Spider Man is to the ersatz Avengers.

Luke Cage and wife whipping that smug Spider-Ass.

Nice to see Monica Rambeau.

The teenage X-Men and Avengers Academy students help a pair of kids cope with their Inhuman powers.

What’s not to like

This volume contains the entire Indestructible Hulk tie which was published in full by itself elsewhere. Wasn’t there an issue of Inhumanity: Pepper Potts they could have thrown in here instead?

Using the “Light Bulb Head Man” as a source for an epically long winded information dump.

Questions

Since when does Tony Stark have a brother?

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mediocre characters and dialogue from Matt Fraction in his aborted run of Inhumans. Depressingly bad in fact. KLANGY dialogue, like something from the worst hacks who didn't have the time to read up on the characters' history.

Not that Inhumans are exactly *easy* to write (my god can they be stuffy and stiff) but this is especially bad, from a dude who can adapt nearly anything with zest, zany and emotion. No wonder he and Marvel both politely allowed him to step away, before this went too far and blew someone's foot off.

I think my experience trying to slog through this book is yet another episode in the continuing adventures of "Mike Wants To Love Inhumans (for the MCU) and Marvel Continues To Prove How Punishing They've Made Inhumans Across All Time". I set out months ago to really go deep and get to know these misfits among misfits. But there is *so* little to love about a race that "holds their heads high" and lives apart from humanity.

It's like trying to maintain a crush on that girl in university who just wore me down with that death stare every chance she got. (Me being an awkward stalker-ish type, trying to understand what I was doing wrong every time I got near her, couldn't possibly have anything to do with it...)

Wait, were we discussing a comic book? Sorry, must've drifted off again.

Banner's run-in with an Inhuman influence is...predictable? No. But not quite surprising either? Maybe it's the effect of the crossover with this event. Maybe it's that the art sucked ass, and left me feeling unenthused. I'll want to keep reading about Banner's adventures, but let's pretend that wasn't there.

Uncanny X-Men issue was just fun - stress relief from all the infighting, except not really (Jean vs Celeste), and a little girlie without being entirely condescending. Also, White Queen's sleep posture. I wonder what sleep number *she* uses?

Avengers Assemble was cool, but I've reviewed that elsewhere because it was entirely a reprint of the trade.

The Iron Man sample issue is enough to assure me I have no interest in this aberration in Gillen's work. Ridiculous "sentient rings" that narrate way too much redundant thinking (even accepting they need to talk to themselves) among all the candidate ring-bearers. Plus, if you're about to attach yourself to a perfect host, why the fuck pick some drunken slob with a gutful of hate and not an Alpha- or Omega-class superhuman? That is the lamest artificial dramatic circumstance for not pitting Iron Man against someone he would have trouble beating (down). Ugh. No interest.

Mighty Avengers I've already read and enjoyed. Still a blast the second time around.

Superior Spider-Man is barely on topic of Inhumans, but tells a tale that's pretty sweet. And the art is fantastic and understated.

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inhumanity deals with the aftermath of Black Bolt setting off the terrigen mist cloud and transforming people who have no clue about their inhuman heritage. It mostly involves cocoons being taken in order to experiment on and to learn the secret of inhuman terrigenesis. A bunch of new inhumans appeared and here are pictures of some of them.






I don't know if any of these characters will appear in later editions of Inhumans or other comics, but some interesting things are happening.

[Sud666 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh the inhumanity of "Inhumanity". I was looking forward to this one and hoping it would be good. It wasn't. It starts off well enough. The Inhumans have released the Terrigen Mists onto Earth and people are turning into Inhumans. Cool. So far I'm in and the first two issues were cool..annnddd then it went off the rails.

Like most modern comic stories it is told in a crossover (think cash grab). That means the story is all over the place and while the Inhumans/Terrigen Mist is the ostensible plot, it's nothing more than a vehicle for telling this story in other titles. The artwork is similarly all over the map from great to mediocre.

Somehow we veer from the Inhumans to the Hulk. Then after Hulk's weird adventures, we get to deal with the damned Avengers, for some reason. Not only is the story even further off now, we have to deal with several spider women..hard to keep track. Was this necessary? Also WTF was Logan thinking with the new outfit? How does that help anything? She still looks rather conscipicous don't you think? At least there was some Bendis-like humor in that phase of the crossover.

Then it shifts to a crappy Iron Man story, then it's Spectacular SpiderMan fighting Luke Cage...if this is making sense, well you are far more involved than I was at this point. The rest is just weird..Dardevil and a Doombot, Luke Cage hires She Hulk...wtf? I'm sorry I wasted my time on this mess. If you feel the need to read this then it's on you. I won't take responsibility.

[Gavin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well...it's a mixed bag. A big damn mixed bag at that. And I've already read some of the stories like all th Indestructible Hulk and the Iron Man and New Avengers.
Do you know what the biggest problem is? The art. It's all over the place and the majority of it is sub-par. Takes away from some of the fairly well written stories.

I also feel like this was very light on actual Inhumans, and anything about what it's doing to them....it's more about the way it affects the human populace.
The collection starts off with possibly the best issue...inhumanity #1 by Matt Fraction, and great art by Oliver Coipel. It also contains a great Hawkeyes joke about him not getting his ass kicked for once... #2 is decent, but the art lets it down and it doesn't have the same power as 1.

Then it's hulk time, and I've read all that before, but it's good stuff, Mark Waid is boom on. But we still get no answer to the cliffhanger at the end!

Bendis has the funniest one of the bunch, but it feels out of place after the tone of everything else...the X-Men girls go shopping...ya. Kitty, Emma, Ilyana, Jean and the Stepfords...run into a new Inhuman who's taken by AIM.

We then get 4 issues of Avengers Assemble, some by Kelly Sue DeConnick, some by Warren Ellis. This mostly covers Spider Girl fitting in with the Avengers, and teaming with various members. It's funny and solid at the same time. Spider Girl is a female Peter Parker if he were a millennial. That's a good thing.
June Covington, evil scientist takes a cocoon and steals powers for herself, the cocoon is of Spider Girl's teacher...she cares and the caring leads Avengers to look into it, and for her to get field time with everyone. Logan and Tony give her the best advice, but she bonds with Spider Woman, and is in awe of Cap, who gives good speech to her. I could read more on this kid...

Then we have the iron man tie in, which I already saw in vol 4 or 5 of iron man...

Mighty Avengers follows, and this is a weak one...Luke Cage runs this team as some sorta Matlock help people for free agency of rejects...somehow Superior Spider Man is on this team? His ego wants to run it, but Luke Cage and She Hulk kick his ass...She Hulk is only their lawyer, not on the actual team. Some ransoms, and someone dressed as Ronin...not sure who he is...but they play up the mystery part.

Avengers AI follows Hank Pym, Vision, Daredevil as they clean up debris from the destruction of Attilan, and keep tech out of the hands of baddies. I liked that this picked up on Hank and Matt and the bond from Daredevil when Hank did brain surgery and gained Matt's memories....decent story about humans impacted by events. Art is like someone drew all the characters as fat.

Inhumanity Awakening is about a sister and brother who transform, and social media the girl live tweets her experiences on...X-kids and Avenger Academy kids play save the day and learn lessons about everyone being a beautiful snowflake....also super annoying Twitter feed and emails exchanging the whole time, too busy for the page....but we get Quentin Quire, which is a bonus...a lot cliche but oh well I suppose this is for teens...

We now get a sepia Superior Spider Man where Otto is helping clean debris and taking most of the Inhuman tech for himself...but it runs into a story about humanity in the face of disaster, and a very nice love letter to the FDNY that turns Otto from dick to nearly Parker level misty eyed hero. The stuff we loved so much about this series...even if it was Christos Gage and not Dan Slott writing...good job. One of the best in the book. Artwork is solid too.

Finally it ends with New Avengers, which only slightly relates to this event, on a parallel Earth...but I'd already read this in New Avengers....

So for a story/event about the Inhumans and the aftermath of Black Bolt destroying Attilan to save the race, and triggering all the Inhuman changes, you sure get a lot of stuff not about Medusa and the Gang at all...I would have loved to see more, but I suppose this is how you tie things together to sell more copies, if I'm being pessimistic.

It's good, but not great, and let down by bad art more often than good, and a real flow problem, like writers were forced to put this into their books even if they didn't want to...it didn't work in some cases...at all...
So take it or leave it, I would say if you haven't already read the Hulk and New Avengers, that along with the Superior, and the Avengers Assemble, and Inhumanity 1, are the crucial books to read here.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked the actual event stuff, but the side issues were all over the place. Most didn’t make much sense unless you had read each individual series. The best solo series run in this was Avengers Assemble. 4/5 for that story arch. Everything else was very meh.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

an okay read half of it is reprinted stuff from Avengers.

[Mohamed Ahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

it is really just a 2 part event and a bunch of tie-ins, and i hate tie-ins
the event itself was good and should be continued in Inhumans, but the tie ins issues was not except for the Hulk issues.
the art varies between the titles and was good in overall

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those rare crossover events that's actually pretty good. There's hardly a bad story in this volume (I can think of one) and the artwork and writing are consistently done at a high level. Basically, the stories all follow in the wake of Thanos' attempt at hunting down and killing his Inhuman son, Thane, and the subsequent release of terrigen gas into the general human population, which results in the creation of hundreds (if not thousands) of new Inhumans (since one of their tribes left in prehistoric times and melded with humanity). So we've got stories of new Inhumans coming to grips with their power, nefarious types hoping to gain control of new Inhumans, bad guys trying to get ahold of Inhuman technology, what have you. And for once, it's not that bad. I have to say I was kind of surprised, since Marvel doesn't exactly have an unblemished track record with these kinds of things lately.

[Daniel Etherington · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good stuff in here, but as with so many of these trade paperbacks of comics from Marvel events, the collection doesn't form a coherent whole. You can't pick it up, read it through and expect it all to make sense. IMHO it's a major flaw in this kind of publishing. I don't really read monthly comics any more and would rather read collections, but when the collections are such a shambles, it's disappointing.

I'd love to read these events, but the chronology and narrative threads are hard to follow in this format. This one for example, starts with the Inhuman Karnak jumping out of a window (Inhumanity #1) then ends with the Illuminati involved in the multiversal war (New Avengers #13), without returning to Karnak. It's really unsatisfying.

[Christian Zamora-Dahmen · Rating 2 out of 5]

It did have its good moments, the Hulk and the Avengers Assemble parts come to mind, but overall, it was an extremely disjointed event.
With story being called "Inhumanity," you'd expect the Inhumans would have take a center spot for the plot, yet they weren't there and they barely played a supporting role, if at all.
I wouldn't have called it an event at all. It was a theme that ran through different books, but putting them together, they become a bit redundant.

[Sonic · Rating 1 out of 5]

Somewhere between mediocre and garbage.
I can't believe I wasted so much time reading this big bunch of crap.
It had a couple BRIEF moments, but not enough to validate a good premise handled in a repeatedly trite and typical way.
It might be good if you are 12,
maybe.

[Jasmine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kelly sue is the best part of this book. The rest is kinda meh.

[Brandon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inhumanity isn't really an event. It's a status quo change, and the main "Inhumanity" issues are recapping it for those who didn't read the previous event "Infinity". It's an idea that has a lot of promise! The Inhumans are a geneocracy, a society that is entirely shaped by your genetic makeup. Those with the most promising genetic background are given access to Terrigenesis, a process that activates your Kree lineage and transforms you from a standard human to an enhanced Inhuman with any possible superpowers and physiology. Sometimes this is extra apendages, sometimes you can fly, sometimes you can shatter planets with the snap of your fingers. Those with the greatest powers become the elite upper class, and those with the worst become the lower class, as the Inhuman Royal Family sits above all. The Inhumans have a slave race of Alpha Primitives who do manual labour, they often keep themselves hidden from humanity so as not to provoke war, and just before this were intergalatic superwarriors who ruled space empires.

But there's something new here. A revelation that there are millions more Inhumans spread across the globe! A sect of the Inhumans, way way way in the past, split off from the main Inhuman civilization and their descendents have scattered across the globe. When Black Bolt and Maximus set off a Terrigenesis bomb that rocks the Earth, people from all around are starting to transform into Inhumans. Their secret lineage is being revealed by force! What was once a religious rite has become a global pandemic. The strict elite few are now surrounded by millions of new people to challenge them and to take care of.

If only it were actually good, damn. There are so many possibilities! Terrigenesis being a religious act makes the global terrigienesis some sort of rapture, but that doesn't get touched on here. The revelation of past ancestry could be a big deal when everyone realizes they have a culture they owe respect to, but they don't do anything with it. The upheaval of the class system could be important but that's barely a footnote. This book just introduces the concept of the Terrigen bomb and starts to explore the Marvel universe being scared and trying to 'solve it'. Even the tie-ins are most just scared people not knowing what to do.

My favourite issues of this book are the Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man one-shot, the Indestructible Hulk arc, and then the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers issues (though these two series it's mostly because those series are great, not because the tie-ins are any revelant). It's such a nothing event, not really worth reading, but there are isolated moments of good throughout.

[Logan Harrington · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10:
I have to admit, I enjoyed this more than I expected. This collection starts off by detailing the events that caused this entire Inhumanity event within Marvel Comic’s Earth-616. The way that Karnak and Medusa detail the events that caused Attilan to fall to Earth was absolutely heartbreaking and I would’ve loved for this event (focused on Inhumans) to centralize around the Inhumans we already know and love.

However, there are some seriously awesome stories throughout this collection, namely with Hulk and Spider-Girl:

We get to watch Hulk meet an Inhuman monster and come to terms with the similarities in which they share with one another. Analyzing his anger allowed us to see deeper into the mind of Bruce Banner and the struggles he has on a daily basis with Hulk.

When it comes to Spider-Girl, we get to see her youth in a very real way that also showed how the Avengers truly cared about her concerns. She gets to learn and work alongside heroes that she’s always looked up to such as Black Widow, Spider-Woman, Hulk, Wolverine, and Iron Man where each of these individuals helps her to find herself.

All in all, one of the more solid events that I’ve read from Marvel Comics, particularly one that spans so many different titles from the time!

[Eric Monette]

In my comic book era

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's some 5 star material in this collection but it's in the minority. Partly annoyed the book didn't feature the Inhuman royal family much, they're minor player here. A few chapters are new material but most is pulled from on-going titles like Hulk, Mighty Avengers, etc.

It's all about the Terrigen Bomb that destroyed the Inhuman floating city and the aftermath. Now the Marvel universe is dealing with hundreds of thousands new Inhumans, all of whom never even knew that they were not regular humans.

So basically, the Inhumans have been made to be a carbon copy of Mutants. Is Marvel doing this because another company owns the rights to the X-men film universe? I suspect that is so.

Marvel's mutant population, once on the brink of extinction, is also back to growing in huge numbers. Not sure I like either event. What's Marvel going to do with millions of super-powered people?

[Judah Radd · Rating 2 out of 5]

***second read***

Miserably boring. Horrible. Pointless. Avoid at all costs.

****First read****
😴 💤

And that’s about the gist here.

The terrigen mist that was released in Infinity (remember that? It was the least interesting subplot of the entire arc) is making a bunch of random people have super powers, and there are a bunch of random side stories where all of the heroes have to sort of deal with it in their own way.

This whole book feels like filler. Every issue is a side quest. Nothing here seems to really matter.

Since it’s a combination of different issues from different writers/artists, the stories and art are pretty inconsistent. The Hulk story wasn’t bad. The Spiderman story was abysmal. My favorite was actually the one with Spidergirl (Añya). She’s a fun character and she had a neat little mystery to solve. I liked it. The rest of this shit is shit.

[Nadine in NY Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a big book, compiling twenty issues from ten different titles. That surprised me. As a result, this is a somewhat uneven collection. It's basically an anthology of short stories from different authors & artists.

The thing that disappointed me most is that NOTHING HAPPENS. This is 448 pages of Nothing Happening, with Pictures. A crossover is fun because it can introduce you to new series, and Inhumanity does that very well. This was fun. But a GOOD crossover also moves the story forward with each issue. There was none of that. With each new title, we start all over again at the beginning: Atillan just exploded, Terrigen mists, cocoons, yadda yadda yadda ohnowhatwillwedo [yawn].

I don't even know why I'm giving it three stars.

If you want to pick this up from your library just to read the parts from your favorite title or favorite writer or favorite artist, go for it. Feel free to skip ahead to the good parts. You won't miss anything.

Issue (writer / artist):

Inhumanity #1-2 (Fraction / Coipel, Bradshaw & Nauck) - a good intro, decent art

Indestructible Hulk #17-20 (Waid / Mann, Sepulveda, Raapack, et al) - Hulk sure is extra tetchy in "Indestructible Hulk" - really didn't like the art from Raapack & Sepulveda

Uncanny X-Men #15 (Bendis / Anka) - "girls night out" is silly fun, once I got used to it and a young Jean Grey - the art was simple but I grew to like it, sort of manga-esque

Avengers Assemble #21-25 (DeConnick & Ellis / Buffagni & Diaz) - maybe I just like everything from DeConnick, because these were my favorite

Iron Man #20 (Gillen / Padilla) - this was a very silly story about ten eeeeevil rings, with a lot of pointless filler; didn't care for the art, and Ironman managed to be boring.

Mighty Avengers #4-5 (Ewing / Land) - that was a lot of fun! Quippy dialogue, page Layout was crisp. The art was good enough but Land has trouble drawing unique faces, the women all looked like either Halle Berry or Charisma Carpenter. I'd read more from this series.

Avengers AI #7 (Humphries / Araujo) - dull story but interesting European-style art

Inhumanity: The Awakening #1-2 (Kindt / Davidson) - dull story AND unappealing art!

Inhumanity: Superior Spider-man #1 (Gage / Hans) - not memorable

New Avengers #13 (Hickman / Bianchi) - great art, crappy story (was there even a story??)













characters I learned about:

* Hank Pym aka Ant-Man aka "Size-changing. Weirdo" (per Bruce Banner's inner thoughts.)

* T'Challa aka Black Panther (at first I thought this was Batman, because of his costume, all black with little ears! I was so confused...)

* Karnak - Inhuman who can see the flaw in all things. I think he found a flaw in himself and killed himself.

* Medusa - Queen of the Inhumans, lotsa red hair, I think she's supposed to be badass but she's drawn like a ditz, all wide-eyed and pouty-mouthed, prone to tears.

* Gorgon - random bad-tempered Inhuman

* Melinda Leucenstern, Daman Veteri, Randall Jessup, Patricia Wolman- Banner's research assistants.

* Ilyana Rasputin aka Magic - X-man, can teleport between dimensions; younger sister of Peter Rasputin (Colossus).

* Tempus - X-man, can create time bubbles

* Spidergirl aka Anya Corazon

* Kashmir Vennema - inter dimensional arms dealer w A. I. M. - she's partnered w alternate versions of herself in multiple dimensions.

* Dr June Covington - geneticist aka "The Toxic Doxie"

* Spectrum aka Monica Rambeau, electro-magnetic

* White Tiger & Power Man - young Avengers

* Falcon - SHIELD & Avenger, can fly and ??

* Dave Griffith - buddies w Luke Cage

* Barbara McDevitt aka Quickfire - corporate spy and newly inhuman, controls time, provides security to Jason Quantrell CEO of Cortex zinc

* Jen aka She-Hulk, Luke Cage's ex and a lawyer. Wears ridiculously skimpy outfit. Not very hulk-like, but green and strong.

* Maria Hill - SHIELD director

[Krzysztof Grabowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Album zawiera ogrom kontentu w tym: Inhumanity #1-2, Avengers Assemble #21-23, Uncanny X-Men (2013) #15, Indestructible Hulk #17-19, New Avengers (2013) #13, Iron Man (2012) #20.INH, Inhumanity: The Awakening #1-2, Avengers AI #7, Mighty Avengers (2013) #4-5, Inhuman (2014) #1 oraz. Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man #1. Ufff.

Szkoda tylko, że z ilością nie wiąże się jakość, bo poszczególne tie-in mają różną klasę. Jedne są fajne, inne z kolei to typowe, nużące zapychacze...

Najlepiej jest na początku. Aby ratować rasę Inhumans przed Thanosem Black Bolt podjął się ostatecznego kroku. W walce z Szalonym Tytanem użył swojego głosu i rozwalił Attilan w drobny mak. Jednakże podczas incydentu doszło też do rozpylenia mgły z terrigenezy, która pozwala na mutację wszystkich nieaktywnych jeszcze przedstawicieli tej rasy i dokonać swoistego udoskonalenia. Tyle, że tak samo jak w przypadku mutantów, tu transformacja wcale nie musi się łączyć z super mocą i pięknym wyglądem...

Black Bolt wraz z bratem znikają, a ciężar rządów spada na królowę Meduzę, która ma nie lada orzech do zgryzienia. Trzeba zebrać porozrzucanych podwładnych i zapewnić im bezpieczeństwo, bo nagle społeczność Inhumans wystrzeliła w górę. Wie o tym Karnak, którego zeszyt był zdecydowanie najlepszy. Dalej mamy przebudzenia z kokonów, albo próby przechwycenia takowych przez złe organizacje/złoczyńców. I tak w koło Macieju. Zdecydowana większość materiału jest nastawiona na prostą i radosną rąbankę, niewiele dając w zasadzie od siebie.

A to dlatego, że większość tego zbioru już przeczytałem przy okazji kontaktu z innymi seriami. I śmiem twierdzić, że cała historia nie ucierpiała by za nadto, gdyby tytuł zawierał tylko cztery główne zeszyty, przy czym trzy z nich są takie sobie.

Taki sam problem mam z kreską. Autorów, którzy tu pracowali jest od groma i jeszcze trochę. Style się mieszają, niestety z negatywnym skutkiem. Jak zobaczyłem arty z Avengers A.I., New Avengers czy Uncanny X-men to myślałem, że sobie oczy wydłubię...

Reasumując. Każdy dobry event spod marki Marvela chętnie przyjmę, ale zbiór Marvel NOW! cierpi zdecydowanie na deficyt takowych. Inhumanity samo w sobie niestety nie ma takiego rozmachu, intrygującej fabuły czy nawet potencjału. Ot, słabo wykorzystania szansa po wydarzeniach z Infinity.

[Villain E · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, that was kind of awful.

Over in Infinty, Black Bolt and Maximus blew up Attilan to keep it out of the hands of Thanos (or something like that, I had trouble following the logic). This released a Terrigen cloud which is floating around the world. Turns out, since the Inhunans have been around for millenia, they've mated with the human population over the years and there are a lot of people with latent Inhuman DNA. The Terrigen cloud is triggering Terrigenisis in these people and creating a bunch of new superhumans.

In this volume we get the two issue Inhumanity series, the two issue Inhumanity: The Awakening series, special issues of Iron Man and Superior Spider-Man, and some issues of Indestructible Hulk, Uncanny X-men and multiple Avengers books. (Not in that order.) They all have something to do with people disappearing into pods and coming out changed.

First problem is the big editorial decision to have Inhumans replace mutants. You can't just force something like that. Marvel's mutants are popular because of years of good stories and characters. They weren't an instant success. The X-Men was cancelled in 1970, then made a comeback years later.

Second, I feel like the writers knew this wasn't a good idea and just phoned it in. Most of what's collected here isn't good.

Third, the real pisser for me is the complete disdain for continuity. Continuity is the foundation of a shared universe, especially crossovers, but in the 00's they made an official decision to stop caring about continuity. Like in this volume where the stories have an order they should be placed in, but they're not. Some of these happen immediately after the fall of Attilan, some happen weeks later, but they're not in the right order. Something happens in the Hulk story which should remove him from the board, but he shows up in the Avengers story. The editors can't even be bothered with continuity inside one collection. This is one of the reasons why I don't buy monthly comics anymore.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Inhumanity directly after finishing Infinity under the assumption that the two event series would serve as bookends to each other. Turns out that while the whole Terrigenesis thing happens during the Infinity event, this Inhumanity book is not so much an event series as a collection of random Marvel comics that mention Terrigenesis at least once. So, uh, don't expect a cohesive narrative to tie these 400+ pages together.

That said, most of the parts of Inhumanity are fine, even if they don't add up to a distinct whole. I particularly liked the Avengers Assemble issues. I particularly disliked the one-issue additions like the Iron Man one that allowed almost no time for any sort of plot to develop. Just as I was getting over wondering why Tony Stark had a brother, the issue ended and we were on to the next thing (Avengers A.I., incidentally, which was also bizarre).

I honestly liked this better than Infinity because it featured more street-level settings in which characters could speak like actual humans rather than plot-moving devices. But at least Infinity had an overarching narrative (well actually, it had about a dozen). I'd be interested in reading the Inhumans series since I think that would actually meet my expectations for what Inhumanity might have been.

[Peter Poletti · Rating 1 out of 5]

A weak, disjointed storyline with no central characters and weak dialogue. It may be a function of the inclusion of at least half a dozen different monthly titles, but the art is all over the place. Some of the art is good but other issues included in the collection seem to have been done by amateurs who haven’t quite gotten the hang of drawing comics. Then there’s the ridiculous and unnecessary nod to social media and tweets in some of the issues: not a good decision and likely something that will age poorly. Instead of trying so hard to pander to teens on Twitter, the writers should have outlined an arresting story with compelling characters.

For me, the worst thing was the apparent need for bizarre alterations to established characters, such as Doctor Octopus “inhabiting” the body of Spider-Man. But even that could be forgivable had the storyline actually been developed through the book. I kept thinking, “What has happened to Marvel,” as I read this collection. I wonder if Marvel Comics did not really outlive the late, great Stan Lee.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading Infinity, I just wanted to get through the Avengers Assemble issues of this collection. Part of my lukewarm response to Infinity and this HC is that I'm not a huge fan of team books, cosmic stuff, or giant events. Hickman's Infinity and Avengers Assemble storylines felt intentionally morose, and it felt to me like he was over-reaching in his attempts to construct a "deep," complex story. I enjoyed the lighter issues of this collection a lot better, especially the ones with Spider-Girl, and, surprisingly, The Hulk issues.

[J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I will praise the individual artist and writers in the book, because many of the stories are well done, interesting, and varied. But the overarching plotline--the "Inhumanity" event itself--is absolute garbage. In a perpetual attempt to replace the X-Men by Inhumans (to serve the MCU and the Almighty Dollar), Marvel has managed to ruin all of the interesting things about the classic Inhumans, without managing to make the new Inhumans anything except Knock-Off Brand Mutants. Great job, Marvel!

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inhumanity is the natural next act of the Infinity saga in which Thanos and Black Bolt's action lead to a new Marvel Universe. Sadly, this collection is a pretty random hodgepodge of Inhumanity adjacent books. The main story is only two issues long and has no ending. The events here are so large in scale but at times it seems they're being downplayed. As an event, this is a large miss. The individual pieces here should be judged on their own as part of their own books. Overall, a disappointment.

[Linnea · Rating 2 out of 5]

As other reviews mention -- this is a very mixed bag with mid to below-averagely interesting stories with mid to just plain unattractive art. Not really an Inhumans fan but there are many interesting ways the aftermath of Attilan falling could have been told and not one of them are in this book here. The only book in this hodgepodge compilation was Mighty Avengers and that had almost nothing to do with the Inhumans, which should tell you something.

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a whole, I enjoyed Inhumanity because it was generally informative concerning the Inhuman situation. It is rather disjointed, and some comic issues within are much better than others (more Matt Fraction really would have been a plus), but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

[Jirka Navrátil · Rating 2 out of 5]

Měl jsem hype na Inhumans, ale docela mě to zklamalo, protože jsem čekal, že tam budou jen Inhumans a přitom tam bylo trošku z Hulka, trošku z Iron Mana atd... Jedna z mála Marvel NOW! věcí co mě moc nebavila.

[Sam Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tie-Ins Ranked (Worst to Best)

10. Iron Man #20.1
9. Uncanny X-Men #15
8. Inhumanity: The Awakening #1-2
7. Avengers A.I. #7
6. New Avengers #13
5. Mighty Avengers #4-5
4. Inhumanity #1-2
3. Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man #1
2. Indestructible Hulk #17-19
1. Avengers Assemble #21-23