story time

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>>91132714

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>>91132733
Ah, the name boxes. That's how you know it is an Ewing comic.

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>>91132754

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>>91132771

>>91132714
Thought that was Doom for a second there. His green cloak is pretty iconic

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>>91132786

>inhuman prime before x-men prime
Reeeeee shills get out

>>91132714
SHITHUMANS GET O- wait, Ewing? Okay, fine.

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>>91132803
>>91132800
It's the grey skin, If Karnak had a healthy skin color it wouldn't look like the mask at first glance.

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>>91132867

On one hand I hope everything Inhuman crashes and burns forever until this stupid fucking push is over. On the other, Ewing and the possibility of a good plot that restores the characters.

>>91132786
Haha, *that*'s our Maximus!

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>>91132885

>>91132885
Am I the only one who feels like Kamala and Moon Girl, and probably Mosaic, would be much stronger characters if they didn't keep tying them to the Inhumans?
(On the other hand, Reader's there, and I love Reader.)

>>91132889
This. Honestly I scribe to the idea there aren't any bad characters just bad writers. Every character under the right writer has a potential to be awesome. Case in point your edgy punisher stories vs actual good Frank ones.

>>91132885
Kamala sure is good at micromanaging her time.

>>91132754

>an

Having I been pronouncing his name wrong? Is it "ooing" or "yoowing"?

>>91132885
Did moon girls ongoing get canceled? She seems like wallpaper for inhuman comics now.

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>>91132899
>BB gets with blast so strong it the shockwave knocks down the weaker Inhumans
At least he past the days of getting hurt by Emma punches.

>>91132910
It wouldn't change anything for Kamala, but it is a big plot point for Lunella. Mosaic hasn't done enough to go either way.

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>>91132951
>>91132940
>moon girl
>getting cancelled
It is still going, I believe the scholastic deal keeps it alive.

Is the power of the abilities that the unspoken can choose tied to the amount of Terrigen he ingests? He keeps choosing the most basic powers.

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>>91132885
>royal family
>Kamala
>Moon Girl
>is that Daisy Johnson in the background?
>a bunch of fucking no-name useless OCs and a cat
Ah yes, nice franchise you got for yourself Marvel

>>91132910
With Kamala the Inhuman angle added some interesting belonging issues that fit the character well. Moon Girl and Mosaic could've derived their powers from their lineage for all I care (preteen girl being scared of a cloud that would forcefully change her was a cute metaphor) but tying them with the IvX and general inhuman bullshit going on was a fucking mistake

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>>91132986
>Kamala vs Black Bolt
>>91132985
yes

>>91132971
>>91132986
That's a pretty cool power.

>>91133016
>Woke youth
brb killing myself

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>>91133048

>>91133024
Oh, come on, that's hilarious.

Link please?

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>>91133059

>>91133059
>>91133076
>"gor was right"

>>91133082
This better not turn into another one of those things.

>>91132971
>the power of BB's voice being subtly brought back to being an AoE instakill
Thanks, Al Ewing

>>91132935
I always pronounced it more closely to "yoowing" myself

>>91132940
She's the only one smart enough to solve the Terrigen problem so she gets a free ride

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>>91133076
They have him the Ahura special
>>91133069
Go to the Win-o thread anon

>>91133092
iirc the solits say the secret gets out early

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>>91133119
Nepotism can't save you now

>>91133048
>Loki Maximus
LAoA was such a good comic
Let Ewing channel a little of that voice except creepier and more unhinged and it wouldn't be a bad fit for Maximus as opposed to CUHRAZEE or just "semisane but always scheming"

>>91132914
She is the inhuman Wolverine, her power is multitasking.

>>91132971

Does Ewing not read comics? Black Bolt has used his voice several times in Uncanny Inhumans and IvX and nobody so much as got hurt. He literally hit Johnny with a full-on blast and he was perfectly fine.

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>>91133152
(You)

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>>91133159
Jesus DD and Lockjaw look horrifying

>>91133159
Medusa is a cunt.

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>>91133175

>>91133152
Then those were stupidly written comic books
Even if Black Bolt was heavily nerfed after Infinity his voice should still be extremely powerful
Maybe not Jenkins powerlevels but nearly there as it's always been portrayed to be

>>91133119
This does seem more in line with the writer's political views than Medusa's character. If she ever went for something similar they should've at least recalled her old rebellious self and how a few people being allowed to rule out of tradition doesn't make you see better or newer solutions. It's not like she doesn't understand the burden of monarchy or the fact that royals are literally and GENETICALLY brought up to be the best of the best
Also
>my brother-in-law
It's not like you wouldn't be relatives anyway

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>>91133223

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>>91133239
Hey baby, I herd you liked assholes with silver hair.

>>91133175
>you can't ignore us
keep telling yourself that
we'll see what the sales have to say about that

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>>91133277
And next week

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>>91133290
>>91133289
>in this thread
>reading this comic
It's too late anon Ike already has you in the palm of his hand.

>>91133277
>Come with me if you want to be awesome.
It works so much better in this context.

>>91133119
>>91133223
>no more scurrying from refuge to refuge
>the days of inhumans being sealed away are long gone
Now I understand the metaphor and all but what happened to the subplot of polluted air being fucking POISONOUS to "pure" Attilan-born Inhumans? It's not like they were hiding solely out of spite

>>91132971
>fainted giant Kamala
Would you, /co/?

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>>91133323

>>91133304
>Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward
>those names
How are they not going to Holy War?

>>91133322
Reed cured that decades ago

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>>91133175
I have no words.

>>91132986
nice

>>91133348
They're both atheists, surprisingly enough.

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>>91132754
>Everyone likes a bit of Banter don't they?
Pussy ass Americans don't Maximus

>>91133470
>Ewing is English

Maybe banter is brit thing

>>91132971
>if BB used his voice at this range
>literally shouted at illusionCyclops while Medusa was right beside him

>>91133402
Didn't they still have an air-filtering dome when Attilan was positioned above Atlantis from Atlantis Attacks to the end of MK Inhumans though?
Anyway my main point still stands, yes they used to be xenophobic as fuck but they literally couldn't have come out of the refuge until very recently

>>91133223
Thats a hilarious looking BB

>>91133138
This artist did a great job showing Medusa as the real hag she is.

>>91132714
Time for Ewing to save the Inhumans

>>91133175
>you can't ignore us

we meta now

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>>91133529
>Didn't they still have an air-filtering dome when Attilan was positioned above Atlantis from Atlantis Attacks to the end of MK Inhumans though?
They did, I thought it was defense thing since they used it to block the tank fire.

>Anyway my main point still stands, yes they used to be xenophobic as fuck but they literally couldn't have come out of the refuge until very recentlyAnyway my main point still stands, yes they used to be xenophobic as fuck but they literally couldn't have come out of the refuge until very recently
You are right, they couldn't have even if they wanted to. However the story focusing on the part where they never wanted to. Of course way back in 60s-70s the Inhumans actually were trying to join humanity, it is even the reason Medusa joined the f4. They didn't go back to wanting to be isolated until sometime in the 80s.

>>91133769
This was pretty awesome. Noh varr is cool, royals seems promising. Nice to see that moon girl and kamala will be left alone.

>>91133509
Soule doesn't know how Black Bolt's power works. Treat everything you read under Soule as dubiously canon.

>>91132985
He's not that creative.

>>91133076
>Husband
>Medusa not going full bitch mode when Blackagar whisks her off
Oh thank God.

>>91133769

Is that from the story where Reed was forced to comatize Franklin because his powers were going haywire, after which Sue divorced him, ran off to fuck Namor and then helped him attack the surface world?

>>91133223
Oh hey, it's that inhuman from Secret Avengers' Inhumanity tie-in that had all of one appearance ever. That's our Ewing.

>>91133223
Ewing has done more with Karnak and Triton being brothers in this one comic than the past like 10 fucking years of Inhumans stories.

>>91133223
Holy shit! That's the girl from the Secret Avengers Infinity tie in issues! Ewing actually remembered her!

>>91133236
Page missing?

>>91134024
No, that anon posted another image. I guess he deleted to not throw off the story time.

>>91133930
That attack was fake, part of a plan to reunite sue and reed. Those issues were great and really in character.

>>91134124

If I recall correctly, Sue didn't know it was fake.

>>91132885
I have no idea who more then half of these faggots are

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>>91134216
>Lettered preview thing
ftfy

Black Bolt (though unlettered pages are on someone's Twitter), and Secret Warriors (possibly Secret Empire spoilers) are shown in that sampler but as covers only. Generation X is the only unlettered preview (but B&W) shown, and All-New Wolverine #19 (is there someone read that on Unlimited?) has an uncolored lettered preview.

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>>91134265

Is fucking anyone gonna preview X-Men Prime?

Turns out Terrigen Crystals are actually made from Skrulls. Because that's just how the Kree roll.

>>91134377
Feel free to storytime it.

>>91134390
Skrull milk?

>>91133847
Man, Soule really wrote BB like a deflated cuck didn't he? It's going to be awhile before BB can bounce back from that.

>>91133076
>Husband

What a cuck

>>91133289
Sales lol. They'll keep pushing the inhumans just like they keep pushing Carol. Once sales dip to 20K, then they'll have a nice new #1 ready to launch and rinse repeat.

>>91133969
>>91134013
YES! She was super cute and I'm glad to see her again doing fine and not being thrown in superprison forever

>>91134715
As long as Ewing stays on, they can make every issue a #1 for all I care.

Daily reminder that Maximus switched places with Black Bolt and Inhumans just sent BB to prison, while thinking it was Maximus.

>>91134917
X-Men Prime was a garbage issue.

>>91134917
Nigga just do it yourself

>>91135002
and this is mega-garbage issue. your point?

>>91134985
Oh shit, you're probably right.

>>91134917
if you gave as many fucks as you're pretending you'd have done it yourself by now

>>91135022
Nah, pal, this one was actually fairly decent, if you don't count the art going to shit, when the Bryan Hitch wannabe takes over the reigns from Ryan Sook.

>>91132885
Who the fuck is that shiny chrome character?

>>91135078
Not sure. She's not from Soule's run, which means Ewing probably dug her out of some single panel appearance in an older comic.

>>91132885
>>91135078
And the chicken between Inferno and Crystal?

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>>91135078
Ewing pulling an Ewing and using a one off character from start of uncanny Inhumans.

>>91135124
Oh right, I guess she is from Soule's run then. Funny that Ewing went out of his way to acknowledge all of these random inhumans that Soule created when his comic isn't going to use a single one of them other than Flint. Hell, Secret Warriors isn't using any of them either since Inferno was basically a Fraction-creation.

>>91132714
>Moon Girl
How do we make it go away

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>>91132714
>Ewing

>>91133119
Man, the royal family is one of the things that made Inhumans different from mutants, why they throwing that away.

>>91135478
Same reason Doom is no longer king of Latveria and Wakanda is getting turned into a republic. Marvel seems to have a "no more monarchies" policy. Luckily, Based Namor is still King of the Sea.

>>91135154
I'm just sad that my waifu Tongue isn't here.

>>91133027
FUCK YOU< SWINE< FUCK YOU< FUCK YOU.

>>91132714
>Next issue, Al Ewing replaces the Royals with black people.

>>91132714
Okay, which one has secretly been gay Ewing you predictable SJW shit.

>>91132835
>>91133717
And the Ewing faggots come out to defend their dark prince.

>>91133236

>This does seem more in line with the writer's political views than Medusa's character.

Exactlly. Honestly, they removed everything that made Inhuman society remotelly interesting. Now they are just Mutants with better PR.

>>91135712
Wasn't Noh-Varr already confirmed bi in Gillen's Young Avengers? So, him. Also, Swain is gay.

>>91135692
>>91135712
>>91135735
You're trying way too hard.

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>>91133027
Oh yay, yet another Tumblr girl to our rescue.

>>91133175
And another one as the Inhuman Maria Hill

>>91133277
And now its Morrison's terrorist self-insert

>>91134238
Shut the fuck up, you obnoxious piece of shit. Jesus Christ, I hate Swine so much. What a garbage character.

>>91134985
Them bb will be doubly cuck because I'm sure that cunt Medusa constantly needs a cock in her and that'll be maximus cock for a while........ although it will still be bb body....... Oz that count?

>>91135887
Wouldn't be the first time Maximus' cock was in and around her mouth. Nor would it be the first time that someone pretending to be Black Bolt's cock was in and around her mouth.

>>91132786
Oh, nice paneling as he takes over.

>>91133979
I always found their kinship underdeveloped. The only instant when I really was remembered that they are brothers were in the 2000 Inhumans series in which Karnak saves Tritons life.

>>91135824
Swain is swell, though.

>>91132951
Oh, that's Panacea!

>>91135758
I don't think it will last, it was something thrown at the end of IvX that won't be apart of any of the books. Royals and BB are set in space, and Only one of the Secret warriors cast lives in Attilan. It probably end up as a power struggle way down line. Why give them a book called Royals after ending the monarchy?

>>91136115
Too much bootie, not enough tootie.

>>91136181
Nah, Panacea shows up later. That's the chick that showed up for like one page in Uncanny Inhumans #1.

>>91132899
not gonna lie, that's one hell of a third panel

>>91133119
>i am not your queen
>inhumans
>ever saying this

please stop, what was the point of pushing the inhumans if you are gonna neuter what made them cool in the first place

>>91136224
Plus the Inhumans show/"movie" comes out this fall and Marvel is incapable of not going all in on the synergy.

>>91135953
Hearing about Medusa taking different dicking despite being married makes me want to bury mine in her.

>>91133024
How do you not see that as taking the piss

>>91133119
>>91133138
Not keen on this at all.

>>91133175
You know at least this establishes the new Inhuman status quo involving all the nuHumans without breaking their society. Something like this should have been done in-story a long time ago, rather than trying to halfheartedly have both worlds.

>>91136634
Soule'd.

>>91136396
I get the logic, they gave up terrigen and if they are sacrificing one part of there culture why not another.But there are two problems. One problem is that nobody was pushing for this. If Inhumans were rallying for a regime change or that would be one thing, but it was just added on with no build up. I could see her passing the throne but ending the monarchy is a whole different story. The other problem is they aren't actually giving up Terrigen they are jumping the first chance they to start making it again. Unless Ewing wants the Inhumans to be the old way and just has to deal with what Soule left him for time being.

>>91135022
I'm so sorry X-friend. I know it's hard for you and all your autist X-pals to accept, but today the Inhumans have won.

>>91136689
I think it's at least partly editorial.

>>91133416
That entire panel was that bad. You shouldn't have cropped any part of it out.

>>91136689
that's more the fault of bad event writing. several inhuman factions but apparently every prominent character joins attilan. Then they turn attilan into generic mutant city state

I think they are also forgetting that inhuman genetics go to shit in a few generations making people lose their humanoid shapes unless they employ eugenics programs. Arguably, no longer having the pressure of your kid becoming a monster because you received the wrong dick is something inhumans would prefer.

But yeah, you are right. Jumping at the first change of making more terrigen is dumb when they dropped most of their major traditions.

>>91133027
If all that Tumblr is could be distilled into a panel in a comic book, it's Captain Swain.

>>91133277
Noh-Varr. Sweet. I never liked how he was unceremoniously disappeared after the Heroic Age.

>>91133048
>>91133059
Good to see Ewing picked up something writers tend to miss with Maximus. He always plays they fool with everybody else, but is completely serious whenever he is alone with Black Bolt.

>>91132733
You'd think that Noh-Varr would have noticed this earlier

>>91132786
>My brother
When was the lat time a writer remembered that Triton and Karnak are brothers? It's almost never brought up and they don't act like brothers either.

>>91137720
Not really any reason for him to give a fuck.

>>91133048
>mutant killing cloud
MAXIMUS BLAMES THE INHUMANS FOR IvX! Maximus is the TRUE King

>>91132951
I think this is the biggest that Kamala has ever grown

I kinda miss the original crazy-ass Maximus the Mad, now he's just Loki-Lite.

>>91137812
I mean, he's the one who built the bomb even if it was on BB's orders. If anyone is to blame for that thing killing mutants, it's him.

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>>91133076
shitty artwork, issue one, bra-vo

>>91133223
So Triton got away with everything? You'd think the US government would be mad that he broke out of one of their prisons, that and the whole blowing up Stark Tower thing.

>>91132733
>>91133277
I wonder, since the First Firmament was first mentioned in Marvel Boy, will he play a role in Ultimates or the Eternity War later on?

>>91138116
Have you seen how they live in the Tower of Wisdom? He was better off in prison.

>>91136857
He was in Gillen's Young Avengers.

>>91137754
yes but this is Al "Digging up a mentioned off-hand cosmic threat created by morrison to use as a current cosmic threat" Ewing

>>91133027
>Hates mind control
>Influences foreign officials to accept Inhuman sovereignty

>>91134216
>>91134224
>>91134238
>That art

Good bye.

>>91137999
This is just a one-shot, not the first issue of an ongoing.

>>91138144
Considering he's the only person in the Marvel Universe right now with experience with the First Firmament, there's no fucking way that Royals doesn't get wrapped into Eternity War.

>>91138612
>hating on JonBoy Meyers
But why? He's way better than the trash they had doing this issue.

>>91134985
Yeah that seemed pretty obvious

If this is how Ewing is writing Royals I'm on board.
As long as it actually has substance and isn't just meta marvel jokes and constant callbacks to old stuff because that's how Ultimates turned out and it's fucking boring.

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>>91133416

So it looks like Ewing isn't going to follow-up on the "Maximus knows how to make more Terrigen but isn't telling" plot.

>>91133076
>>91133107
>>91133138
>>91133304
>Maximus sent to a space prison
>Black Bolt solo: Black Bolt in a space prison
M... Maximus dind't pull an Octopus, did he?

>>91134254
Why do they go by ship? Can't they just use Lockjaw to get there?

>>91139255
Oh, and now that I've read that part, this seems even more likely
>>91134281
>he is his brother's keeper
SUPERIOR BLACKBOLT INCOMING!

>>91133016
Whats the extent of Maximus' mind control?

>>91136857
I don't understand why Bendis would take Marvel Boy, strip him of his personality, give him a lame costume, a lame name (The Protector? Seriously?) and then put him on the Avengers only to do nothing of value with him whatsoever.

>>91133027
I can already tell shes going to be my least favourite member of the royals cree

>>91133048
He'd be a great king

>>91132971
She sure is going to be in pain for weeks after this.

>>91133277
Quicksilver is best silver haired asshole though. A perfect mix of arrogance and genuine desire to protect those important to him.

>>91139229
How so? Maximus will be one of the main characters in Royals, so that storyline has a clear chance of continuing.

>>91133277
Did he travel through time?
Or is this just the thing he came up with while standing out there for an hour?

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Interview and Black Bolt preview

CBR: You’re picking up Black Bolt after what’s been a pretty eventful couple of years for the character. So what’s your sense of your protagonist? Which aspects of his personality are you especially interested in exploring?

Saladin Ahmed: Despite the fact that he’s been around 50 years we’ve really almost always seen Black Bolt reflected in others. He’s sort of this blank slate to a degree because he doesn’t talk and because he has this kind of imperious distance as a king. So part of the challenge is getting in his head at all and starting to think about how with this being a solo title he’s always been defined by his place in the Inhuman Royal Family.

This book is a chance to think about his personality and ask what is Black Bolt like on his own? Just even beginning to ask that question has been both fun and a challenge.

As far as the past few years go, I’ve been walking a tight rope with this book. Marvel came to me as a science fiction/fantasy writer. This is my first comics project. I’m interested in bringing in some new readers; ones who don’t necessarily know who Black Bolt is or know a ton about the amazing past few years of the Inhumans comics. I’ve really loved reading those issues, but the mythology is thick. There’s a lot of material there with the history and the crossover events.

On the one hand, I wanted to take Black Bolt away from all of that and just strip him down to some essential questions about his character and this unique thing of his power being something that’s always in check. It’s kind of this curse and blessing, but mostly a curse. So there’s these thematic threads that I’d be weaving through a novel and now I’m doing the same thing with a comic. We’re dealing with this question of being silenced, not being able to talk, and silencing yourself.

>>91142946
>amazing past few years
>amazing

I'm iffy on the Saladin Ahmed BB comic. It could be good, I think, but BB is such a comic book character. There's so much weirdness there I don't think you can pull it just down to the big themes without tapping some of it.

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>>91142946
There’s all these kind of abstract things that this character brings out and I’m trying to make those accessible and interesting to both to long time readers and readers who are new to Marvel Comics. I want to take a look at this almost god like figure who’s been humbled and examine what that means.

I also wanted to say that those who have had questions about or outrage over Black Bolt’s machinations from the past few years should find this to be a satisfying series. Lingering questions about his unleashing the Terrigen Cloud and [his relationship with] his son definitely do get answered. So I think there’s going to be some satisfying examination of some of the decisions that Black Bolt has had to make, especially for people who have been reading Inhumans comics over the past few years. Ultimately though I want this to be a book that’s open to new readers.

What’s it like writing a character like Black Bolt, where you can’t really have him communicate with dialogue? Will you use other techniques for the character, like an internal monologue?

I don’t want to say too much about the exact technique because both myself as a writer and Christian Ward as an artist are going to employ some neat tricks to get in there. Giving readers a chance to discover those things on their own will be part of the fun of the book, but there will be a cerebral edge to the series. So we will occasionally get into Black Bolt’s head via captions the same way that Stan Lee did some 50 years ago.

>>91135869
I agree

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>>91143050
Part of what I’m trying to do, stylistically, is to do an updated version of that. The Inhumans are these epic sets of characters like the Asgardians. They’re one of the places where Lee and Kirby came closest to almost doing illustrated books. There’s this real kind of mythical sense to them. I haven’t looked at things like word count, but if you looked at an issue of the “Fantastic Four” where the Inhumans appeared versus say an issue of “Spider-Man,” I’d guess that the word counts would be higher.

So there’s this prose quality about the Inhumans as opposed to some of the other characters. I’m trying to take that into the 21st century with “Black Bolt.”

In “Black Bolt” you’re taking your character to a location that I don’t believe he’s spent much time in: prison. And what’s it like for a former monarch to suddenly find himself behind bars?

That’s the thematic core of the first arc of the book. Black Bolt is kind of a mysterious guy, but he’s also kind of arrogant. We’ll see him humbled — but it’s not a story about humiliation so much as becoming less sure of the pecking order of things as he interacts with his fellow prisoners.

The comic book takes place in a space jail with aliens and super villains, but I think the story of what happens when we lock people up, having had family locked up myself, is an important set of questions. So this is very much a cosmic sci-fi comic, but the chance to occasionally examine some of those questions is why we started here.

Will readers immediately know why Black Bolt is behind bars?

You’ll get an immediate answer, but there is a much deeper answer that will be revealed over the course of the arc.

What can you tell us about the prison that Black Bolt is incarcerated in? Is this an established Marvel facility? Or something you created for this story?

It’s something new, and that’s all I can say about it right now.

>>91134281
>Al Ewing

Muh dick!!

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>>91143221
Fair Enough. Let’s talk a little bit about some of the other inmates then. We know this is a cosmic story which suggests the jail would be populated with alien inmates. I was surprised and intrigued, then, to learn that Carl “Crusher” Creel, aka the Absorbing Man, would be one of the convicts incarcerated there.

Yes! He is going to be the only other Earthling in the prison, so he and Black Bolt immediately have a kind of weird connection. Crusher is very much the co-star of at least this first arc of the book. There’s almost a buddy picture feel to it. It’s been a lot of fun playing this king off of a lifelong con.

The Absorbing Man and Black Bolt are a very unlikely pairing. What made you want to bring Creel into the book?

The fun part of this book was that I originally had developed some of the pitch as a mini-series around Crusher. Just around the time I was getting ready to pitch it to Marvel, editor Wil Moss came to me and said that since I have a background in science fiction and fantasy he was thinking about me for “Black Bolt.” I said, “It’s funny, because I have this back pocket pitch that I was going to send you.”

Then when we bounced these things off of each other they just immediately meshed. That’s where this story came from. So Crusher predates Black Bolt as far as Marvel characters I’ve wanted to write about. He’s a hero to me, even if he’s a villain. [Laughs]

Who are some of the new supporting characters you’re introducing in “Black Bolt?”

One inmate is a teenage kid named Blinky. She is an alien psychic and an ex-pickpocket. She ended up in this story because the aspect of the incarceration question where we lock up kids kept coming up in my mind. She then became this really important character.

Another cellmate is a woman named Raava. She’s a Skrull, but not like the Skrulls we’ve seen. She’s a kind of anarchist pirate.

>>91133076
Husband? really? huband? just kill them already, they have been ruined too much by this point, they need to let them die please.

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>>91143267
What else can you tell us about the action and tone of “Black Bolt?”
I like good fight scenes, and Christian is amazing at drawing fight scenes. That may not have been one of my strengths in scripting, but that’s one of the wonders of collaboration. People can strengthen your weaknesses. So Christian’s fights have an almost French style manga edge to them. Characters are flying off the page.

“Black Bolt” is not a slugfest book, but there are absolutely some big action scenes. There’s a meditative tone to the book as well though. It is about incarceration in a social sense and in an existential almost Kafka sense. Some times the art will reflect that.

So Christian can do these amazing fights, but there will also be this dark, bleak tone from time to time that people won’t be used to seeing from him. He mostly does really psychedelic, colorful, cosmic stuff and he’s perfect for the book because of that. He’s quite good though too when things get grungy.

Besides the action and social commentary I always try and put jokes in my books. Readers have to laugh sometimes. So we’ll try and include a laugh at least once per issue. [Laughs] Plus, Crusher is a great source for that kind of stuff. He’s really good at deflating Black Bolt’s serious balloon with some Bronx-style snark.

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>>91143336
I understand you want your books to stand on their own, but “Black Bolt” launches one month after Al Ewing’s “The Royals,” where your title character heads into space on a mission with his family. Will there be some connective tissue between your two books for people who read both?

I believe that over the next year or so there will be some light connective tissue between all of the Inhumans books. It may look like there’s a paradox happening in the first issue of “Royals” and “Black Bolt.” We will provide an explanation, though, of how he can be in both books.

Finally, your work on “Black Bolt” is bound to make some readers curious about your work as a novelist. What would you like curious readers to know about your prose work?

The best thing they can do is check out first my novel “Throne of the Crescent Moon,” which is an epic fantasy with a sort of Middle Eastern flair. People like George R.R. Martin have said nice things about it. [Laughs] So if they enjoy the epic scope and weirdness of the Inhumans. I think they’ll enjoy the book.

I don't think the BB is Royal's is Maximus. The BB is the Black Bolt solo is BB so a body switch if off the table. I think BB in Royals is indeed a fake but only Max caught on, which is why the fake had Max sedated on top of already having his mind blocked in order to keep him quiet.

>>91132910
Mosaic for sure.

The entire theme of the character is that you've got this dude whose identity was a lie, that his pops molded his whole life into this product. And the backstory goes well with his powers, because they mean he adopts the identity of his hosts.

But then, instead of having a logical arc and storytelling proceed from these elements, like doing a character study where he figures out who he himself wants to be, he just ends up with the Inhumans and they literally hand him a new name and a new identity. Now he is Mosaic!

>>91143625
It didn't have to be a body switch. It might some sort of temporary visual illusion, so by the time "Maximus"-BB gets to prison his fake appearance wears off and he stars looking like normal again.

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>>91139531
>Lame costume

Sorry, what?

>>91133277
I WANT!!

>>91144309
Feel free to disagree on it being lame, but his original design as well as his subsequent designs based on it are way better.

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>>91133290
>NEXT MONTH:
>BLACKBOLT SCREAMING HIS ASS OFF!

>>91132714
when are they gonna get rid of that god awful design?

>>91133027
and we're done here

>>91144839
The Armor? If jail BB is the real BB than it is already gone.

>>91132733
this single page is more interesting than anything inhuman in the last 5 years

>>91132885
still not liking Kamala and Moon Girl being there

>>91134265
>He's been teasing that action sequence with the chitauri for months now, so I'm hype to see how it is handled

>>91143990
subduing BB, tricking all the Inhumans including the other Royals with an illusion seems a bit above Max's abilities. Especially with this Swain and his powers cancel each other out thing.

I wonder if Ewing will explain change in mist's mechanics.

>>91148040
Of course he will. With this and how he claimed to use the universal Inhumans and sky spears he is going to make a big thing about it. Ewing is going work out the Inhumans cosmic mythos

>>91134281
>Superior Black Bolt
My fucking heart

>>91132885
who is the homeless cyclops?

>>91133076
Can someone please crop that fourth panel? I can't do it rn and it is reaction image gold

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>>91149668

>>91148375
And everyone that comes after him will ignore it because Ewing is our eras Gruenwald except with even less respect.

>>91150100
I love rare Black Bolts

>>91133027
I really hope that Swain is the one that dies in Royals, hell cull them all back down to the inhuman royal family.

>>91150100
Thank you, based anon.

>>91150732
Death is too good for her. Do you want to be reminded of how much of a hero and a martyr she was whenever she is brought up again?

>>91135869
>Jesus Christ, I hate Swine so much. What a garbage character.

This is the second time we saw her talk, at this point you're shitting on her looks. I'd say we should give her more time. Like, one more issue at least.

>>91139022
>that's how Ultimates turned out and it's fucking boring.

That's, like, your opinion man.

>>91152406
Hasn't she been fucking around in the other Inhuman books prior to this?

>>91152656
I don't know, given everyone's reaction, I thought she appeared now for the first time.

>>91144309
>Lobster Johnson (Earth-616)

>>91152696
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/swain/4005-124556/

~17 issues apparently. She's a low level empath who can influence how people feel about things, so Medusa has been using her as the PR lady for when they need to lie to SHIELD or the UN (when the Stark Tower was bombed, they had her talk and lie about the details)

>>91152997
But not true at all, the only time Swain is shown handling PR is in All new Inhumans and only on the Riv. She has never been shown with shield, the un, or the Tony shit

>>91143267
>>91143368
I want Black Bolt to fuck thicc skrull

>>91154701
Only if it's anal.

Rest in peace Ahura and Luna. Not even Ewing can remember you.

>>91155996
Soule ruined Ahura by making him not Stryfe in the future, and then turning his rebellious teen phase into owning a useless Inhuman corporation

>>91145972
I agree.

>>91134224
>>91134238
Glad to see Noh-varr has his transforming gauntlets and not those shit ass laser pistols from YA.

>>91133024
this is the first time in years marvel using youth terms didn't make me cringe. It was obviously a joke and not an endorsement. Like saying "The greatest generation" doesn't mean you literally believe that. This Ewing guy is alright.

>>91156864
>Generation that had Captain America and fought the Nazi empire
Literally the greatest.

>>91157104
That's has nothing to do with the point. Also hitler did nothing wrong.

>>91133119
I roll to disbelieve.

>>91144309
SPACE GHOST!

>>91132714
Before I start reading this, will Blackbolt be brought to justice for his attempted genocide of Mutant-kind and the multiple deaths caused by that attempted genocide?

>>91157883
If the twist is what everyone thinks it is then yes. For what its worth Maximus blamed him for the mutant stuff.

>>91155996
Sahmed Alladin (or however the new guy on Black Bolt's ongoing is called) said in a CBR interview that Ahura is going to be part of the series.

>>91150104
At least Spencer respects Gruenwald. His Captain America run is a giant love letter to him.

>>91133119
>We will no longer have royalty!
>new comic literally titles "The Royals"
JUST!

>>91132986
couldn't have done that sooner?

>>91160755
He only gets three "reads" a day and each one is half as powerful as the last. Probably wanted to make sure he needed to use it incase Maximus had anything else up his sleeve.

>>91160485
Its a comic about the royal family leaving the nuhumans on earth while they go looking for a better story

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>>91132951
>>91132971
>Kamala trying to fight the unspoken

>>91132754

Call me when someone possesses a jetpack.

>>91157883
I hope he gets some punishment for making the bomb that rippes reality in half, leading to the Cancerverse invasion (but marvel seems to have forgotten about that)

>>91138612

I have to say this is not his best. He was so much better with that colorist on Teen Titans. Talk about a downgrade.

>>91162642
They forgot Cancer Marvel was main villain and that the cancerverse inhabits were killed by 616 death. Dipping back again would only make the retcons worse.

>>91162731
He wanted to do his own colors