All-New Inhumans #1

[flint_marko]

This is by James Asmus and Nico Leon.

An Inhuman named Swain is giving the United Nations security council a tour of the Royal Inhumans Vessel when they're attacked.







Crystal saving the day wins the council over.

Later...

Comments

[lucean]

This is a much more interesting take on the Inhumans/Mutants situation that I expected. Instead of having the innocent Inhumans just being attacked by mutants, it instead has the Inhuman leadership actually creating a larger sense of mutant danger as well as fanning the anti-mutant movement by staging such an attack.

Kudos for Marvel for making the situation more intricate, now just to hope they keep doing that. It also raises even more questions about what really did happen with Scott.

[q99]

Isn't this really bad for the mutants, though? They're in a pretty poor spot perception-wise from all this...

[lucean]

It is and that was my point. The initial situation, how it was presented, was that mutants are going extinct because of the Mists and are lashing out against the Inhumans. However, while that is true, here we learn that the Inhumans are actually provoking those anti-mutant perspective in order strengthen their own position.

So instead of being innocent victims here, they are active participants whose actions are furthermore making things difficult for mutants despite their claims how they just want to make it easier for them to help the mutants.

[q99]

Ok, so next question: How are they selling Frenzy on this in that case?

[lucean]

The reason was given in the scans. She thinks they're saving lives. Besides, I'm not speculating anything as that is what they did in this very story.

[burkeonthesly]

It looks like the deal they made is that Frenzy plays the role of heel so the Inhumans look like they need help, and behind the scenes the Inhumans will help with the find-a-way-to-stop-killing-mutants-with-the-terrigen-cloud science.

[shadowpsykie]

i just HATE that in order for ONE minority group to get ahead/survive it requires setting up another minority group as the fall guy.


i am so fucking tired of the mutants (whom i identify with as a double minority) STILL being used as the perpetual whiping boy by the MU. i mean REALLY. WHY set a group up as a minority only to DESTROY every single type of advancement they make...

[beyondthefringe]

I'm glad that they're keeping this more nuanced take on Frenzy. I think she's the only member of the Alliance of Evil who's still alive, and I love that she evolved past "angry evil mutant" into a more interesting character.

I may need to rethink my decision not to get this title. I've just been so wary of the many Inhuman titles to spring up.

[nyadnar17]

Alright you got me. This is interesting.

[icon_uk]

I have to ask, why are the Inhumans still on Earth?

They don't seem to want to be on Earth, they have committed war crimes (the Terrigen bomb, which has led to M-Pox and the sterilisation of the mutant population), many of them don't LIKE humans, and they are an interstellar spaceflight capable society...

What's keeping them on Earth?

[cyberghostface]

Perlmutter.

[stolisomancer]

They're trying to clean up their own mess, as seen in this issue, and to find and help all humans who've been mutated by the Terrigen cloud.

[tigerkaya]

I miss the days when they were in charge of The Kree.

[chalicother]

That MCU synergy! THE GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN TO MARVEL COMICS!! CAUSE THEY BE COOL!

Oh you mean story wise.........
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I got nothing
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Oh wait just remembered, they want to kidnap all the new inhumans and force them to become apart of the Inhuman society, ignoring their lives, responsibilities, and will.

[long_silence]

So let me see if I've got this straight.

The king of the Inhumans unleashed a biochemical WMD on the entire planet that forces a percentage of the population exposed to undergo terrigenesis, not everyone survives the process and makes it out of the cocoon alive. But that's not all
As an unintended side effect, mutants exposed to the Terrigen cloud are now getting sick, the M-Pox. This is killing some mutants and sterilizing the rest.

And now the Inhumans are blackmailing a known mutant terrorist into furthering their political cause, making them seem like victims in this who simply want to help anyone affected.

They are holding the development of a cure to the M-Pox over Frenzy's head, she is making Inhumans look better (and by extension mutants worse) so that they will help clean up their own mess.

Why the hell isn't Black Bolt in prison for war crimes?

He's their former King....

[7dialsmystery]

...I imagine he has diplomatic immunity.

[chalicother]

Cause your suppose to like the Inhumans. Because their so EdGy!!!

[akodo_rokku]

They seem to have done away with "terrigenesis kills people sometimes". It's just x-gene 2.0 now.

As for Black Bolt, he's deposed, "missing" and the fact that the Terrigen Cloud was on *purpose* and not an accident from Thanos' attack on Attlian isn't publicly known.

And also because come on, what prison are you even going to put that guy in?

[burkeonthesly]

Because he offered to speak in his own defense.

[silverhammerman]

At this point I kind of have to ask: Are we actually supposed to be rooting for the Inhuman royal family and existing power structure?

Like, back when Marvel started this push everyone pointed out that the Inhumans used to have a slave class and were going around more or less claiming sovereignty over people who had no real desire to be part of Inhuman society. But Marvel's done nothing to downplay that stuff at all.

It's just starting to feel like I'm supposed to just want the NuHumans to tear down Inhuman society because it's fundamentally shit.

[wizardru]

I'm still confused about the 'M-Pox' and how it's supposed to be wiping out mutants. I mean, mutants are a GENETIC MUTATION, by definition. The terrigen mists may be sterilizing existing mutants...but new mutants are going to keep being born to normal humans. That's the genetic imperative of mutation. If it's sterilizing baseline humans to prevent them from giving birth to more mutants, then I wish they'd say that and actually make it MAKE SENSE.

I realize this is comics, but if you're going to use that as a conceit, then make it at least able to stand up to a non-scientist who's had at least one class in high school on the topic, guys.

[burkeonthesly]

The terrigen mists generate selection pressure against mutants. Sure, first-generation mutants will keep being born to baseline humans in the same small proportion that they always have been. However, as they die or are sterilized, they won't be able to pass on their X-genes or grow as a distinct population.