Medusa is a Fine, Regal Ruler

[shakalooloo]

From 'Realm of Kings: Inhumans' #5:







Art by Pablo Raimondi, Victor Olazaba and Adriano Lucas

Comments

[lordultimus]

There's that Frightful Four member!

[scorntx]

Hard to believe this is the same woman who got violently defensive when the X-Men politely asked her if the Inhumans could maybe reign in their peanut-butter death cloud before it horribly killed any more Mutants.

[scorntx]

Ah, Medusa's "colossal *****" period.
Can't even blame all of it on Black Bolt getting blown up, because she was acting like that before then, too.

(Funny, seeing this bit in light of Royals doing that subplot with Gorgon being in love with Medusa.
... that was a weird choice.)

[shakalooloo]

Uh, he liked being choked by her? Maybe? That "Nggh" is not a moan of pain... This is where the attraction began! Yes, that's it, CLEARLY! ;P

[mastermahan]

GORGON: Harder Mommy.

MEDUSA: What?

GORGON: What?

[sinisterlink]

I miss Ronan and Crystal as a couple. :(

[shakalooloo]

Hickman breaking them up, bringing back Black Bolt and returning the royal family to Earth was all incredibly disappointing. Becoming rulers of a space empire was the most interesting thing the Inhumans have done.

[scorntx]

And all for his big dramatic Avengers storyline where Black Bolt... provided nothing of any import, gets beaten up by Thanos, and then killed by the Children of Tomorrow at the start of Secret Wars.
What a great character arc.

(Thanks for nothing, Future Franklin.)

[deh_tommy]

Why did they break up anyway? I forget.

[stubbleupdate]

Who would dare?
A King would dare

[shakalooloo]

Has Black Bolt ever done anything worthwhile? From that whole mess with the Unspoken to the present day, he just causes more trouble than he solves.

[scorntx]

Well, he did blow Vulcan up.

Okay, it tore a massive fissure in space and time that nearly allowed the Many-Angled Ones to take over the universe, the very thing Star-Lord tried telling him would happen, and didn't even take, but that last one's more on Hickman (and those stupid aliens) than Black Bolt.


Maybe unleashing the death-cloud that gave Kamala Khan her powers?
... much as we all love Kamala, the massive negatives of that one do outweigh the positives.

Um... he saved an orphan once?

[agharta75]

I suppose in ten years or so it will be "safe" to bring them back.

[icon_uk]

Probably, but I'd say it was unlikely they'll ever get as big a push again.

Apart from the X-Men being back in the fold, the Inhumans would still be a very bizarre concept to get a lot of focus; a secret society with a fractious monarchy made up of a near incestuous Royal Family who are prone to more in fighting than even most REAL Royal families, and a genetically engineered underclass.

[shakalooloo]

They work fine as guest stars, as the mysterious society that the heroes have to deal with, the foreign nation with whom deals must be brokered, but as Main Characters, I just can't.

[lordultimus]

That sounds awesome, great story potential. Game of Thrones with super powers.

[icon_uk]

And as an isolated series, or occasional guest stars to contrast with the other heroes I would say you are absolutely correct.

As a major push for "These are the next big characters who are the relatable heroes to be integrated into the mainstream of the MU on a par with the Avengers or X-Men", I'd say not so much.

[gnarll]

I'd say there is real hints that the underclass is genetically altered from humans they seize in slave raids.