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Written by Brian Michael Bendis @brianmichaelbendis
Art by David Marquez
Colors by Justin Ponsor
Prediction for my future: SO MUCH UGLY-CRYING
So here’s the gist of things: Ulysses is an Inhuman with precognitive abilities. There are super-teams who think his foresight is a useful tool in keeping the world safe, and others who have concerns about the “probability ratio” of his visions. So, although this event is called “Civil War II,” the only thing it has in common with Marvel’s first Civil War event is that a lot of super-people disagree about how to do their super-personing and some of them get hurt in the process.
In a community as large as Marvel’s universe, it makes total sense that this sort of fundamental disagreement would come up every so often. Different kinds of powers, training, and personalities are going to give individuals different perspectives on how to best protect themselves, each other, and the world. I don’t usually get into big events like this, but the stakes here feel very real and I have a lot of feelings about it. Please understand that I must now use all caps because lower case letters cannot fully express my emotions.
SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE ARE HERE!
AW YEAH PENTAGRAM-ED HELLSTROM TORSO!
OMG HE IS HITTING ON WANDA SOMEONE WRITE A ONE-SHOT OF THAT!
DAVID & JUSTIN YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOOD AT FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!
WELP GUESS I SHIP JEAN GREY AND ULYSSES NOW BYE!
OMG I AM TEAM STARK WHAT EVEN!
WAIT…
WAIT WHAT IS HAPPENING
I DID NOT ASK FOR THESE FEELINGS
PLEASE STOP
THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN
I CANNOT HANDLE IT WHEN THEY MAKE THE SAD FACES PLEASE NO
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THOSE TWO I CANNOT TOO SAD TOO SAD
NO YOU DID NOT
Tia Vasiliou is a Digital Editor at comiXology. You can listen to her flail about comics and feelings on the I Read Comic Books Podcast at ircb.us or on iTunes.
Inhuman Special #1
There’s not much to dislike about Inhuman Special. It’s got Spider-Man, the Inhumans, the NuHumans, a classic hero-turned-villain, and a pretty heavy hitting storyline. Another one of Marvel’s famous three-part specials, this story continues from Amazing Spider-Man and continues in All-New Captain America, and focuses on a huge conflict in New Attilan, which sits just outside of New York City.
For those that haven’t been keeping up, a while back, Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans, in order to bring his people into a new age, set off a Terrigen mist bomb that gave powers to a ton of people (including Ms. Marvel, the blind guy from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Toro) who didn’t know they had Inhuman ancestors (sound familiar?). Everyone besides him and his crazy brother thought it was a bad idea because it disfigured a bunch of people who didn’t ask for it and created a ton of conflict, but it turns out it also messed up a whole race of people.
Enter Red Raven, a golden age hero who used to team up with Captain America and the rest of the Invaders. He retired, lived, loved, and raised a family with some distant relatives of the Inhumans, but all of that changed when the Terrigen Bomb hit. That society, because of its unique genetic variation, got totally destroyed by the mists, and Red Raven is out for revenge/justice.
The best stories, I think, are ones where the villains’ interests are just as valid as the heroes’. Red Raven has a legitimate right to be upset by what happened, and the list of problems that Black Bolt has caused keeps getting longer. This flub, though, isn’t something that’s easily forgotten or resolved. Tensions continue to built and Black Bolt and the Inhumans are soon going to have to face the consequences of the mistakes they’ve made. With the Inhumans taking such a big role in the Marvel Cinematic I have a feeling that we’ll be feeling the effects of this storyline’s inevitable climax for a long time to come.
[Inhuman Special #1 on comiXology]
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↳ We are a mighty people. Powerful. We chose to respect that power and keep to ourselves. To avoid war. But war keeps finding us nonetheless. Perhaps we need to change our methods to protect our family. … And so, my brothers and sisters, we stand at the precipice of a new era! A day where we take the fight to those who would do us harm! As of today, we no longer play the victims! We take them!
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