The Inhumans

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On a strange whim, I checked it out from the pubic ibrary though with tremendous trepidation, because it smacked of MOMENTOUSLY IMPORTANT STORYTELLING and had an Alex Ross-scribed intro.
But dammit if this Paul Jenkins isn't an incompetent writer, and that Jae Lee actually isn't (anymore?) a Jim Lee clone! In fact Jae's inks often bordered on that trendy-arty-cool blocky shadows style inspired from Sienkiewicz/McKean.
And Black Bolt = cool name + cool costume design (minus the silly wings though) + cool powahs!

Not exactly pants-shaking, but not the über-dud I anticipated.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Thursday, 27 May 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not an uber dud? I must rush out and buy this one.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It's excellent! Lockjaw is on point! And Jae Lee never was a Jim Lee clone! The disinformation schmear campaign MUST STOP NOW!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Duly noted! Jae is like the only artist who ever paid attention to drawing men's lips.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jae Lee has always rocked from what I remember.

The only reason I didn't buy this mini when it came out is because The Inhumans bore all shades of living shit out of me. The creative team was pure butter.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a character named NEIFI i.e. HOW COULD I NOT LIKE THIZ?

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked the Inhumans - Black Bolt is an old favourite, who I think has been badly underused in the Marvel Universe - he's one of their most powerful characters, and hardly ever gets into the major league stuff.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Allow me to show my ignorance of the medium-old-school -- the Inhumans were around for a while?

And also let me revise my original evaluation: the writing is typically quite good (the narration of Lockjaw's thoughts is a high point of prose composition in Literature), and the art often marvelous.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Inhumans been kickin' it since FF #40ish (when Lee / Kirby hottness was undeniable) - Medusa was one of the original cats in the Frightful Four!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a passage of nice nice prose: "Once, not so long ago, you [Black Bolt] stood at the edge of infinity. And there, you faced the galaxy-collector known simply as Vortex. An impossible speck of nothing, standing against a being of cosmic proportions, you looked into Vortex's eyes, as if preparing to use your voice... And the creature blinked."

Nice!

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That reads like Jamie Delano in the old days, when he overwrote every issue of Hellblazer. Wanting soooo bad to be Alan Moore.

― David Nolan (David N.), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Given Moore's old skool penchant for ornate verbosity (see Swamp Thing, especially near the end of his run), I think JD might've just been amicably aping the guy.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

He made a career early on out of such "aping"....he took over Captain Britain and wrote it in Moore's style, with Moore's characters. Then did the same on Hellblazer. I mean this in a good way, sort of. I always enjoyed his work a lot, especially 2020 Visions...

― David Nolan (David N.), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He was mates with Alan Moore, it wasn't just someone copying him, and Alan didn't seem to mind - but yes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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