2.159 (524) Realm of Kings - Inhumans #1 ... Marvel ...

[We are approx. 1 month behind now in our reviews and for our regular subscribers, we do apologize]

Anyhow, a looooooooong time ago ... or rather in 2008/ 2009, back when Marvel was exploring its vast catalogue of characters, it had decided to split events into Marvel U and then more contained sub events in the Mutant verse and finally the cosmic folks and this one is an epilogue of sorts to the awesome War of Kings

For those unfamiliar, think Guardians of the Galaxy and you are fine

Inhumans are basically an offshoot of humanity on earth where eons ago a space faring race called Kree came to experiment upon and then thinking that it was a failure, left them behind. So what happens is that they have since then lived by themselves hidden from the general public awareness of Earth. What made them different is that every child is exposed to something called the Terrigen Mists that mutates them and bring out different abilities including what we would term deformities or monstrosities but not to the Inhumans

Next bit of background info is that in the War of King, basically Inhumans kicked Kree asses and then ruled them. Unfortunately another space faring race called Shiar also tried to launch an attack on them and they also kicked said Shiar's asses so now they have 2 Empires. The only problem is that they lost their king, Black Bolt to the cause

And so this issue opens ... what should be a normal epilogue is not ... in fact, the writers have made this into an integral ongoing saga of the previous limited series as we see the Inhumans adapting to the roles of rulers of 2 Empires now and playing politics while simultaneously denizens from the Negative Zone try to expand its own Empires

But that is not the extent of the threat

We are given hints that Medusa, the queen is still harbouring hopes of finding hubby alive and thus divide their already stretched resources in that direction ... and like all newly come into power, she is protective of future heir, her young son ... and worrying and seeing shadows where there may not be while all the time, at her side is the most treacherous of Inhumans, Maximus who once again appears to be "normal" and not the "mad" ... sigh ... when will super heroes ever learn, eh?

Ratings: 6/10