Publisher: Marvel Comics
Writer: Charles Soule
Artists: Jay Leisten, Steve McNiven
Colourist: Sunny Gho
Editor: Nick Lowe
Release date: OUT NOW!
Price: $4.99

Marvel is all about the Uncanny Inhumans now instead of X-Men, possibly due to the company’s lack of control over X-Men movies and TV. One of the mutants, Hank McCoy the Beast, visiting New Attilan sums up the situation: X-Men think the Inhumans are stealing their planet. “It’s just a matter of time before they try to take it back.”

Inhumans Queen Medusa is flexing her royal hair muscles and protects New York from a Chitari attack. In the past Inhumans were few, but because of the terrigen mist Nuhumans (new Inhumans) are popping up like Catholic rabbits. “It is difficult to hide when you are everywhere,” Medusa says. “Your world is our world. We will always fight to keep it safe.” Quite a change from the original Silver Age villain Medusa and her later apathetic royal self.

Meanwhile Black Bolt is trying to rescue his son, and runs afoul of Kang the Conqueror. After a brief fight with a dinosaur, World War I soldiers and the mother of Soviet atom bombs, Black Bolt, Triton and Reader barely escape alive, and with no clue what to do next. Black Bolt’s mood isn’t helped when he finds Medusa and Johnny Storm the Human Torch in flagrante delicto.

Without reading the back story the Uncanny Inhumans #1 is a little confusing. Overall the story feels a bit like a tick box exercise, but it moves the series along and stays fun and interesting. There’s plenty of humour, and in one panel Medusa agrees to go on the Daily Show but not CNN.

But in the end, if Uncanny Inhumans #1 is supposed to make you forget about your love for mutants, that does not quite happen here. But it may do in future issues…….

Reviewer: Joe Lovece
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker