The Inhumans are a race where upon coming of age the citizens undergo a mandatory mutation. The outcome of the mutation determines their place in the Inhuman society. An entity may be born to serve the royal guard or perhaps the change is a bit more subtle, endowing the Inhuman with the ability to heal or provide psychic negative energy fields. The Inhumans are ruled by King Black Bolt. His power is so great that he could end a universe with the utterance of a single word. He is careful to maintain his silence, communicating only through his wife Medusa and other trusted advisors.

In this comic run, the humans are attempting to assault the Inhuman capital city of Attilan and it appears that they may be successful. The genesis of this conflict stems from within and it seems that the end is at hand. How will Black Bolt respond? Is this the end of Inhumanity?

This is a very enjoyable read with top-notch artwork. Highly recommended. ( )

I have encountered Black Bolt across several stories due to his role in the Illuminati, but had never read the Inhumans before. With the announcement of a film, and the recent Inhumanity event, I decided to move this to the top of my reading pile. It started off very strong, lost a lot of steam in the middle, and ended with a solid finish.

Though this is a good introduction to the Inhumans, it is not strictly an origin story. When the story opens, Black Bolt and Medusa are King and Queen and have been for some time. New readers are given entry to the world by a group of teens who are about to undergo Terrigenesis, whereby they transform into super-powered beings. We also meet Black Bolt's insane brother, who is currently plotting his escape and the conquering of Attilan. He orchestrates humans into attacking Attilan and Black Bolt categorically refuses to respond with aggression; his inner circle begins to question his lack of action.

Black Bolt is unable to speak, as his merest whisper can level a mountain, so aside from some dialog between secondary characters, the story unfolds mostly via exposition in dialog boxes. Very often, the exposition asks a question like "Imagine you were given one chance to speak. What would you say?" At first this was fine, but it quickly grew tiresome. The middle of the book became so bogged down by telling and not showing that I actually set the book aside for a couple weeks before going back to it. Once I got to the point where Black Bolt's plan unfolds, the book picked up speed again and finished with a satisfying conclusion.

Overall, this was a solid story with some intriguing themes. Attilan congratulates itself for its diversity, but the people are prejudiced against one another regardless. Some gifts are more highly desired than others, such as flight, and a class system is based upon this. It's a good introduction to the characters, I just wish it hadn't relied so heavily on exposition. Recommended. ( )

Some of the storylines are intriguing, interesting and curious, but the comics have little to no cohesion, some seem pointless and unconnected, the story drifts from Attilan to the humans to Atlantis, goes back and forth between the past and the present and focuses on too many characters only to leave their stories half told. Nonetheless, the end is nice and the core of its main storyline is still quite good, in spite of all its fickleness. ( )

Somehow, while it's quite a good story about the hard choices the people who wield power have to deal with, it left me largely unmoved. I didn't really connect with the characters until the end, I was curious but somehow underwhelmed.

Not a bad story about a war between humanity and the inhumans, with help from Maximus for the human cause, well, for his own cause. ( )