Black Bolt was the only Inhuman worth a shit, Marvel just can't find a clever enough way to tell a monthly series about just him since he can't talk. Inner monologues be damned!
I disagree. The Inhumans in general were beyond epic when they were part of the Marvel cosmic pantheon. Their highpoint (at least IMO) was during the War of Kings/Thanos Imperative saga where they were tangling with the Kree, Skrull, and Shi'ar. Now that was a fun read.
These Inhumans are just second-rate mutants, with like 1,000,000 new characters that popped out of nowhere (with no backstory and no purpose or rhyme or reason whatsoever).
The Mutants at least fought for something and stood for something from the get-go. These Inhumans are tantamount to genocidal villains being treated like heroes. In fact they're not actually heroes... they literally just exist as a basis for a future TV show.
Oh I agree they were great in War of Kings from what I saw, but in general Black Bolt is the only one who mattered. A Medusa series wouldn't sell. Crystal works best as a supporting character. And from what I've seen a decent Karnak solo is possible, but the one we got never shipped on time. Triton could be cool enough on his own, but I have a soft spot for characters like Namor and Aquaman. I dig the Uncanny Inhumans title but more for the fact Johnny Storm and Beast are also there.
All these new Inhumans are a bit like everything the X-Men have introduced the last decade or so, I don't see how 5 dozen new mutants across 6 titles is any worse than the dozen or so we got since Inhumans have been getting a push. Yeah, Inhumans are everywhere now because of this cloud, but none of them have the importance of Bolt. Tron style suits don't make them any more enjoyable, and Black Bolt's new suit is way too movie inspired and I hate the glyph now rather than the tuning fork.
Get Black Bolt in a series as a silent badass and mixing it up with what's left of the F4, maybe the Guardians of the Galaxy, and give us something we haven't seen or seen executed horribly already and it would sell. Then again I've always wanted a Human Torch solo too...
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