INHUMANS HC
(W) Paul Jenkins (A) Jae Lee
The Inhumans are one of Marvel's most enduring
oddities. A race of genetic freaks living secluded in their island
kingdom of Attilan, their mutations are self-endowed;
as a coming of age ritual, each Inhuman exposes himself to the Terrigen
Mists, a strange substance that imparts unearthly powers - some
extraordinary, some monstrous. But now Attilan is under attack from
without and within. Can the Royal Family, led by the mute Black Bolt,
repel the foreign invaders who assail their outer defenses, as well as
the internal threat of Black Bolt's insane brother, Maximus the Mad?
Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee infuse one of Marvel's oldest families with a
modern sensibility - including international politics, class dissension
and the age-old struggle of growing up. Dark and grimly compelling, it
remains one of Marvel Knights' most beloved stories. Collecting INHUMANS
(1998) #1-12.