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What is the deal with Marvel’s Inhumans?

Link. By the excellent host of Issue At Hand.

The Inhumans may not have the greatest buzz surrounding it. In fact, it may have the exact opposite of buzz. And that might leave you wondering.

Why did Marvel think that these weird characters were worth making TV show about? (Or, once, a whole movie?) And is there a way to find out who the heck these obscure Marvel comics characters are, without watching what looks to be a lackluster, eight-week television event?

Yes, there is.
 
We all knew it was in response on not having the rights to the X-MEN and wanting to get that audience.

X-MEN are far superior and the inhumans are a mistake. I strongly, strongly reject these monsters and how they tried to kill my beloved mutants.
 
Black Bolt its a great character, as the inhumans overall are. Comicbook wise, at least. The show looked like crap not because of the inhumans, but crap overall ,
 
they hired a show runner who's famous for making super cheap stuff

guess what

it looks super cheap.
 
I love the Inhumans, but by the Inhumans I mean the original Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Inhumans from their Fantastic Four run. They're the perfect kind of Kirby-weird that I'm a huge fan of that also shows up in his New Gods stuff & lots of other Kirby projects. The whole point of them is that they're weirdos.

I've not been much of a fan of what they've done with the Inhumans since, especially recently. I didn't see the TV show pilot but it didn't look good at all, it looked so bland. For the Inhumans to work, I feel like they need a really stylized, high budget treatment, akin to the Guardians of the Galaxy. But Marvel is basically just turning them into mutants, which makes them lose a lot of their charm and identity. The original Inhumans don't really have anything in common with the X-Men aside from "people who get powers."
 
I honestly feel that The Inhumans are too hard to get right unless you have a really great writer on board. Guardians have that space comedy adventure thing going on for it, but Inhumans can't be that. Inhumans has to take itself pretty seriously. Maybe in theory it doesn't have too, but the most appealing aspect of the Inhumans to me is being a sci-fi drama with superheroes. Making that appeal to the ABC audience isn't an easy feat.

EDIT: Whoops. Thought it was on Freeform, not ABC. My bad.
 
I honestly feel that The Inhumans are too hard to get right unless you have a really great writer on board. Guardians have that space comedy adventure thing going on for it, but Inhumans can't be that. Inhumans has to take itself pretty seriously. Maybe in theory it doesn't have too, but the most appealing aspect of the Inhumans to me is being a sci-fi drama with superheroes. Making that appeal to the Freeform audience isn't an easy feat.

Its airing on ABC, not Freeform...
 
The Inhumans themselves make a great source material for a compelling sci fi superhero epic - with the right budget.
Not what this series is. But Marvel had to hotshot it. Since they probably won't use a license they trashed on TV for a movie that recasts the characters and retcons everything they effectively killed their artificial replacement for the X-Men. Good job.
 
Marvel wanted mutants but didn't have the rights to X-Men, so they shoehorned the Inhumans into their spot.

They character assassinated the X-Men for nearly a decade in prep for a movie that will never happen and a tv show that is legendarily terrible. Poetic.
 
I honestly feel that The Inhumans are too hard to get right unless you have a really great writer on board. Guardians have that space comedy adventure thing going on for it, but Inhumans can't be that. Inhumans has to take itself pretty seriously. Maybe in theory it doesn't have too, but the most appealing aspect of the Inhumans to me is being a sci-fi drama with superheroes. Making that appeal to the ABC audience isn't an easy feat.

EDIT: Whoops. Thought it was on Freeform, not ABC. My bad.

Agents of SHIELD handles Inhumans extremely well and got me into the universe.

Shame they just couldn't do a SHIELD/Inhumans crossover done by the Agents of Shield team.

I mean it makes story sense since the next season is in space.
 
Yeah, the Inhumans are great, too bad they've been so terribly mishandled these last few years. Black Bolt should be the ultimate MCU badass. Oh well.

The Jenkins / Lee series is good but I also really like the one drawn by Ladronn. And I remember some cool one-shots in the 90s.
 
Why did Marvel think that these weird characters were worth making TV show about?

The Inhumans miniseries being dead on arrival has nothing to do with the characters and everything to do with the "talent" behind the adaptation.
 
Marvel wanted mutants but didn't have the rights to X-Men, so they shoehorned the Inhumans into their spot.

They character assassinated the X-Men for nearly a decade in prep for a movie that will never happen and a tv show that is legendarily terrible. Poetic.

It feels like to me that they finally gave up on this in the comics, but the TV/Film side isn't stopping.

They're never going to replace the X-Men and they need to stop trying.
 
The Inhumans are potentially cool, but they ain't X-Men replacements and even Spider Man would like shit with these production values.
 
It sucks that they had to carry the baggage of being the X-men replacement. Since the movie announcement I've actually grown to like them
 
Marvel wanted mutants but didn't have the rights to X-Men, so they shoehorned the Inhumans into their spot.

They character assassinated the X-Men for nearly a decade in prep for a movie that will never happen and a tv show that is legendarily terrible. Poetic.

Marvel: *spends years tearing down the X-Men to make way for the Inhumans movie*
Marvel: *realizes no one cares about the Inhumans, like, at all, and launches the ResurrXion event a few months before Inhumans is set to premiere*
Marvel: *wonders why no one is buying their comics*
 
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