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Is anyone going to pickup this Marvel Inhumans event?

Yep. Well, I am going to get the on-going. I am not getting anything else to do with it, other than the first issue one shot

Nope. I'm having Marvel Event burnout. I'm sick of the Avengers having 20 different titles to follow, titles relaunching every couple of months, and one crossover crossing into another.

I'm with Nate. I left Marvel's continual herpes flare up/comic events many moons again. When this was being marketed within the early days of Infinity, I said that's just lame.

That, and I can't stand the Inhumans. For me, I truly cannot understand them from actual sociology aspect; how do they function? What do they eat? Is there a hierarchy of class? Social strife? All they have ever been is people standing in a throne room or just people fighting.

All surface coolness, but no depth of culture. Blah.

So yeah, I'm passing this up.

What the ... ? WHAT? I guess you never read the Paul Jenkins / Jae Lee series because a lot of that is in there. That series exploded and expanded the very nature of the Inhumans and the society they live in and under.

It was even further expanded upon in the short lived INHUMANS seires a few years back.

I think your mind is still stuck on the 70's Inhumans, because that is not how they are represented now. Shame on you, Jimmy. Bringing that kinda hate to the Inhumans.
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What the Inhumans are now is what the X-Men used to be when they were a comic worth reading (apologies to those that currently read X-Men titles)  :D


Seriously, go read that 12 issue Jenkins/Lee run. Culture over'floweth  ;D

Again, yes, I am looking forward to the Inhumans series

Aw, Perry, I just couldn't. I know that series was always very well received, but the Inhumans always had a coolness factor about them I just couldn't get my mind around.

I think it's akin to the whole generation of people who loved Boba Fett for his 13 minutes of screen time in Return of the Jedi-and I had no idea why, especially when he died originally screaming like a little girl. That's how I see Inhumans. ;)

And you obviously don't want to try and change your opinion of them. Funny, I kind of remember you and I having the same discussion on Superman. But at least I keep trying to find books that will make me like him
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I plan on picking it up.

After some soul searching (previewing what comics are on the horizon) I just canceled my order of this and plan on skipping the INHUMANS title. I am saddened by this, but as I will be adding more Batman and Spidey back on my pull, plus the Surfer getting his own title again, I am still trying to say about 5 or 6 titles a month so this had to go.

Of course, once Surfer starts that means I will be buying two titles by Slott a month. My track record with him ... oh boy ... am a scareded ...

(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-scared002.gif)

You always seem to be distraught over cancelling this or that. Why do you keep doing it if you want to read these books?

Because I have a bad habit that I am trying to control - too much comic buying  :D I am trying, and have been for about 6 years, to go to an all Hardcover or Trade readership. All comics read better in that form, I like the book shelf display factor instead of "in a box" somewhere that you can't display and I don't keep any monthly comics anyway (I sell them all on Ebay), so going to that format makes sense for me.

However, If I can't get my habit of buying monthly under control, I will never make the switch.

I have done well over the past few years (gone from preordering and LCS buying of about 40 titles a month, down to about 20 preorder titles and now currently down to about 5 titles total) but my goal is to eliminate monthlies totally.

The logic side of me loves canceling titles, as I know it will help me reach the "no monthly" goal, but the fan in me hates canceling titles because I have to wait to read them. Plus, what normally happens is I cancel one, but order a different title and I am right back at square 1 again.

I just get mad at myself for not being able to make the switch and I voice it here as some sort of personal therapy.  ;D

(Still in shock I have maintain my 5 titles for so long, but I am sooo cheating having a friend that lets me read his stack)  :-\

And after all that caterwauling to get me to go after it; !!!!!!

Just kiddin' ya Perry. ;)

I won't pick it up on the principle that it's a Marvel event. HA!  :D

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No all that was to get you to read the INHUMANS 12 parter by Jenkins. A book I stand strongly behind as a book that highlights what you found lacking in them originally.

(Hopefully your local library will have a copy *dropping hint*)
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Besides, having read more into where Fraction is .. seemingly ... taking this incarnation, not sure I want to go down the hole after all.

What ruined the X-Men for me was the overabundance of characters, making them not the fighting minority they once were, as well as the many books that had to come out of that fact. I fear that may be the route they are taking the Inhumans. Not just making more of them, but diluting the very thing that makes them great. Well, great for me anyway.
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Not interested in this even in the slightest.

I am BOTH burnt out by all events by the Big Two, and I have no interest in the Inhumans....Never have, never will....

The feudal system they got going on there bores me to tears, and Terrigen Mists ranks up there as the lamest source of power EVER.

Jeff should do the Inhumans next for the Love em or Hate em thread......I hate em.

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Well not quite the system they employ, but okay, hate all ya want.  :D

And the Mist is NOT the source of their power. It activates the gene. They are just like latent mutants. So if you think that is lame ... okay, following your thought process ... Mutants activate the gene when they hit puberty. Yes, by growing pubic hair they become "special". That is not a lame source of power?
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EDIT - HHAHA, just added the title back on. My defense of them had me missing them.  ;D

And if you are going to try and pull the "lame" card on the Inhumans, you should channel Karnak and strike at the true weak (lame) point, their true names. I mean Black Bolts name is Blackagar Boltagon.
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Come on ... now that is as lame as Liam Neesons so called "acting"
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EDIT 2 -  ;D

Was looking for a new Inhumans wallpaper and ... well ... Also lame ... some of the Inhuman fans.

(http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g476/ptsteelers/Black-Bolt_zps798026aa.jpg)

HAHAHA. WHAT THE ??
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I guess I meant caste system......the whole hierarchy thing bothers me for no good reason except it just does.  :D

As for puberty being a lame source of power for mutants, there's a difference.  The x-factor is up to a point wholly random and latent for the select few who unknowingly possess the special gene.  It's not simply basking in some mists, that mutate your genes naturally, and get some arbitrary powers.  ;D ;D

And Blackagar Boltagon?  I think it's definitely too late to plead their case as a group I can take seriously and check out.  ;D

What? That is not how that works. The X gene and the Inhuman gene are essentially the same thing, just triggered by a different apparatus  :)

You, like Jimmy, just want to hate them. Go on then, be a Republican  ;D

Hey!  I like the Inhumans!   ;D

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I meant the ones that cause all the problems. The far, faaaar right. Not you or your kind.  :)

Not exactly. The Inhumans power come from the Skrulls messing with their people's genetics way back when. Mutants are from a natural step in evolution.

My disdain for the Inhumans is very similar to my disdain for Namor.....their high-falutin, hoity-toity demeanor....

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Oh, you just despise royalty  ;D

 

Pssstttt ... Jimmy ... Skip to about 6:44 minute mark for a special message ...
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(Warning INHUMANITY spoilers in video from 2:00 to 4:00 mark)

Click HERE !!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXpcfyOxmg&feature=em-uploademail)

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EDIT - Plus at the very end, he shows he is a huge fan of your ARROW (and even spoils the last episode if you haven't seen it)
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Actually, I do know that that book is amazing. It's Paul Jenkins :D

That said, I still don't care about the Inhumans. HA!

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And now you understand why you will never change my mind about Super-pooper  :)

..touché good sir, touché....*bows*

But then again, I have at least read some good SuperMan stories here and there  :D

Well, kinda want it more now ... Charles Soule is the replacement for Fraction. Been hearing some really good things about this writer and while Fraction can hit for me (FF, IRON FIST, HAWKEYE among some great ones ... hell, his IRON MAN run was about as good as you can get ... not to mention his Thor one-shots that were spectacular), he can also miss, and miss badly (FEAR ITSELF, DEFENDERS, F4), so there was a little worry going into this title.

Not to say that worry isn't there still, but now I have no expectations or preconceived notions!!  :)

Bleeding Cool has the story HERE (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/16/charles-soule-to-replace-matt-fraction-on-inhuman/)

Charles Soule has one of the new generation Green Lantern books, and also Superman/Wonder Woman title. He's writing comics, and I don't think it's awful. But I've read all of 4 comics total by him as of now.

His star is on the rise to say the least. I give it another month or two or three and I think we will see the rare Marvel exclusive contract for him.
(I say rare because both Marvel and DC don't go out of their way to sign those "exclusive" contrasts anymore like they were prone to in years past)

I wonder  if that's in part or related to our conversation on writer's not being able to make a big enough splash; why sign a guy who may not end up being a big thing?

I read Inhumanity #1 and I think I'm hooked.  Might have to pick this up for awhile.

Could very well be the case, but I think, if I remember correctly (which truthfully is very doubtful  ;D) both companies did a pretty decent job only signing only the top tier artists and writers. I think the reason they stopped doing it was it became too ineffective when it came to cost vs impact in sales. They were giving these contracts, complete with health insurance and all the bells and whistles, and after a few years of seeing that the books didn't sell "that much more" to counter the cost, both companies decided to drop that aspect of contracts.

I am not sure, of course  ;), but I believe they are starting to bring the exclusive contracts back, but this time in lieu of including health coverage and all the other bells and whistles, they are just paying out a higher rate with the promise from the creator to stay exclusive for a year or two or whatever.

However, if a book they are on still doesn't sell well enough ... and give them the time to work those sub-plots, Marvel or DC can just pull them and put them on another title that needs a boost or one they plan on starting at issue #1.

Yeah, twas a good read. The ending pissed me off, not because of story or writing, but pure "fan" madness if you know what I mean.
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oh ...

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And of course, just so you are aware, Marvel has since changed that one-shot that came out the next month in Previews, Inhumanity: Medusa, into INHUMANITY #2.
I don't think they changed anything within, so I don't think you will need it before the start of the new Inhumans title, but wanted you to know in-case you want to get as much of that "complete" thing going for later
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