 A myth from the future. A quest to the stars. A legend written across galaxies. Guided by the other dimensional Kree warrior called Marvel Boy, the Inhuman Royal family departs on an odyssey across all creation, their mission to search for lost secrets and the last hope of their people. The knowledge the royals seek could change the course of Inhuman destiny, but it cannot be attained without cost, for at the end of days the last Inhuman tells the tale of how seven left Earth for the stars, but only six returned. Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode. Another edition of A Week in Geekdom here on YouTube. I went ahead and finally read royals from the Inhumans. This is written by Al Ewing and done with art, I should say, by a bunch of people from John Boy Meyers to Javier Rodriguez and a bunch of other talented folk that really bring these characters to life. These are the two volumes right here. You got Beyond Inhuman and Judgment Day. Now in order if you're interested in this book it might be a little bit worrisome because you're gonna have to read up on some things. Now the book does a perfectly good job of telling you who the Inhuman royal family is and sort of the basic premise, but if you really want to get the most out of this I really have to recommend Charles Soles Uncanny in Human Run, his Inhuman books, and of course Jonathan Hickman's event Infinity with the Avengers and the Illuminati in New Avengers. So yeah it's a lot of work if you really want to get the most out of this story. If not then just go ahead and read it. Just assume things are the way they are and you'll like it. But as I always say some background information really goes a long way and makes you appreciate the story a whole lot more. With royals you have a very weird situation. You've got a team of characters which I love. I am a big Inhumans fan and you've got these characters that I have recently been through some really tough ordeals especially after the event in Humans vs X-Men which left them at a evolutionary stand still if you will. I won't spoil that event but this Royals series goes straight after that. Of course that event ended Charles Soles run on the characters and Al picked up the story and moved it to the stars and beyond in a tale that is about family compromise and what it truly means to be alive and what it truly means to make that sacrifice for your people. And if it's really worth it this obsession this cultish obsession if you will to progress a species forward instead of maybe reorganizing rebranding or doing something else and I'll get to that in a minute why I say that. The characters are all awesome I love Medusa, Black Bolt, Gorgon, Crystal, yada yada and you got your new humans as well such as Flint, Inferno, Eso and stuff like that Reader, Frank McGee there's a bunch of characters that Charles Soles introduced in his Inhuman run which lasted for like 50 to 60 issues and most of these characters go into Royals as well. Now after the events of Inhuman vs X-Men there is a way and this is a slight spoiler to further improve pterogenesis and it has to do with the cosmos and the roots, the origins of the Inhumans with the Kree experiments and you finally have an answer as to how this came about and who actually created their creators and it goes into that in a very grandiose matter and when I read an Inhuman story or an Inhuman's book there are certain things I expect of it and one is their world building it's a very secretive society and unfortunately to them not for us the Inhuman run from Charles Soles expanded that and created new Atalan of course the city was destroyed and they had to rebuild so they finally opened up to the world and a lot of people in real life did not like that they had this notion that the Inhumans are supposed to be super secretive and you only have to enjoy them in small bursts of books here and there well well I say nay I want an Inhumans ongoing book I don't like the idea of just doing a small run cancelling it and maybe down the line we'll maybe see another limited series I'm not a fan of that because there's an uncertainty about it of course everybody started complaining about the X-Men and all that stuff I won't get into it I love all the characters they're just great in their own right I don't happen to be a huge X-Men fan but I've always liked the Inhumans because of the aspect that it's a secret society they're not really humans per se they may look like us but it's a different species if you will they were tampered with back in prehistoric times so they're not technically humans that's the whole point even though they got superpowers and all that stuff whatever their genetic makeup is different than the mutants and that is what sets them apart in my opinion now this the book of royals is really well written can get a little bit wordy and it goes into several pathological themes with the characters and their journey to find out where they came from and what do they have to do to further progress their evolution and I I'm trying my best not to spoil anything because I want you to experience it firsthand the way the characters are written by out ewing it's a very smart snappy dialogue I love the team dynamic especially with a certain character that hops on board and just it's really fun if you followed Charles run you're gonna enjoy this because it flows so well from when he was doing and the voice that these characters are given does not deviate too much from what the previous author was doing the one exception to this is the character of Gorgon that goes through a major change in his plot in his history that I'm sorry I I didn't see it coming I guess I need to read read some things but it took me out of the story because I was like come on man now I am not a fan of a certain change that was made with him and another character and I think it should have been done a little bit differently it was a little bit too rushed if there's anything wrong with this book I'm gonna say that it is probably a rushed story and that tends to happen with the inhumans for some reason since we don't get a whole lot of exposure to these characters everybody has this notion that if you're writing it in humans book you gotta hurry it up because you don't know when it's gonna be canceled so you have like I think this was like 12 or 14 issues and just jam packed everything in and hope for the best and yeah Al does a good job of presenting a streamlined story about this journey and of course it's not about the destination it's about the journey yada yada but the way it's concluded leaves much to be desired there is some prophecy stuff that happens near the end and you get visions the story shifts back and forth between timelines of a possible future with what could be the last inhuman and when you do find out what it is it's actually a pretty clever story twist if you will with the character of marvel boy and the way that he tells the inhumans like hey we I have got the solution for you about your ancestry your DNA and all that stuff and it's he's the catalyst for the royal family to go into space also as if your homework wasn't hard enough the second volume which introduces the progenitors I think I said that right introduces or reintroduces I should say the concept of the universal in humans which first popped up or not first popped up but it was prevalent in the later half of Hickman's fantastic forerun when the inhumans left Cree and returned to earth and suddenly a bunch of inhumans from outer space started popping up this book relies heavily on the fact that you know the layers of these characters and the royal family and what all the stuff that they've gone through it sort of depends on that so in that regard I cannot fully recommend royals if you've never read it my heart is in it I want to say oh you should go ahead and read royals but I know a lot of people will be confused as to what the heck's going on you've got Medusa with short hair for some reason you've got the character of black bull doing his own thing which I happen to have the book right here this is runs alongside this book there is an explanation inside but it leads into the next chapter of the inhumans saga if you will now as for the art in this book I have to say John Boy Myers I love his art it's very expressive dynamic bright colorful and very kinetic energy manga inspired if you will but I was a little bit lost and you can see it right here on this image on the cover it's a bunch of stuff happening at the same time it's that kind of art style like here it's it's a little bit crowded in my opinion a little bit muddied it looks great but reading it I don't know I wasn't a fan as I thought I was going to be but it's still pretty damn cool to look at it's actually pretty cool seeing the different interpretations of Medusa on these books because everybody has totally different styles when it comes to drawing her hair and the usage of her powers and all that stuff so I always get a kick out of seeing what artists do with this character so yeah after that Javier Rodriguez and several other artists jump in it's not as flashy looking but man I uh I gotta say I dug it you get beautiful landscapes like this and beautiful art just look so cool to me this is probably spoilers but this particular spread was just fantastic I love this so much my one big gripe and with this I'm closing this video with every single inhumans book I mentioned it at the beginning of the video is the fact that they are so busy trying to present a cool kick ass story that they forget that these characters thrive on drama dialogue and world building the world of Atalan and the inhumans is magnificent it is super awesome it it's it's very alien-ish inside of earth and that is the aspect that I love I always tell my friends you know to me like the perfect inhumans book would be this is Game of Thrones ask a drama with like warring kingdoms and the politics and all that stuff and you do get that in most of the books but not enough to where I'm satisfied so that is always one of my major complaints but at the end of the day Royals is about a family trying to find their place and to further develop and evolve their species their family and all that stuff in the face of adversity in the face of extinction and how you can proceed from there that is what I took away from Royals I think Al Ewing did a fantastic job what do you guys think of Royals let me know down below if you like the inhumans what one what's your favorite inhuman family member and two what's your favorite inhuman storyline I'm very interested in finding out guys thank you so much as always you can like comment and subscribe to but we can geek them here on youtube hit the notification bell thingamajig so you know when new videos are popping up and yeah follow me on your social media platform from facebook twitter instagram and all that stuff I'm 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