Last year, writer Charles Soule and artist Steve McNiven killed off Wolverine in the pages of The Death of Wolverine. But in three months, Soule and McNiven will be back together on a new Marvel ongoing series.
Via IGN, Marvel announced the launch of Uncanny Inhumans, with Soule and McNiven onboard. Soule’s other Inhumans book, Inhuman will continue to run alongside Uncanny Inhumans. Although Uncanny Inhumans will focus on Black Bolt, while Inhuman will continue to follow Queen Medusa.
“If Inhuman is the big, royal-level story focused on the various Inhuman factions and their struggle for control over the Inhuman ‘nation, then Uncanny Inhumans will take more of a street-level approach, looking at some of the battles being fought on the ground, so to speak,” said Soule. “It won’t be quite so focused on New Attilan and the struggles related to it. Maybe more of a global view.
“They will certainly cross over,” added Soule. “In fact, the inciting events for Uncanny will be shown in Inhuman #11 and #12. You don’t have to read those to understand what happens in Uncanny, but my whole plan is to make a really rich, cool reading experience for people.
Soule also spoke about bringing in Kang the Conqueror as the first big villain of Uncanny Inhumans.
“I don’t want to get into the story too much at this point, but it also involves Black Bolt and Ahura (Black Bolt and Medusa’s son),” explained Soule. “The story will involve a very cool mix of Inhumans old and new, but giving you too many details will spoil who survives the events of the coming months in Inhuman. As you might expect with Kang, you’ll get some time travel, and as the Inhumans have been present on earth for more than twenty thousand years, I think that’s a pretty exciting prospect.
Uncanny Inhumans # 0 will launch in April 2015. As for the “Uncanny” in the title, Soule noted that it doesn’t imply any connections to the X-Men. That means it’s just another example of Marvel falling in love with its adjectives and spreading them out across the line.
