Death of Inhumans #1 is haunting and dark, and the perfect way to send off characters who have a dark history. Read Full Review

Donny Cates, Ariel Oletti, and Jordie Bellaire ran 50 yards and slam-dunked this one out of the park. It's a huge step in the right direction for The Inhumans franchise, and has the gravity and weight the Inhumans need right now. Read Full Review

I think we have enough background on Cates to know how amazing his stories can be. Now's your chance to hop on the train as it leaves the station. It really was a great action-packed start to the series. Read Full Review

Overall Death of the Inhumans #1 is an incredible start to this five issue mini-series. Donny Cates once again knocks it out of the park with another epic tale.Ariel Olivetti and Jordie Bellaire make for stellar art team that brings this monumental tale to life. Death of the Inhumans #1 does have some minor flaws, but the good far outweighs the bad. If you are even a tiny fan of the Inhumans (did you have that Triton toy that swam in the water too?) or if you like good comics then definitely pick this up. Read Full Review

Cates trademark clever-yet-authoritative voice combines with a fearsome new villain and excellent characterization of Black Bolt to turn what could have been a chance for him to take it easy into one of his most intense titles yet. Prepare for the coming devastation. Read Full Review

Between Cates compelling and information packed story and Olivetti and Bellaire's scene and character appropriate art Death of Inhumans #1 is one hell of a page turner. Read Full Review

An interesting and consequential story, "Death of the Inhumans" uses the race's mythology to expand upon it. Hopefully, next issues will show a stronger balance on how lead characters influence the action around them. Read Full Review

Pulling no punches, Cates wastes zero time in stacking up the casualties whether we're ready to experience them or not. Read Full Review

This miniseries is not for fans of the Inhumans. If you've been enjoying any of their recent series or their development, you will be very turned off by this comic. But for a comic titled "Death of the Inhumans", it certainly doesn't false-advertise. It delivers on what it promises, in a very brutal, dreary way. Read Full Review

I'm always a believer that any franchise that has lasted any significant length of time has potential, and I don't think the Inhumans are exempt - but as far as first issues go, Death of the Inhumans doesn't kick off with a bang, but with a feeling of underwhelming silence. Read Full Review

Death of the Inhumans #1 is a very poorly-handled rending of the Inhumans oeuvre. The characters are slaughtered with little fanfare. There is no build-up or payoff, and its more frustrating than heartbreaking. The art is good, but it doesnt salvage the painfully thin script. Vox looks cool, but thats the best that can be said for this book. Give it a pass. Read Full Review

Some Marvel fans are likely to be saddened by the choices made, but that's not the result of "shocking" choices, nor this hollow vehicle of a story. Read Full Review

Man...it's been a long time since I read a Donny Cates book, and this reminded me why he's one of my favourite writers. This was epic, brutal, and devastating. Only points off are for the art which was inconsistent. Good in parts, bad in others. The story and writing are absolutely peak though.

This was good!!

Damn, this was worth the 4.99 price tag, and probably my favorite 5 dollar book. Kaare Andrews is one hell of a good artist, I took a moment to really appreciate the cover. I guess this book is necessary on behalf of the first marvel flop being the inhuman series. Donny Cates is the hero marvel needs.

"Death of the Inhumans" #1 is a really great book--I didn't know quite what to expect, but I was riveted from page one till the end. The story is dark in tone, and Donny Cates does perfectly with his narration. It seems like an old-school comic book method, but it really worked here. The art by Ariel Olivetti is super--I don't know if I've seen his stuff before, but this comic really looks great. And it focuses on the most interesting Inhumans, not all those nuhumans I didn't care about. Great stuff!

Cates does it again. This issue was amazing. Breakneck pace that never lets you get settled. The story makes so much sense and makes me think why hasn't this been done already. The new vilian is cool.

I'm so angry about Maximus and Lockjaw.

I didn’t think it was too bad. Definitely shocking and sad. I’ll see where it goes.

Interesting and tight storytelling, with loads happening but without a particular explanation 'why' so far, except for a few minor sentences. I wonder how this will develop, but so far it's really good - and if you're really invested in the Inhumans, then I've got some bad news for you.

It was OK. Cates didn't deliver a proper story or even a hint as to why we're here but he spends more time with the King contemplating Rome which i just don't buy at all. That part took away from the emotion Cates was going for with all of the carnage. Too bad i had high hopes. Unfortunately Olivetti's art isn't his best here. He's going for a different style and it just didn't work for me. He's still very good but somehow didn't match his greatness of past. I will continue to read and see where Donny takes us and i have faith in him but this wasn't good.

The Kree have issued a demand, “join or die.” It’s less of a choice than an order that presents one possibility. The Kree have devastated the Inhumans. Meanwhile, Cates casts Black Bolt as a silent, ruminating King. Black Bolt is emotional and wounded, but resolute on action. The King is broken by the end of the comic.

The Silent King spends a lot of time thinking about Rome as Inhumans die and cities fall around him. This seems a bit disingenuous to me. It feels like Cates wants to draw a clever comparison between the fall of Rome and the fall of the Inhumans. It’s not clever. Cates spends so much time on this an extended metaphor.

There is a partial truth in the metaphor, the Inhumans are falling quick . The Kree have engineered Super Inhumans with murder as their only mandate. There’s little time spent on anything else. What both Cates and Ariel Olivetti do very well in this book is make the Kree scary. There’s an ominous tone to the book that works to make readers take these deaths seriously. The colors by Jordie Bellaire vary: muted and washed out. They work well with a book that focuses on narration.

I’m not a huge fan of the way Olivetti draws the Royal family. I find them ugly in a way that takes me out of the story a bit. But his designs for the other Inhumans are fantastic. Each looks unique, so we get more of a sense of what we lose in their deaths.

The big bad, Vox, also looks scary AF. His uniform is minimal with the same bolts on his chest as Black Bolt. He’s adorned in devilish black and red. For the most part he doesn’t speak, which allows him to be what he is: a killing machine.


Where the book fails for me is page after page of a solemn Black Bolt. The rest of the royal family fades into the background, save for a couple members. Death happens quick. So quick that it might hurt for fans of the family. There is no time to mourn, no time to make death feel noble. Combine that with the fact that this is as of now a five issue miniseries… that’s not a long time to say goodbye. If the Inhumans are dying, and staying dead, I hope we have time to say goodbye to these amazing characters and creations. more

How unconvincing the kills appear seems very worrying to me.

Well, the title's not kidding. The creators put on an authoritative but dusty-dry voice. Like an obituary, but in a tiny small-town paper where storytelling talent's in short supply. (And characterization talent left this town years back.) The visuals, like the words, are stiff and dull. They do a poor job of conveying emotion, narrative flow, and action, and that doesn't leave a lot of room for artistic positives.

I detest the plot choices - not just the characters and races eliminated but also the decision to ignore so much of Royals. Vox is a mighty contender for the worst villain. His look is stupid and his description is juvenile. A Super-Inhuman? Really? I'd be less disappointed if they went full Silver Age and called him Grim Reaperon.

Yeah, the Inhumans have been over-exposed in the past 5 years. Yeah, a lot of their stories in those years stank. That should earn them a healthy stretch in comicbook limbo, not this vindictive and, again, juvenile murderfest.
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This is appalling. Just when the Inhumans have had two outstanding series that developed the characters and moved the mythology along (Al Ewing's Royals and Saladin Ahmed's Black Bolt) here's a story that ignores all of that in favor of an artless massacre. There was a lot of interesting potential for future stories set up in those series, but it doesn't even seem that Cates has even read them. It's not just disregard for continuity that rankles, but the nullification of good stories for a cheap killfest with a poorly-developed set-up and a horror movie's disinterest in anything but getting from one death to the next. I was never much of a fan of the Inhumans, but this is just terrible.

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Kreniigh - Jul 7, 2018

On further reflection, imagine a Death of Asgard series where some new villain attacks Thor and his supporting cast as if none of the War of the Realms had happened (Thor and Volstaag back in their old identities, no mention of Malekith's schemes), and all the ongoing plot threads of the war will never be mentioned again. But he kills them all off in COOL ways! That's how this feels.

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Pitiful. A Judge Fear ripoff kills a load of characters no one cares about. And those who are good will soon be back again.

Marvel, are there any other Jack Kirby creations you want to kill?