Spencer writes a nice villain with his Captain Hydra. Too bad it strains under all the leaps you have to make for Secret Empire to work. Death Camps? Sure, that works in America, never happened before but whatever. Cap takes down mutants, inhumans, and other 'undesirables'. Why not? He manages to somehow subvert Shield, Sword, all eighty some odd Avengers teams. Okay. At this point if you can handle the copy and pasting of Nazi Germany parallels onto the United States without adjustments for different cultures good for you. Harry Turtledove wrote a good alternate history series called the Victorious Opposition. That series details how a fascist america would look. This series does not. more

Overall I think that Black Bolt #1 had an amazingly strong start, with enough story and drama to make someone anticipate for the next volume of the series. The writer made an amazing work to portray a story which a lot of recent comics seems to miss and most especially for a character that will not talk and together with an amazing art from Christian Ward, Black Bolt is a series set for success.