Well, for some unknown reason Front Page (and the Feedback forms) are working again--which probably means that the problem was on the server end, and that I slagged Microsoft unfairly. I can't feel too badly for ole Microsoft, though, considering all the times their software has given me fits and I didn't say a mumblin' word. Still, since everything's copacetic for the moment, lets get busy....
Inhumans #2
by Jenkins and Lee
Marvel, color, $2.99
rating: Neat-O
I would never have given this comic a second look if it hadn't been for my good friend Jeff Lang's recommendation, and that would have been a pity, since the only thing I didn't like about this comic was its (relatively) high price--and even then it's only high for a Marvel book. I pay that much without blinking for almost anything that, say, Viz puts out--and that in black and white.
While this is apparently the second of a four-issue mini-series, as far as I can tell it's a stand-alone one-issue story. If it ties in to what had gone before (I didn't read #1), or leaves anything that really cries for resolution in #3, it's not obvious to me. What it is is a basic coming-of-age story in a rather odd society, focussing on the night before a group of young Inhumans are to enter the "terrigen mists" that will transform them from basic human stock into full-fledged Inhumans, and the uncertainty and fear that they deal with since nobody who enters the mists knows what they will do to them. Some get beneficial, or even beautiful mutations, some...
