All-New Inhumans #4
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"The Inhumans don’t serve as an analogue for minority and oppressed groups the way that mutants often did. But to me — that’s not a bug in the system, that’s a feature. That territory is already well handled by the mutants. While All-New Inhumans is a team book, by the end of the first arc, you should see that the cast are on different paths as individuals. And we will see the ways they aim for very different things. It’s an opportunity to compare, contrast, and explore the way individuals around the world step up in a globalized era.
"Increasingly, the real world is filled with unique people embracing the power to change the world in all manner of ways. I see our book as exploring parallels to the opportunities, challenges, and risks that come with the spread of digital tools. People are embracing digital tools, platforms, and connections for good, bad, and the complicated space in between.
"So as new Inhumans become empowered around the world — will it turn them into the next Malala Yousafzai? Donald Trump? Edward Snowden? We live in a time when regular individuals can suddenly seize and leverage influence and power. It can pit them against their own society with massive and public results. To me, Inhumans provide an opportunity to explore more complex stories of identity — personal, cultural, national, and ideological — and the tension and friction between those." - James Asmus











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Date: 2016-07-09 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-09 02:33 pm (UTC)And it's nice to know that even though they know what Bolt did was horrible, he's still allowed to roam free and run a bar.
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Date: 2016-07-09 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-09 04:51 pm (UTC)As much as I still dislike the Inhumans, I do always like seeing a story where the heroes win by appealing to people's basic humanity.
Question: What's the SHIELD situation in this book? Because a group of superhumans with links to a monarchist/nondemocratic government going around toppling other governments, even bad ones, and then backing their replacements seems like exactly the kind of thing that SHIELD ought to be trying to stop.
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Date: 2016-07-11 01:57 am (UTC)