8 Reasons Why Inhumans Could Never Replace The X-Men

3. They Work Better Used Sparingly

Inhumans Vs X-Men
Marvel Comics

The Inhumans were never really meant to hold an ongoing story.

If you keep pumping out more stories set in the culture on Inhumans, it keeps wearing away at what makes it special and interesting.

The most successful Inhumans titles are the ones where Inhumans are separated from all those elements. For long form ongoings, an Inhuman character like Ms. Marvel works perfectly: the focus of the story isn't her Inhumanity, it's simply where her powers come from.

The more time spent grounding Inhumans, the less special they become, because certainly in the comics, we already have something like that that is grounded enough for a reader to relate to more normally - X-Men.

Inhumans, or at the very least the Royal Inhumans and their culture, should be kept as something used sparingly. Something we don't see every week, and where each time they appear feels special and like something important is about to happen.

When they try to ground them and make them an ongoing concern, it feels like Marvel are trying to rip off something they already did.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.