3.5 starsI liked this. Black Bolt got swapped somehow? <--I didn't read that one because I just didn't care much about the Inhumans at the time.And instead of his brother (who is now posing as Black Bolt) getting stuck on an Inhuman prison somewhere out in deep space, he wakes up in this prison. Except the prison isn't what BB or the other Inhuman royals thought it was, and it's actually this place that's nothing but a torture camp for an Inhuman psychopath. And it's also not filled with serial

Black Bolt wakes up in a prison somewhere in space with no powers and the other inmates are Crusher Creel, aka The Absorbing Man, the Metal Master, and others. Can Black Bolt unite this band of criminals and bust out of jail?Aside from the Marvel Knights miniseries, I've never ready many Inhumans comics apart from their periodic Fantastic Four appearances. Someone on Twitter likened the series to the sequence in Preludes & Nocturnes when The Sandman met The Martian Manhunter. Now that I've taken...

Best Marvel comic out there right now. Well written, cool artwork, and interesting story. Hopefully this is a series that continues to focus on cool superhero tales.

When he’s not heroically saving the children from racist cereal boxes, Saladin Ahmed’s writing craptastic comics like Black Bolt. I haven’t been reading any Inhumans titles as I couldn’t care less about them so I don’t know if this is part of a larger storyline but Blackagar Boltagon (to use his full stupid name) has been tricked by his brother Maximus into space jail. Sounds like something that’d happen to Black Dolt, and guess wud? He gonna bust out of the pokey. Oh, hello edge of the seat, we...

4ish stars.This is an interesting and entertaining story, even for someone coming in blind concerning Black Bolt and his history with the other Inhumans. You don't really need to know the characters, you just know they're trying to break out of an insane prison, and that's a pretty universal storyline, right? Makes me want to keep reading. Great writing by Ahmed - excitingly plotted, and he voices each of the characters well. Great, impressive art by Christian Ward - detailed and cinematic and w...

I must admit I've never been a big follower of the Inhuman Royal Family, and that I only picked up Black Bolt because it was written by Saladin Ahmed (who has produced distressingly little fiction in the last few years). I was not disappointed - not by Ahmed's compelling (if a little too dialogue-heavy) story, nor by Christian Ward artwork, especially the stunning and surreal page layouts. The story finds Black Bolt stripped of his powers and trapped in a prison where he intended to put his vill...

The birth of a great Marvel writer, a sci-fi prison escape story starring Black Bolt that took me completely by surprise. Wonderfully written and narrated, it was trippy, dark and heartful all at the same time, I even ended up liking Absorbing Man. The art is more of an acquired taste, took some time for me to start enjoying it, but it really grew on me, five stars.

Don't care about the Inhumans? That's good, because this isn't really an Inhumans book. Yes, it does feature Black Bolt and it does spin out of The Royals, but all you really need to know is Black Bolt's brother, Maximus, used an image inducer on him so that he'd be sent to prison in Maximus's place. This is a straight up break out of prison story. You don't need to know anything else about the Inhumans really. Black bolt is sent to an intergalactic prison where he meets up with a bunch of alien...

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Black Bolt gets reimagined in the 2018 Eisner-award-winning new series by writer Saladin Ahmed and illustrator Christian Ward. I wasn’t familiar with (or couldn’t recall) the character, a kind of peripheral one in The Inhumans world, I think, and probably won’t recall him after this comic within a week. The idea is that Blackagar Boltagon, or Black Bolt (let’s stop here and try and imagine a more corny comic book name?!) is imprisoned with enemies such as The Absorbing

Last year marked the television debut of the Inhuman Royal Family, so in preparation I read Inhumans by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, which is a terrific examination of a reclusive society of super-powered beings who each have their own flaw (let alone abilities) and how they confront it. However, due to the universal derision towards the TV series, I chose to stay away from it but did start my fascination with the Inhumans, continuing with Karnak: The Flaw in All Things, which loosely continued som...

Black Bolt wakes to find himself caged and chained.He is in the very prison he intended for Maximus, but he learns even his treacherous brother doesn't deserve such a cage. Black Bolt must find a way to escape without his powers and with whatever allies he can find, including the Absorbing Man Crusher Creel.Hard Time was a bit of a let down. It didn't truly delve into any aspect of Black Bolt. It's rare for him to be able to speak, but rather than him saying or thinking anything interesting he's...

It pains me to say this but I didn't love this as much as I hoped. I read issue 1 when it first came out and really enjoyed it. Wanted to wait till it was done so I can run through the whole first arc. So what's it about? Our boy Black Bolt is trapped in a prison. Not just any prison, it's run by a creature of some sorts who can take away your powers and torture you till you basically die. Over and over again he brings you the point of almost death and then plays the game to bring you back and s...

This is a character I've always found to be somewhat akin to scenery, with less of the personality, but Lo! and behold Ahmed writes him so well as a fish out of water, imprisoned with an assortment of miscreants in The Worst Jail EVER... And the results are fantastic.First off, YAY! power suppression, meaning that the Silent King can, you know, actually have dialogue in his own title. Next up, AMAZING art! So glad they saw the potential in Ahmed's script and got an artistic collaborator in Chris...

An OK start to Black Bolt's solo series. There are some problems here, though:I wasn't a fan of the watercolor looking art. I didn't dislike it enough to detract from my overall opinion of the book, but it just didn't do it for me. They didn't have enough story for the amount of issues here. When one whole issue of a Black Bolt book is a freaking Absorbing Man origin story, you know they are hurting to fill pages. One of the things I like about Black Bolt is that he is so insanely powerful. Here...

Black Bolt gets a whole new lease on life in this graphic novel, which is a prison break story where he has to team up with a bunch of semi-reformed supervillains... including "Crusher" Creel, aka the Absorbing Man. Honestly, the bromance between Black Bolt and Creel is amazing, and justifies the price of the collection by itself. The Absorbing Man has never been this absorbing before! Also, Ward's strange cosmic artwork is gorgeous and I found myself staring obsessively at every page.

Black Bolt is a character that's difficult to care much about, so isolating him in a stand-alone prison breakout story is a smart move. Even here, he takes a backseat to Absorbing Man, the old B-list villain to whom Ahmed gives a sympathetic reassessment. The script is a solid-if-somewhat-predictable prison story, and Ahmed works in some good politics without being clumsy or didactic about it. Christian Ward's distinctive psychedelic artwork is solid, but didn't wow me as much as it did when I f...

I had a HARD TIME finishing this. Incredibly boring from the start. 1.5 stars, out of charity, because I like the character.

As a result of Maximus' plan over in the Royals series, Black Bolt is now imprisoned in one of the most dangerous prisons in the galaxy, and the only way to get out is to team up with hardened criminals. Can the Midnight King escape his bonds and his fellow prisoners in order to save himself?Considering this is (I think?) Saladin Ahmed's first comics work, I was very impressed with this. The story is pretty unique, despite being a prison break-esque type deal, and the character work is very stro...

I love this author right now!I haven't read much of the Inhumans, I'll admit. I read enough when they were featured during some of Marvel's older universe wide events but I'm not a huge fan. Of those issues, Black Bolt was the least interesting character to me. Ahmed changed that for me.This is such a well done series! I admire series that know how to use silence well. Black Bolt doesn't speak so the story is told through artwork, movement and exposition. I got a feel for Black Bolt's pain and f...

Marvel keeps trying to make the Inhumans happen. And so we have a whole series devoted to the one Inhuman who rarely talks...until now. Turns out, he really doesn't have anything interesting to say, and we'll all be better off when he goes back to the elective mutism. The story is just a weird prison break mess about which, appropriately, the less said the better.Well, okay, there's a nice little role for Lockjaw, and the quirky psychedelic art is worth a quick scan. But overall, I think the Kam...