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Marvel’s Inhumans. was released in 2017 on ABC and had a pretty short lifespan of just one season. Originally announced as a feature film, Inhumans was reworked for television, though it had a lackluster reception. Inhumans currently sits with an 11% Tomatometer rating and a 42% Popcornmeter rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which says it all. Around this same time, the comics started pushing the Inhumans as well, with several titles launched and events tied to the powerful group. However, the death knell for the Inhumans came in 2018 with the event series Death of the Inhumans, which essentially sidelined the franchise and put the Inhumans on the shelf to collect dust. But all it takes is one good story to capture audiences and revitalize what was once deemed a lost cause. There may be a clue pointing to this happening with the Inhumans in Imperial.
Imperial May Be Leading to the Return of the Inhumans
Marvel released the cover and solicitation for Imperial #4, the final issue of the four-part event series by writer Jonathan Hickman and artists Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini. What’s notable about the cover by Marco Checchetto is that it features the teleporting Inhuman dog Lockjaw, holding Ronan the Accuser’s hammer in his mouth. That by itself isn’t a sign that the Inhumans are returning, but what Marvel reveals about the contents of Imperial #4 does.
The press release for Imperial #4 highlights the major players in the cosmic conflict that appear on the cover, like Hulk, Nova, Shuri, Star-Lord, and Super-Skrull, but it also mentions that it “also teases the involvement of a powerful group that has yet to make their presence in the conflict known…” Since we can clearly see all the characters on the Imperial #4 cover, and they’re all called out except for Lockjaw, the only conclusion we can come to is that this powerful group who has yet to appear inside Imperial will be the Inhumans.
