Inhumans: Once and Future Kings
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:42 am
This limited series has the Royals as young adults (Crystal is still a girl, Lockjaw is middle-sized), after Agon and Rynda's death (it's referenced) but still with the Unspoken as king (so before he's overthrown in MA 27-FB).
At first, I would have put this series some years before FF 45. But Spider-Man appears, with a Peter Parker taking photographs for Jonah. The Wizard also appears, with a cameo of the Trapster, not in his first costume. He has his jail detention reduced in A 6, and appears next in his second costume in ST 124, so INHS:OAFK could be put a bit after A 6, circa FF 29 and ASM 14. Medusa becomes involved with the Frightful Four in FF 36.
But this series retcons the Triton story in T 150/2-152/2. In those, Triton is the first Inhuman to leave Attilan and meet humans. He's captured by an undersea film crew, and frees himself as soon as they reach New York. He observe humans, then reports back to his king Black Bolt and advices him to move Attilan away from its island.
In INHS:OAFK, Triton has still been captured by an undersea film crew (an editor note points to T 150), but he's been studied by biologists for months. When he's at least able to communicate with them, they release him. Then he finds Karnak and Black Bolt in New York, and they all leave together for Attilan, at a time when the Unspoken is still king.
So INHS:OAFK could fit with T 150/2 (Triton is captured), but not with T 151/2-152/2, and I don't think we can reconcile them. It could work if we ignore the editor note pointing to Thor 150/2 and suppose that Triton has been abducted twice, one time in INHS:OAFK with the Unspoken as king, and another time in T 150/2 with Black Bolt as king. But that would mean a lot happens between FF 29 and 45 : the Unspoken is overthrown, all Royals and Lockjaw grow up a little bit, Black Bolt sends Triton to the outside world, and after that takes Attilan in the Himalayas.
There's also a FB in INHS2 9 that shows a young Triton saving a child from a liner's sinking, and this child has become an old man in the main story. This goes against having young Royals after FF 1.
So what do you think? Should we hornshoe INHS:OAFK post FF 1 or declare it out of continuity?
At first, I would have put this series some years before FF 45. But Spider-Man appears, with a Peter Parker taking photographs for Jonah. The Wizard also appears, with a cameo of the Trapster, not in his first costume. He has his jail detention reduced in A 6, and appears next in his second costume in ST 124, so INHS:OAFK could be put a bit after A 6, circa FF 29 and ASM 14. Medusa becomes involved with the Frightful Four in FF 36.
But this series retcons the Triton story in T 150/2-152/2. In those, Triton is the first Inhuman to leave Attilan and meet humans. He's captured by an undersea film crew, and frees himself as soon as they reach New York. He observe humans, then reports back to his king Black Bolt and advices him to move Attilan away from its island.
In INHS:OAFK, Triton has still been captured by an undersea film crew (an editor note points to T 150), but he's been studied by biologists for months. When he's at least able to communicate with them, they release him. Then he finds Karnak and Black Bolt in New York, and they all leave together for Attilan, at a time when the Unspoken is still king.
So INHS:OAFK could fit with T 150/2 (Triton is captured), but not with T 151/2-152/2, and I don't think we can reconcile them. It could work if we ignore the editor note pointing to Thor 150/2 and suppose that Triton has been abducted twice, one time in INHS:OAFK with the Unspoken as king, and another time in T 150/2 with Black Bolt as king. But that would mean a lot happens between FF 29 and 45 : the Unspoken is overthrown, all Royals and Lockjaw grow up a little bit, Black Bolt sends Triton to the outside world, and after that takes Attilan in the Himalayas.
There's also a FB in INHS2 9 that shows a young Triton saving a child from a liner's sinking, and this child has become an old man in the main story. This goes against having young Royals after FF 1.
So what do you think? Should we hornshoe INHS:OAFK post FF 1 or declare it out of continuity?