Marvel Sending Inhumans To Space For New Series

Marvel Comics has announced its first post-Inhumans vs. X-Men ResurrXion series to feature the Inhumans. The new series is titled Royals and will star the Inhuman Royal Family as they leave Earth and journey into outer space. The series will be written by Al Ewing (New Avengers, The Ultimates) and illustrated by Jonboy Meyers (Spider-Man, X-Men) and will launch in April 2017.

The core cast of Royals includes Medusa, Black Bolt, Crystal and Gorgon of the Inhuman Royal Family. They are joined by Nuhumans Swain and Flint and Marvel Boy, the former Young Avenger and Kree hero from an alternate universe. The group will travel across the galaxy to the remains of the Kree homeworld of Hala, destroyed during the events of The Black Vortex, as they search for the secrets of Terrigenesis, the transformative process that unlocks an individual's Inhuman genetic potential.

"It's not the first time the Royals have been to space, admittedly, but I promise they've never been this far out before. I wanted to create a myth from the future, a quest to find answers and meaning in the face of extinction," Ewing told IGN. "In some ways, this is similar to my run on [Loki: Agent of Asgard], the thing that'll let me explore ideas of myth and metaphor, that'll allow me to play around on a grand tapestry. And the further out I get, the bigger I can go. I want to take this book to a place where Marvel-Earth -- the Marvel Galaxy -- isn't even a speck in the sky."

While trying to spoil too much about the events of IvX, Ewing did hint that there's a reason why the Inhumans embarking on such a massive quest. "Let's just say that Terrigenesis is... not working out great the way it currently is. It's doing terrible things to the mutant population, and it's roaming the Earth as a giant cloud, and really, knowing more about it doesn't seem like that crazy an idea, even if it does take the form of a giant space quest."

The mission is one that will cost the Inhumans. Ewing promised that someone embarking on this journey won't be returning home. "It's a quest, and quests should have some kind of consequence to them," he said. "Plus, if I told you 'Anyone could die, honest!'... well, you wouldn't believe me. It'd be just more high stakes, like in every issue of every cape comic ever. But if I tell you that someone will die, that it's prophesied, baked in, suddenly there really are high stakes. One of these people is going to go to the far shore and not come back. And you're going to fall in love with all of these characters, so it's going to matter when it happens."

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Check out the teaser image for Royals below, and look for Royals #1 in comic book stores in April 2017.