Inhumanity Superior Spider-Man #1 – Review

by Christos Gage (Writer), Stephanie Hans (Artist)

The Story: Otto helps some firemen in helping victims of the terrigen bomb by letting them receive medical care and other such necessities.

The Review: General events are always rather weird when it comes to their storytelling. Much like Dark Reign, Inhumanity seems to be the name of a transition event more than anything, with a few issues being released to say that it exists. With not exactly the same kind of scope as the Norman Osborn dictatorship from a few years back, there are a lesser amount of issues here to tell the story until the actual Inhuman title get launched.

With an issue focused on what Otto Octavius is doing right after the fall of Attilan and the release of the terrigen mist, it doesn’t seem like there is much to tell, unfortunately. Christos Gage, who is generally a good writer, does tell a story set in the aftermath of Infinity, yet many of the problems found in the setting and in the story could have easily been a result of something else entirely, leaving this story with a bare connection to the buildup toward the eventual title following the rise of the inhumans.

That is not to say that the story is completely pointless, of course. There is a certain message brought across in this story, even if it is delivered in a way that feels a bit obvious in some moments. The way Gage makes Otto participate in the search and rescue of people that suffered in the fallout of this tragedy does make for some rather nice moments, which are enhanced a bit by the action brought in the second half of the issue.