This April, Marvel Comics will be launching a new ongoing series called Uncanny Inhumans by writer Charles Soule and artist Steve McNiven. That's right, the same team that killed Wolverine last year will be ushering in the next comic to feature the Inhumans in 2015.

Uncanny Inhumans #0 cover by Steve McNiven.

Uncanny Inhumans will start with a #0 issue in April. As the cover implies, the series will primarily focus on Black Bolt. Currently, Black Bolt is thought dead by the Inhumans and the world at large, with only his fellow Illuminati members knowing he survived the events of Infinity. However, in Avengers and New Avengers, which takes place eight months in the future, he just revealed himself to the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D.This comic is the latest in a huge push Marvel has been making for the Inhumans franchise. Between the Inhumans movie announced for 2018, the Inhuman locations and concepts appearing in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show, and the growing presence of the Inhumans in Marvel's comic book universe, they've received an enormous boost in visibility.Also, Soule is currently writing the Inhuman ongoing series, so he will now be writing two comics featuring the Inhumans.We conducted an email interview with Soule about the upcoming series, asking him about how Inhuman and Uncanny Inhumans will be different, who the villain will be, and more. Check out what he had to say, then let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Uncanny Inhuman #0 variant cover by Simone Bianchi.

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I've been working on Inhuman since the beginning, and one of the themes of that series has always been to expand the idea of what the Inhumans could mean to the Marvel Universe - new characters, new ideas, new locations, everything. And at this point, we looked at everything going on with Inhuman and realized it could easily support another big title. That's what Uncanny Inhumans is - an expansion of the storytelling related to the Inhumans in the MU, looking at who they are and what they mean from a different angle.Well, if Inhuman is the big, royal-level story focused on the various Inhuman factions and their struggle for control over the Inhuman "nation," then Uncanny Inhumans will take more of a street-level approach, looking at some of the battles being fought on the ground, so to speak. It won't be quite so focused on New Attilan and the struggles related to it. Maybe more of a global view.Another key difference is that Inhuman focuses on Queen Medusa, while Uncanny's lead will be (primarily) Black Bolt. That said, the idea is to continue to bring up the newer characters we've met, guys like Reader, Lineage, Inferno, Iso, good old Frank McGee, and others in both books.They will certainly cross over - in fact, the inciting events for Uncanny will be shown in Inhuman #11 and #12. You don't have to read those to understand what happens in Uncanny, but my whole plan is to make a really rich, cool reading experience for people.Uncanny has been used in the Marvel Universe to refer to a number of different books - I mean, there's Uncanny Avengers, and others. I wouldn't read too much more into it than that - uncanny just means strange, really, or unexpected. I think the Inhumans are certainly that.That's actually something of a complex question, but in short, no - while some of the Inhumans will be aware of Black Bolt's survival, his appearances in Uncanny (and any additional appearances in Inhuman that may or may not occur...) will be set up with what I would call plausible deniability.I have a ton of tricks planned to handle that, but I'll admit that a non-speaking protagonist can be tough. Lots of gestures and steely looks. Supporting characters can do some of the talking for him, of course. But I think there's a lot of appeal in the idea of a lead character who doesn't speak. He maintains an aura of mystery. You can only interpret what he's thinking by what you see him do. You also have no idea what he'll do next. As with most writing challenges, I think it opens at least as many doors as it closes.I would work with Steve constantly, if I could! I think at this point that I know how to write for him - I know what interests him as an artist, and I know what kind of guy he is personally (I've had the pleasure of hanging out with him a few times - great, great fellow.) Mostly, though, I know how he goes from script to page. So, I know where I can back off on the dialogue a bit, or just suggest that he go in one direction or another. A shorthand is coming together, and I think you'll see that when Uncanny Inhumans starts to run.The villain for the first story is Kang the Conqueror! I don't want to get into the story too much at this point, but it also involves Black Bolt and Ahura (his son with Medusa, who has been missing since the events of Jonathan Hickman's Infinity event from 2013.) The story will involve a very cool mix of Inhumans old and new, but giving you too many details will spoil who survives the events of the coming months in Inhuman. As you might expect with Kang, you'll get some time travel, and as the Inhumans have been present on earth for more than twenty thousand years, I think that's a pretty exciting prospect.As people have seen, characters aren't really safe in Inhuman. Anything can and does happen to them. I wanted to re-establish a sense of danger in superhero comics, and working with a ton of new characters lets me do that. You never know what will happen next, because you don't know who's "important" in the same way as you do if you're something like a Justice League issue. Uncanny Inhumans will very much carry on that tradition.I wouldn't put it that way. I knew about the SHIELD appearances a while ago, but we'd already set up our story, and in any case, we're looking at a different side of the Inhumans from the TV angle. I think our goal in the comics is just to tell fantastic stories using the Inhuman character set - to integrate them into the Marvel comics universe. That's enough of a (good) challenge in and of itself. It's not to say we couldn't get some more direct synergy going down the road, but right now we're focused on making incredible, amazing, uncanny comics.Well, I suppose he probably wouldn't be playing Medusa.I have no idea whether Vin Diesel has a role in the Inhuman movie, although he's certainly got the physique for Black Bolt - or Gorgon, for that matter, although he'd have to replace his legs with hooves, which I hear is a painful procedure.Anyway, I'm writing Black Bolt like I write Black Bolt - if a live-action version comes along that infiltrates my brain to such a degree that my takes evolves, well, that would just mean someone did a hell of a job getting Black Bolt into the zeitgeist - which I would be perfectly fine with!You've got Steve McNiven drawing an epic, globe-spanning adventure starring Black Bolt (who, for my money, is one of the most badass characters in comics.) We'll see Black Bolt in a role we haven't really seen all that much before - he's not really the "king" in this story - he's a guy on a very personal quest. It's going to feel very fresh, I think, and it's an opportunity to feature Mr. Bolt and his powers in entirely new ways. You want high-energy, straight up superpowered adventure? Uncanny Inhumans is your book.

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