#karnak mander azur

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fuck it favorite inhumans panels time

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Silver Surfer (1987) #60

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Secret Warriors #2 (2017) Matthew Rosenberg Javier Garrón

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January 21, 2024

Happy 54 Birthday to Ken Leung.

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If I was given the chance to plan out an inhumans book, this is what I'd do

When I started thinking about this, one idea came right into my mind, try to get Karnak into a broader side of the Marvel universe, mainly building up from the events of his solo series and the 2017 secret warrios.

But first, some background details

If we ignore his random appearance on Death of the Inhumans, Karnak has been exiled from inhuman society due to his irresponsible behavior that puts other Inhumans in danger as long as it helps fufill his plans.

Karnak has also adopted a more direct and violent approach to his actions, caring more about results than the safety of himself or others in the way.

During the events of secret warriors we also learnt Karnak has a son named Leer, who becomes powerless as his terrigenesis was a one use ability, sadly, this is basically all we know about Leer, and even the identity of his mother is a mystery.

With the background set, this is my plan

The story follows Karnak and Leer traveling across the world in search of shrines of wisdom and power, as Leer needs to learn and train as to become magister one day.

Leer inquires about his mother, which causes Karnak's cynical façade to go down as he reveals she is alive and well, as well as revealing her identity to the readers.

Karnak's quest leads to many fights with strong heroes and villains alike, karnak defeating all of them by finding a flaw, this leads father and son to K'un-Lun, where Karnak's attitude and disrespect creates conflict with the iron fist.

Karnak is unable to find a flaw and is defeated, Leer approaches the iron fist and requests he and his father may stay at K'un-Lun, when questioned why should Karnak be allowed to stay, Leer whispers to the iron fist his flaw, the one Karnak was unable to find.

Karnak and Leer's relationship is almost non-existent, and Leer finds himsel in a very interesting situation, being powerless as the son of the inhuman who developed powers by pure determination and training.

This story would open up slightly the wall of cynicism and nihilism Karnak built after returning to life, would give Leer the chance to become a fighter and create and actual relationship wity his father, and would introduce Karnak into the mystical side of Marvel with characters like the Iron Fist and Shang Chi.

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More then 1 Inhumans book?

So while I hope after Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’s mini that Marvel will put out another Inhumans book shortly I do wonder could they handle more then one.  During the push, people were saying the Inhumans couldn’t handle more then one book but then this also had people mixing in their feelings of not liking them just because of what was happening to the X books.  At the same time we have people going on how there is only really like 4 Inhumans worth looking at (this usually changes based on the person’s thoughts), but could they hold more then one.  Give other Inhumans time to shine?  If you are a fan of the Inhumans I ask you to try to participate in planning around a character.   What you would need to do is pick 1 Inhuman and think what they would want to do with them. 4 points. You can include other Inhumans to interact with and play a big enough role for them, but only 1 staring Royal, and 1 staring Nuhuman (staring meaning they played a main role in an Inhumans book) can be added, with a max of 8 Inhumans/characters your chosen Inhuman being in the count. If you are doing this check reblogs as that will be way to share your idea.  When an Inhuman is used it means they are used in another book so can’t be used. My character/ example: Ahura Boltagon 1) Gives up trying to escape the Royal life, and decideds wants to improve it and Attilan culture for future Inhumans. 2) Forms a team to be more like the Merry Men from Robin Hood, as they act more anti-hero stealing and attacking known villain groups. The team has a balance of different Inhuman status Grid (staring Nuhuman), Haechi (Nuhuman), Alaris (Commoner), Kalikya(Commoner), Treste(Commoner/Royal?), and Ahura (staring Royal) 3) Ahura and Treste in a relationship, with so much time offscreen they can be far enough in it and possibly married. 4) His powers are revealed to be all forms of energy manipulation and transference, no emitting (save for what a body can) but has a sphere of influnce that covers the whole world.

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Today we talk about the remaining and less-often seen members of the Inhumans Royal Family: Gorgon (powerful fighter with hooves), Karnak (extremely perceptive monk), and Triton (fish man). We also mention Lockjaw because he deserves to be counted as part of the family.

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Inhumans: Once and Future Kings Vol 1 5: “Emancipation”

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Medusa, Triton, Karnak and Gorgon have a hard time fighting Pursuer. 

- Inhumans v1 #11, 1977

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Fantastic Four Annual #5, November 1967

Karnak pin-up. 

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Amazing Adventures #3, 1970

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i agree with whoever said lockjaw

Secret Invasion: Inhumans

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ok so. in lockjaw (2017), lockjaw is mentioned to be 30 years old

this same series ALSO says that lockjaw and his littermates were experimented on to ensure terrigen exposure prior to birth was safe.

as far as any if the comic seems to imply, black bolt is the oldest of his generation (or at least the second oldest, as gorgon's never really shown as a child and i cant find anything that references his age). since rynda is seemingly already pregnant with bb when lockjaw is born, bb is also likely 30 as of the lockjaw comic!

we also know that bb was allowed out of his prison room when he was 18 (or 19, according to some comics). royals lists maximus as being 16 around the time his parents died, giving him a 2-3 year age gap on bb.

we also know crystal is the youngest, though her gap between maximus has also been retconned a few times. in a women of marvel comic from 2010, she's described as being "too little" to play a game karnak's trying to teach her.

maximus is also explicitly said to be 14 in this, and karnak and medusa are both implied to be older than him here (or at the very least karnak is implied to be older), though their ages are not said. maximus is at least old enough to not be considered too young to play bak taga. im going to assume crystal is not yet a preteen in this, making her 2-5 years younger than maximus.

as mentioned above, there doesn't seem to be any clear indication of how old exactly gorgon is. he's older than crystal, and... that's about as specific as it gets. once and future kings has him working with the king while his cousins were missing, and he doesn't seem to be treated as a child during this though he is referred to as a "boy" several times (similar to how medusa is referred to as "the girl") so he's probably 17-18, likely a bit older than medusa but a bit younger than blackagar.

triton is also a bit difficult to track down, as his backstory has been altered a bit over the years. initial comics say he underwent terrigenesis at a year old, while once and future kings (the most recent comic i know of to reference his childhood), clearly shows him as much older than that. he and karnak seem to be close in age:

and there's nothing in this to retcon their mother azur died when triton was 14, which would clearly be after his terrigenesis. karnak could pass as somewhere between 9-12 here, and triton somewhere in the 12-14 range. the main problem is we don't really know *when* the child karnak and triton scenes happen in regards to everything else, other than it was before triton's terrigenesis and before agon and rynda died.

pairing with the wom comic, karnak is older than maximus, and pairing with general early comics lore that oafk references, triton is 18 during the main story, as that's when he started going out on scouting missions. since this comic takes place relatively recently after the death of rynda and agon (maybe a year after at the absolute most), blackagar has to still be 18/19, so triton can't be any older than 19 here, once again if we extend as much as possible. he's probably 18. karnak is subsequently younger than medusa (late teens), older than maximus (16, *maybe* 17), and so he's probably 16/17.

under the assumption time in 616 has been moving the same as in the real world since 2017 (which... obviously isnt true because comics but bear with me for a moment), lockjaw and bb are 36, triton is 35, gorgon is 34/35, medusa is somewhere between 33-35, karnak would be 33/34, maximus is 33/34, and crystal should be between 28-31.

the birth order seems to be blackagar, gorgon, triton, medusa, karnak, maximus, crystal!

though, once again, gorgon is almost completely shrouded in mystery when it comes to his age, and medusa/karnak/maximus are all potentially born the same year! really, the three of them could be only weeks apart for all we know. its very likely at least two of the three are born the same year (probably karnak and medusa, if i were to bet on it)

considering how comics time is always being adjusted, these are probably not totally accurate, but at least the general early 30s for most of the fam and late 20s for crystal is,,, probably correct for modern comics.

(on a side note: the kids/second gen's order is luna, ahura, alecto, petras, leer!) ((yeah, luna should be like 19 by now, ahura was 16 last we saw him (in 2018 iirc) and he's at *least* a year younger than her. giving the rest of the kids specific ages can be a different post bc oh boy))

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Literally anything could happen to the royals in inhuman, and I wouldn't care. Their insane ideas about superiority and that ridiculous caste system they implement is plenty of reason to dislike them or even despise them imo.

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Secret Warriors #2 (2017) Matthew Rosenberg Javier Garrón

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January 21, 2023

Happy 53 Birthday to Ken Leung. 

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Karnak #5 - “The Flaw In All Things V” (2016) pencil & ink by Roland Boschi color by Dan Brown