Uncanny Inhumans: The Quiet Room Review

Finished reading Uncanny Inhumans: The Quiet Room, writer Charles Soule continues the series by bringing in the Quiet Room into the continuity of the main Marvel universe which comes with new and existing characters to be further developed. The book opens up with Medusa, her son Ahura and Iso in Grand Central Station which is the home to Black Bolt's own establishment, the Quite Room. As Medusa has come to meet with her estranged husband to talk about the mysterious skyscrapers that have appeared around the world and to drop Ahura off to see his father. After Ahura has been given the tour of the place by Flagman a fight between two professional fighters breaks out while the Mad Thinker and the Leader try to out smart each other with a nuclear weapon along with a device with the ability to stop Inhuman power being stolen which leads to Medusa putting her best man on the case, investigator Frank McGee. The second story of the book sees Medusa and Johnny Storm being trapped under a falling apartment building after saving its residents which leads to Medusa to bring up the conversation about the twos relationship, until they are saved by Medusa's sister and Johnny's ex-girlfriend Crystal. However before Crystal can process what's happening the three of them end up getting kidnapped by aliens. The final story continues from the first half of the book as Reader is still searching for his dog that is now host to the inhuman Capo. Only for Reader to find himself caught in a trap and surrounded by armed men. Overall this was a great as it takes a step back from the large world ending story from the last book in order to focus more on character building. The reveal of how Medusa and Johnny got together feels very organic in the way it can be compared to real life relationships. While the story cantering around Reader is amazing as not only does his origin get reveal through his inner monologue and the way the he uses his powers to get out of the situation he finds himself in is brilliant. The art throughout the book is great from Brandon Peterson's photorealistic style along with colourist Java Tartaglia n the first half of the book makes the Quiet Room feel like it could easily exist within the real world while the more non human like people look very realistic. While Kev Walker's art in the later half of the book works extremely for the emotional scenes between Medusa and Johnny while also bringing to life some great alien and creature designs. 8/10.