Teenager Adam Roderick underwent “Terrigenesis” thanks to a Marvel MacGuffin of the month in which the Terrigen mists, which create Inhumans, were on the loose. The plot involves SHIELD, via Agent Coulson, enlisting Karnak’s help to bring an abducted Inhuman home. You may not know who Karnak is now, but you will when Warren Ellis (MOON KNIGHT, PLANETARY) and Gerardo Zaffi no are done with. In those six issues, Ellis and company manage to make “the most miserable idea you ever heard in your life” highly entertaining. Frankly, I probably could’ve got 20 years out of that. Everything he looks at is somehow wrong, and he knows he can break it by touching it. How is that immediately not the most miserable idea you ever heard in your life? He can experience no pleasure because he can see the flaw in everything. This is a guy, his one power and his one job is to find the flaw in anything. It’s the perfect example of finding that thing in a piece of old creative IP that you can care about. I had a fine old time playing around with existentialist philosophy and neo-nihilism and what have you for six issues. Ellis, in conversation with Kieron Gillen at 2018’s Thought Bubble, said of this series,
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