Adam Roderick, having gone through Terrigenesis gained the ability to influence his surroundings. When finding the young man's "abductors", Karnak finds out they worship him as a messiah. How can something that has no meaning, mean so much to a person?įor Karnak, it's a state that he comes into conflict with when he needs to find a missing Inhuman. Therein lies the contradiction with nihilism, Kyoto School professor Keiji Nishitani describes this as "impersonally personal". The object has no meaning yet it defies the chaotic nature of the universe and became structurally perfect. It's one of the reasons he keeps a naturally made crystalline cube at his work place. Anything that seems out of place sets him off. Karnak believes that people and the lives they lead have no meaning. Nihility is the absence of any meaningful or necessary relationship between people and the world. This will be an exciting return to Marvel for him, even if his run only lasts six issues.Warren Ellis uses speculative realism and where they intersect with teachings around nihilism and pessimism. From the cover image of the first issue we can expect a similarly gritty run that will take an almost cyberpunk view of things, which is a great use of Ellis. In line with Marvel’s new focus on Inhumans, Karnak is a martial-arts focused Inhuman that has seen pop ups in various series like Mutant X and the nineties CD-Marvel crossover company Amalgam. Here they were able to finish what Ellis had begun, and the entire run can be seen with the kind of cohesion you just normally won’t get from Marvel books that have multiple writers at the helm.Īs we got the recent announcement of forty-five new titles coming from Marvel after Secret Wars runs its course, we see again that Ellis is taking the reigns of a lesser-known Marvel character. This is exactly what happened with his more recent six issue arc on Moon Knight, that created a design-heavy dark mood piece that was picked up by Brian Wood for the second arc and Colin Bunn for the third.
Warren Ellis has been known, beyond his genre-bending sci-fi classics, to take a Big Two character and redefine it in a way that later creators can use as their model.
0 kommentar(er)
