This book won't likely impress anyone who isn't already enamored with Marvel Comics superheroes.On one hand, it's beautiful and vivid and even a bit haunting.But it's also somehow hollow.Consider- Everything is at stake for these characters: their home, their culture, even their lives. And yet it's all handled with such cold, distant narration that it's impossible, as a reader, to care.Little surprise, then, that in a collection of twelve dramatic, explosion-filled issues, the most striking and memorable moment is a quiet scene halfway through in which a normally unreadable character collapses to his knees at the side of his giant dog and hugs him.It's among the few moments of real weakness, conflict or feeling in the entire ponderous volume.The artwork usually manages to be delicate and intimate, but even the powerful illustrations can't compensate for a lifeless script.The Inhumans ultimately serves as a long, rich, vivid description of nothing.