![]() ![]() He lives in a tower where he leads a group of monks the resulting character plays out like an unpredictable philosopher cast into a shared superhero-dominated universe. His idea of compassion comes across in statements such as, “I can comprehend the relative difficulty of your lives,” said to the parents of a kidnapped child. As Warren Ellis writes him in the first issue of this new series, he’s less a righteous figure battling evil and more an aloof antihero, impossible to read and potentially lethal to those who oppose him. Karnak harbors the ability to find a weak point in anyone or thing once he has found that flaw, he prods it until the entity it exists within breaks. He’s a figure of mystery and menace who represents a blend of the intellectual and visceral. Karnak has, historically, been an ominous supporting character in many a storyline involving the cult Kirby superhero group, the Inhumans. To say that the title character and protagonist of Karnak was a left-field choice to headline his own book would be an understatement. ![]()
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