One of Storm’s most beloved arcs is the period in the 1980s when she loses her powers. It gives us the brilliant “Lifedeath” by Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith. She fights Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men and wins. She sticks it to enemies like Fenris and the Murder Grandpas. She proves herself as a hand-to-hand combatant, and an ally, all without casting a single bolt of lightning.
Forty years later, Storm is a goddess. Not just worshipped like one, as she was when we first met her, but an actual storm goddess, powered by the abstract concept of Eternity in his war against Oblivion.
That’s one hell of a power creep.
It’s interesting that the two most popular, most longstanding X-women, Storm and Jean Grey, have spent much of the past year and change as cosmic-level powers. Their powers are so great, it’d be downright silly to put them on a team book with characters who can walk through walls or charge playing cards or shoot eye lasers.
Yet that’s how most people know them, as the teammates of those lesser-powered beings.
One wonders what it will take, story wise, to bring these two great beings back down to Earth, to play with their friends Scott and Logan and Kurt and Anna Marie again.
Maybe it will take … an Age of Doug?
Check out our exclusive preview of Storm #12, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our coverage of Storm #11, click here.
W: Murewa Ayodele | A: Mario Santoro | CA: Mateus Manhanini
THUNDER WAR ENDS! Everything ends. Our universe is no exception. However, the only way the universe ends is over STORM’s dead body. So be it.
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