This Dike Ruan variant cover to February’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 reminds us of a wonderful essay Jude Jones wrote last year about the importance of Ororo’s natural hair texture.
“Storm may not be a queen anymore, but she still wears a crown upon her head,” Jude wrote at the time in response to a comment made by then-incoming X-Men editor Tom Brevoort. “How much better the world would be if her crown matched the crown naturally laid on that of her fans.”
One of the best parts of Russell Dauterman’s Krakoa-era redesign of Storm is giving her hair that both looks naturally textured and resembles the flowing nature of a cloud. It is at once the perfect encapsulation of her identity as a Black woman and as an omega-level mutant.
Ruan’s variant cover goes one step further to play with her hair as negative space upon which to lay the trade dress.
Check out Ruan’s variant cover to Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1, out Feb. 4, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
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W: Murewa Ayodele | A: Federica Mancin | Main cover: R.B. Silva | Variant cover: Dike Ruan
THE WAR ABOVE ALL… …the most dangerous war in existence – thunders louder and closer. As the cosmos brace for annihilation, STORM, unaware of the coming threat, turns her gaze inward – to her home – to EARTH. The Earth’s Mightiest Mutant becomes Earth’s protector once more…in a daring new chapter of her life. In this new beginning, STORM shares a Japanese tea ceremony with an enemy and visits France for a masquerade with monsters. However, it all ends in a gut-wrenching funeral…for in this new era of ORORO MUNROE, brought to you by Murewa Ayodele (I AM IRON MAN, STORM, ROGUE STORM) and Federica Mancin (EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN, MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN), MISTRESS DEATH is never far behind. With DEATH stalking the shadows, expect bloodshed, brutality, barbarism and bold emotions in the brand-new STORM: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANT.
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