I am so
stoked for this series. Storm is one of my favourite characters, she
has such a deep and rich history to draw on and so, with all respects
to Ta-Nehisi Coates
#1: a
twelfth issue
Ah, yes,
Ta-Nehisi Coates spinning off a title from his Black Panther run, we
all know how well that usually goes, don't we? I admit, I didn't
bother with World of Wakanda
but I did my part for Black Panther & The Crew.
I just hope that this issue can somehow find the audience it needs to
keep going because just based on Storm's appearances in Coates' other
work he has so many ideas for her that it would be a crime for this
series to get the “one arc and then chopped” treatment.
Also
on this subject...
#2:
bitch ass manbabies to shut the hell up
Attention,
cretins! This is Storm we're talking about here: she's not a new
character and she's not taking a precious bloody name away from any
fictional white men you might be emotionally invested in. Could you
please, just this one, shut the bloody hell up about “forced
diversity” with this one. Go back to crying into your cornflakes
about how the Hulk is now an Asian kid and/or a woman.
We
cool? Moving on.
#3:
Cairo
One
of the really interesting parts of Black Panther & The
Crew was exploring Storm's
relationship with Harlem, her parents' home that she only experienced
as an adult. The previous Storm ongoing had a lot to say about her
relationship to Kenya (if I'm wrong about it being Kenya, I
apologise, I remember it being Kenya that she lived in between Cairo
and meeting the X-Men). One part of her life that hasn't been touched
on in some time is her childhood on the streets of Cairo where she
was a pickpocket.
#4:
The Further Adventures Of The Crew
A
man can dream. But if not the whole tea, then maybe just...
#5:
Misty Knight
I
was wrong, it turns out. When I was reviewing Black Panther & The
Crew I completely forgot that
Misty and Storm know each other really, really well. Back in the
olden days of Chris Claremont's original run, Misty was Jean Grey's
roommate in New York city and so she and Storm interacted quite a
lot. This throws that relationship I enjoyed so much in The
Crew in a whole new light.
#6:
Special Agent Ororo Munroe, FBI
I
am sure this was brought up recently in some X-title or other but
once upon a time, in a much later Claremont run, Storm and several
other X-Men were deputised to the FBI as the XSE (yes, it was really
called that, Xavier's Security Enforcement). She is, or was, a
legitimate agent of the government. Food for thought.
#7:
Doom
So
there was this very odd arc in the Claremont days where Doom captured
the X-Men and subjected them to all sorts of trials and tortures but
in the end he lets them go in exchange for a dinner date with Storm.
It sounds like I'm making this up but I swear its true. There was a
similar situation with Dracula.
#8:
Bruno from Ms. Marvel
He's
in Wakanda, Storm spends a lot of time in Wakanda and what's more
Storm is a teacher so she could easily be brought in to lecture at
his polytechnic on mutant rights or agriculture or something. This is
the most fannish idea on the list and that's why its last, a little
whimsy to go out on, but just think about how cool it would be.
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