{"id":10551,"date":"2024-11-23T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2024-11-23T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:19:52","slug":"storm-2-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10551","title":{"rendered":"Storm #2 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>STORM vol 5 #2<\/strong>
\n“Death by Voodoo”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtist: Lucas Werneck<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Alex Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

STORM:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm is still sick from her exposure to radiation in the previous issue; she’s coughing up blood and losing some of her hair. Nonetheless, she has no trouble taking down a group of pirates off the coast of Nigeria. the captain isn’t especially grateful. She wears a white costume for this, rather than the black one from last issue, so apparently she’s going to be cycling through the wardrobe.<\/p>\n

For treatment, Storm heads to the Night and Daye Hospital for the Extramundane in Arkansas (see below), which she’s apparently learned about from the Avengers. The X-Men are apparently the only major superhero group not to contribute to this facility, although they’ve evidently never used it either. Still, Storm decides she ought to be making a contribution and hands over what she describes as a ruby that belonged to her mother. If this is meant to be the ruby from her 1970s costume, then that’s a continuity error, because X-Men<\/em> vol 2 #60 already established that she stole that jewel from Candra. But maybe she just has two really big rubies lying around. Anyway, Storm learns that she has “radiation syndrome” which is going to kill her in six hours, and is packed off to Dr Voodoo for help.<\/p>\n

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A montage of Storm going about her business at the Storm Sanctuary seems to confirm that it’s basically an animal sanctuary.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Night and Daye Hospital for the Extramundane<\/strong> is new, but has apparently been operating in the background since the days of Force Works (whose series was cancelled in 1996). The hospital is run by a Dr Daye<\/strong>, who says that he works in tandem with Night Nurse; we only see her in a photograph in this issue, but she’s often shown running a clinic for superhumans in New York. Daye is a mutant with diagnosis powers, but he has a grudge against the X-Men for failing to fund his hospital, even though they’ve never used it and Storm seems to know nothing about it. Daye complains about the X-Men conquering death and retreating to Krakoa, but that would be many, many years after the hospital was set up (in publication terms), and can’t really explain the X-Men’s lack of involvement with the facility up to then. According to Daye, he did come to Krakoa, but didn’t stick around because Krakoan resurrection made him unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Dr Voodoo<\/strong> is normally associated with the Strange Academy<\/em> cast these days, but according to Daye he’s currently “on sabbatical”. He’s certainly in Haiti rather than New Orleans.<\/p>\n

OTHER REFERENCES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 10 panel 1: “We’ve seen the Oklahoma<\/strong> news.” <\/strong>The mutant kid who accidentally blew up a power plant in the previous issue.<\/p>\n

Page 18 panel 4: <\/strong>The characters in Daye’s photo, from left to right, are the Invisible Woman, Mr Fantastic, Night Nurse, Blue Marvel, Iron man, Captain Marvel, Dr Daye, a smiling guy in a suit who I think is probably Amadeus Cho, Dr Strange, Shuri, Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) and Moon Knight.<\/p>\n

Page 23 panel 3: “You! Descendant of Ashake.”<\/strong> Ashake is an ancient Egyptian sorceress who looks suspiciously like Storm, and who first appeared in New Mutants<\/em> #32. The Official Handbook<\/em> also claims Storm as the descendent of a second Ashake, an African empress who appeared in a Chris Claremont \/ John Bolton story in Epic Illustrated<\/em> #12 (1982).<\/p>\n

Page 23 panel 4: “You share blood with Agamatto, the first Sorcerer Supreme.”<\/strong> Agamotto, best known for his eponymous Eye of Agamotto artefact, is indeed the first Sorcerer Supreme; as an on-panel character, he’s possibly more familiar from Jason Aaron’s “Avengers 1 million BC” team, where he’s the Dr Strange analogue. As far as I’m aware, the suggestion that Storm is descended from Agamotto is new; but the idea that she has some sort of magical descent is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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