{"id":10708,"date":"2025-01-16T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10708"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:37:00","slug":"storm-4-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10708","title":{"rendered":"Storm #4 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>STORM vol 5 #4<\/strong>
\n“Flame in the Wind”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtist: Lucas Werneck<\/strong>
\nColour artists: Alex Guimar\u00e3es & Fer Sifuentes-Sujo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

She dresses up for her dinner with Dr Doom, in the dress that she borrowed from Rogue last issue – which might explain why it’s in Rogue’s signature colour of green. Apparently Rogue and Storm are exactly the same size, or close enough that the dress can be really quickly altered. (It’s hard to imagine Rogue getting much use out of this ballgown, but if she owns one at all then fair enough, she’ll probably have it at Haven at the moment.)<\/p>\n

A flashback shows a five year old Ororo eating her father’s gumbo and loving it. Young Ororo is remarkably precocious, to the point where it seems that it has to be a plot point – her father does remark on it, and she replies “Well, I’ve lived a long life.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Her deal with E\u00e9g\u00fan, which requires her not to use her mutant powers for a week, works a little oddly: she can<\/em> use her powers whenever she wants, but until she makes that choice, she’s physically a non-mutant. As such, she reacts badly to a dessert “tailor-made for mutant taste buds”.<\/p>\n

She listens politely to Doom’s monologue over dinner, until he decides to execute the chef, at which points she tries to save the poor guy without using her powers. Having crossed that line, she starts answering back to Doom’s arguments, and explaining why she doesn’t buy him as a mutant ally. When Doom magically restrains her, she uses her powers, breaks the deal, and drops dead.<\/p>\n

In the afterlife, Ororo is briefly but blissfully reunited with her father but, conspicuously, not her mother. She appears as a child for a few panels before being returned to life by Eternity as “my cosmic storm.”<\/p>\n

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

Eternity.<\/strong> We saw Eternity at the end of issue #1, where he declared that he had found Storm worthy of him. He resurrects her with apparent cosmic power.<\/p>\n

David Munroe.<\/strong> Storm’s father doesn’t actually get named in this story, but his name is long established. His gumbo recipe is apparently magnificent. He’s very proud of his daughter.<\/p>\n

Curiously, he shows up alone in the afterlife to greet Ororo when she’s briefly dead, which begs the question of where Ororo’s mother N’Dar\u00e9 is. Both David and N’Dar\u00e9 were supposed to have died in the same bombing first shown in X-Men<\/em> #102, and both were briefly raised from the dead in X-Men:<\/em> Gold<\/em> #33-35. David talks as if N’Dar\u00e9 did indeed die as established, but doesn’t explain where she is, despite Storm asking. He seems to know that she won’t be there long, to be fair, so maybe he just doesn’t have time. At any rate, N’Dar\u00e9’s absence is clearly a plot point.<\/p>\n

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

Doctor Doom.<\/strong> In an apparent attempt to impress Storm, he’s found out her father’s gumbo recipe, presumably using magic. It’s not entirely clear whether the schtick with the mutant-specific dessert is another attempt to impress her, or a genuine test, or a stunt based on something he already knows via magic.<\/p>\n

Doom’s pitch to Storm is that he’s come to admire the way that mutantkind continues to strive for the stars despite their many setbacks, and that he wants to make mutants “Doom’s people”, under his protection. He doesn’t seem to be under the impression that Storm can make deals with him – rather, he offers to restore her powers and invites her to be his “mutant ambassador”.<\/p>\n

E\u00e9g\u00fan.<\/strong> He appears as a weird bird thing as soon as Storm breaks her deal by using her powers, and kills her. Then he declares his intention to destroy the planet and attacks Dr Doom – who, as Sorcerer Supreme, seems to be putting up a respectable fight. The issue seems to end with the cosmic-powered Storm impaling him with… lightning rods, I guess?<\/p>\n

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

Page 2.<\/strong> This and the opening line of narration on page 3 are a straight recap of issues #1-3.<\/p>\n

Page 4.<\/strong> So after two pages of recap, we get a symbolic splash page with the story title and full credits… immediately followed by a recap page with title and full credits. Some of this is redundant, surely?<\/p>\n

Page 16 panel 2: “Where were your virtue and solidarity when Orchis murdered my people?”<\/strong> This is arguably a little unfair – Dr Doom did<\/em> protect Latverian mutants from Orchis and did ultimately align himself with the X-Men against them. But he could have done more.<\/p>\n

“Where were they when you attacked me and the Avengers in the Afghan desert?”<\/strong> Avengers<\/em> #19.<\/p>\n

Page 22 panel 5: “Hadari Yao”. <\/strong>Cloud walker, in Wakandan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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