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

\"\"<\/a>STORM vol 5 #6<\/strong>
\n“X-Manhunt, part 3: Thundercloud”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtist: Luciano Vecchio<\/strong>
\nColour artists: Alex Guimar\u00e3es & Rachelle Rosenberg<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is part 3 of the “X-Manhunt” crossover. We skipped issue #5, because it came out in a massively overloaded week.<\/p>\n

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

And since we skipped last issue, a recap might be useful. In issue #1, Storm contracted radiation poisoning. In issue #3, she’s cured by the evil spirit E\u00e9g\u00fan in exchange for her agreeing to refrain from using her powers for a week. In issue #4, she breaks that deal to save an innocent from Dr Doom, and is immediately struck dead. In issue #5, she is resurrected by Eternity, and becomes his host. (It wasn’t actually clearly stated in the previous issue that her cosmic persona was Eternity, but this issue clarifies it by referring in passing to Oblivion as “my brother”.) For most of the previous issue, Eternity speaks through Storm and talks about her as if she’s a host body with some residual influence on what he’s doing. In this issue she’s just back to normal, until page 15 when she starts talking in the white-on-blue speech balloons from the previous issue, for no terribly obvious reason.<\/p>\n

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When Professor X comes to her for (ahem) sanctuary, her immediate response is to insist that she can’t help him escape justice now that she’s a “registered hero in numerous countries”. She does offer to get him transferred to a nicer prison. She believes that if she’s found to have revoked such a major criminal, then “I will have all my licences and diplomatic immunity revoked”. Um, isn’t One World Under Doom<\/em> underway right now? It was last chapter. And diplomatic immunity? Who’s she representing?<\/p>\n

Anyway, Professor X rightly points out that this sort of thing has never bothered her in the past, so maybe we should take it as a pretext for not being more helpful. After all, she also claims that she’s already shopped him to the Avengers, but he tells her that she’s lying. Ultimately, she’s persuaded to help him in his hazily defined mission, and fights to defend him from the X-Men. Once she’s zapped by Cyclops, Eternity takes over as the controlling personality.<\/p>\n

Her “Storm Sanctuary” can transform into a flying battleship called Thundercloud. God knows who built this thing, because Storm has never been an engineer. It’s powered by something that Beast calls “the Storm Engine” – this seems to be the alien that was powering the power plant from issue #1. It looks awfully humanoid for something that Storm would be comfortable using as a glorified battery, but okay.<\/p>\n

GUEST STARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor X. <\/strong>He claims that he wants Storm’s help in carrying out one final resurrection. We don’t find out what exactly that means, but apparently it involves the abandoned site of Utopia in San Francisco, so presumably we’ll learn more in the next chapter. Other than some warnings from Cyclops about his manipulativeness, Professor X comes across as basically normal in this issue – though since he was flagrantly manipulating Anole and Ms Marvel in the NYX<\/em> chapter, it’s certainly possible that he has ulterior motives in anything that he’s tellign Professor X. As in\u00a0NYX<\/em>, he seems entirely sane, with none of the hallucinations from the Uncanny<\/em> chapter.<\/p>\n

The X-Men.<\/strong> Cyclops, Temper, Psylocke, Juggernaut, Kid Omega, Magik <\/strong>and Beast<\/strong> show up to recapture Professor X. Cyclops’ argument here is that Xavier committed atrocities when he allied with Orchis during “Fall of X” and that normal humans would be legitimately outraged if mutants colluded in helping him escape justice for it. In other words, he believes that Professor X needs to be in jail as a gesture of accountability from mutantkind and to avoid blowback on other mutants – which is exactly the logic that Professor X gave for turning himself in at the end of the Krakoan era, and begs the question of whether Cyclops came to this view independently.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, when Juggernaut thinks that Cyclops has been badly injured, he rips Maggott’s arm off, apparently intending to use it as a club. Aside from this being ludicrously out of character – even at the height of his villainy, the Juggernaut didn’t go in for maiming people – it doesn’t even make sense as a weapon. He’s already the Juggernaut, how is he going to do any greater damage by whacking an opponent with a glorified joint of meat? Let’s be really generous<\/em> and assume that the Juggernaut wildly misjudged Maggott’s resilience and, in this one panel, doesn’t realise what he’s done.<\/p>\n

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

Maggott.<\/strong> He’s taken up residence at the Storm Sanctuary, so apparently that’s who’s been feeding the hippos when Storm was away. We last saw him in NYX<\/em> #3, where he seemed to be one of the Morlocks. He’s willing to fight alongside Professor X and Storm against the X-Men though we don’t get any particular rationale from him. When Juggernaut tears his arm off, Storm\/Eternity heals him using the compressed essence of E\u00e9g\u00fan (which they did indeed preserve in this form last issue) and christens him “my Omega Maggott”. We don’t see any more of him in the issue that might shed light on what this means in practice.<\/p>\n

Eternity.<\/strong> Storm makes no mention of him at all until she gets zapped by Cyclops and he takes over her body – it’s not clear whether he takes control because she’s in trouble or if it’s simply that she’s been knocked out cold. At least when Eternity is in control, Storm seems to have more powerful weather control and is somehow able to make knives with a motif similar to her headdress fall from the sky. Eternity seems to regard the resurrected Maggott as “his” in some sense.<\/p>\n

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

Page 3: If you’re reading an X-Men comic you probably know who the Asgardians and the Olympians are. The Orishas are from the Yoruba religion of West Africa, Chaac is the Mayan thunder god, and the Amatsukami are from Japanese mythology.<\/p>\n

Page 9: Graymalkin has featured prominently in both X-Men<\/em> books. The Cube was the superhuman prison introduced in Grant Morrison’s\u00a0Marvel Boy<\/em> miniseries; it hasn’t been seen in a present day story for over a decade, but it has made appearances in the MCU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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