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\"\"<\/a>STORM vol 5 #11<\/strong>
\n“Thunder War Rises”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtists: Mario Santoro with CF Villa<\/strong>
\nColour artists: Fer Sifuentes-Sujo with Slex Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Well, that’s Storm on a hippo. Hippo enthusiasts should be warned that one only panel of this story features hippos, and they are riderless.<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-2.\u00a0<\/strong>Zeus convenes the meeting of storm gods.<\/em><\/p>\n

As we’ll see, the purpose of this meeting is for the storm gods of assorted pantheons to decide whether to align themselves with Storm or with Hadad. Of course, Storm herself has yet to take any particular interest in Hadad, but we clarify later on that the storm gods are aware of her possession by Eternity, and regard her as having been selected by Eternity as his champion whether she knows it or not.<\/p>\n

Hjem Sp\u00edti.<\/strong> Described as a “neutral realm for all pantheons”, this seems to be new – it’s not a pre-existing mythological term, either. Google Translate suggests that it’s Icelandic for “Sorry Home”, for whatever that may be worth.<\/p>\n

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Susanoo.<\/strong> The Shinto storm god, last seen in issue #7. He’s the guy with the hat in the final panel of page 2.<\/p>\n

Amadioha.<\/strong> He’s the storm god of the Igbo people from southeast Nigeria. This seems to be his first Marvel Universe reference.<\/p>\n

Sugaar.<\/strong> He’s a storm god of pre-Christian Basque mythology. Again, this is his first Marvel Universe reference.<\/p>\n

Beta Ray Bill.<\/strong> Representing the Norse gods in Thor’s absence following the end of\u00a0Immortal Thor<\/em> (which hasn’t hit Unlimited yet, but I gather leaves Thor living as a moral on Earth).<\/p>\n

Indra.<\/strong> The Hindu storm god, last seen in\u00a0Thor<\/em> #9 (2011). He’s the guy with the two tridents on page 2, as made clear on page 12.<\/p>\n

Ukko.<\/strong> The Finnish storm god. Believe it or not, this guy has several previous appearances. He was last seen in\u00a0Chaos War<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Seth.<\/strong> The Egyptian storm god, who’s been a fairly major\u00a0Thor<\/em> villain at times. Flashbacks aside, he was last seen in the 2009\u00a0Thor Annual<\/em>. He could be the giant serpent on page 2, though there’s also a Zulu thunder serpent, the Inkanyamba.<\/p>\n

Lei Gong.<\/strong> The Taoist thunder god. This is his first on panel appearance in the Marvel Universe, though he got a mention in the\u00a0Encyclopaedia Mythologica<\/em> Handbook one-shot. He’s fairly recognisable even without a previous appearance: he’s the guy with wings and a beak in the middle of the top tier.<\/p>\n

Mamarangan.<\/strong> The Aboriginal storm god, last seen in issue #7. He’s the monochrone guy on the left hand side of the final panel on page 2.<\/p>\n

Zeus.<\/strong> Well, he’s Zeus, obviously. He’s somehow managed to get resurrected off panel since his recent appearances in\u00a0Immortal Thor<\/em>, as the narration acknowledges.<\/p>\n

Unnamed among the gods on page 2 is\u00a0Tl\u00e1loc<\/strong>, the Aztec storm god, sitting in the lower left seat – he’s another god with a previous mention in\u00a0Encyclopaedia Mythologica<\/em> making his first actual appearance.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Splash page.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Bishop defends Galactus from the<\/em> FBI.<\/p>\n

Last issue, the FBI’s attempt to reclaim Jaden (who was being sheltered by Bishop) got as far as taking out Manifold and Maggott before Galactus crashed to earth.<\/p>\n

Agents \u00c9tienne and Fabiyi are seen unconscious in page 4 panel 3. The guy with his brain in a tank in place of a head (next to Galactus’s knee) has also shown up in previous issues.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-10. <\/strong>Storm faces Infinity, and is talked down by Galactus and Jaden.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also last issue, Infinity – Eternity’s sister character – showed up demanding to know what had happened to him. She seemed to assume that Storm had somehow imprisoned Eternity, rather than being possessed by him. Storm responds with a speech claiming to be a goddess. She backs up that claim by reference to her magical heritage, but since she ultimately relies on the claim that “nothing, no one controls me”, presumably she doesn’t mean that she’s a literal goddess. Of course, the whole current storyline involves her being possessed by Eternity against her will.<\/p>\n

While all this is going on, Gateway quietly gathers up the bodies of Maggott and Manifold, who we’ll see again on page 16.<\/p>\n

“Descendent of Ashake”.<\/strong> The ancestor sorceress first seen in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em> #32.<\/p>\n

“I share blood with Agamotto, the first Sorcerer Supreme.”<\/strong> The claim that Ashake’s line descends ultimately from Agamotto seems to have originated in issue #2 of this series. That issue also cites the Ashake and Agamotto connections back to back, but in the context of berating Storm for not developing her magical heritage.<\/p>\n

“My roots run deep – far back to Oshtur, the Elder God.”<\/strong> Oshtur is a sort of proto-Gaea character who gets namechecked by Marvel Universe magicians more than she actually appears. A couple of stories claim her to be the mother of Agamotto, so Storm’s claim here is simply an extrapolation of things that have been said before.<\/p>\n

Page 8 panel 1-2 is basically just recapping what Storm was telling Manifold about her possession by Eternity in issue #9.<\/p>\n

“I chose 2000 miles of treacherous uncertainty rather than remain a pickpocket.”<\/strong> This is a bit dubious. Storm hasn’t previously had any particular problem with her back story as a child thief. The first version of her origin story, in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #102, simply says that “some inner need began pulling [her] south”.<\/p>\n

“Is this the ache Death and Oblivion have endured for all these eons?”<\/strong> Issue #5 has extended flashbacks about the separation of Death and Oblivion.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-15.\u00a0<\/strong>The thunder gods vote to side with Hadad, and get killed anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yamata No Orochi.<\/strong> This is indeed a legend, and the dragon gets its first on panel appearance here.<\/p>\n

Typhon.<\/strong> Typhon\u00a0has<\/em> shown up occasionally in the Marvel Universe – he was the villain in\u00a0Avengers<\/em> #49 (1968).<\/p>\n

Vritra.<\/strong> He’s a Hindu serpent demon and he represents drought. This is his first Marvel Universe appearance.<\/p>\n

“Many of us have wrestled with leviathans…”<\/strong> Beta Ray Bill is basically making an argument that storm gods have common mythologies that makes them protectors of the universe.<\/p>\n

“Why, then, did Eternity pass us over…?”<\/strong> The storm gods are apparently throwing a tantrum about Eternity choosing a mortal host in preference to one of them, and have rather bizarrely decided that the way forward is to reboot the universe – which is what they take Hadad to be doing.<\/p>\n

“We exerted pressure and heat…”<\/strong> The idea seems to be that the thunder gods who attacked Storm in issue #7 were attempting (sincerely or otherwise) to get Storm ready for the war with Hadad, and were unimpressed with what they saw.<\/p>\n

Black<\/strong> Winters.\u00a0<\/strong>We’ve seen these things threatening Galactus in previous issues, on Hadad’s behalf. They seem to have as little trouble with the storm gods as the FBI did with Maggott and Manifold (all of which, again, points strongly to a reset button coming).<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-17.<\/strong> The Night and Daye Hospital deals with Maggott and<\/em> Manifold.<\/p>\n

Maggott is evidently dead. Manifold, despite being bisected, is apparently alive, since that’s presumably who the doctors are operating on.<\/p>\n

We saw this hospital before in issue #2.<\/p>\n

Storm’s apology for not pursuing her “studies with Doctor Voodoo” rather overstates the degree to which she studied anything<\/em> magical with him. But the basic point of her failing to develop her magical heritage has been a repeated theme throughout this series.<\/p>\n

Gateway very rarely speaks, but he’s done it before, and does so here.<\/p>\n

PAGE 18.\u00a0<\/strong>Eternity approaches the One Above All.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “House of Ideas” is often a meta reference to Marvel itself as the creator of its universe, with the One Above All being a collective personification of the creators – here, however, they’re serving as a non-denominational “real” God.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-20.\u00a0<\/strong>Galactus briefs Storm.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve only got one more issue of this story, so Galactus and the Silver Surfer Soot are going to help Infinity and Quasar hold off the Black Winters while Storm takes on Hadad.<\/p>\n

“Oblivion is no more.”<\/strong> Oblivion was killed by Hadad in issue #9.<\/p>\n

“Eternity has abandoned our universe.”<\/strong> Incorrect, as we saw in the previous page – but this is what the Surfer things.<\/p>\n

Krakoa.<\/strong> A brief cutaway shows Phoenix defending New Krakoa from Hadad’s Black Winters in the White Hot Room. Judging from interviews, this is a vestige of Ayodele’s original pitch for this storyline to be a crossover with Phoenix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Land of Couldn’t-Be-Shouldn’t-Be.<\/strong> First introduced in the Slott\/Allred\u00a0Silver Surfer<\/em> run in 2014, this is a sort of void of endless possibilities outside the universe proper. The Never Queen also comes from that story, and her status as a patron of the Scarlet Witch comes from Steve Orlando’s\u00a0Scarlet Witch<\/em> run.<\/p>\n

Quasar.<\/strong> Only seen vaguely and from a distance, but this seems to be Wendell Vaughan, the original Quasar, who was brought back into circulation in Al Ewing’s\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> run in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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