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\"\"<\/a>ROGUE STORM #1<\/strong>
\n“Deicide”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtist: Roland Boschi<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Neeraj Menon<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:\u00a0<\/strong>A split image of Storm and Rogue, with Storm in what I’m guessing is a savannah, and Rogue in what looks like the Arctic but… well, we’ll come to that. Rogue is wearing the knuckledusters that Storm gives her in flashback during the story.<\/p>\n

This is the stand-in book for\u00a0Storm<\/em> during “Age of Revelation”.<\/p>\n

PAGE 1. <\/strong>Montage: “Five years into the Age of Revelation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The main time frame for “Age of Revelation” is ten years, so this is effectively a flashback.<\/p>\n

The first panel shows a shattered Mjolnir in orbit, presumably to do with the fate of Thor in this timeline. We don’t know yet what might have happened to him.<\/p>\n

The second panel is captioned as the Sahara Desert, but the art shows a snowy wasteland. We’re told later in the issue that Storm has frozen the desert.<\/p>\n

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The third panel shows the ruins of Atlanta, where Storm is based in her present day series.<\/p>\n

The fourth panel shows the Amazon Rainforest on fire, for reasons to be revealed.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-3. <\/strong>The Sahara Desert.<\/em><\/p>\n

This shows four giant robot things guarding a sort of pyramid with Storm shackled inside. The next scene establishes that this is actually her base, and that the robots are protecting her from interruption while she works on what they understand to be a scheme to save the world: “She alone can halt the slow advance of armageddon.” They call her “the Mother”.<\/p>\n

Later in the issue, these robots are identified as\u00a0the Storm Engines<\/strong>. The term “Storm Engine” was used in the regular series to describe the harnessed alien engine from\u00a0Storm\u00a0<\/em>#1 that was eventually used to power the Storm Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

The narrator tells us that Storm suddenly went mad one day, and has to be contained or even killed. The narrator isn’t identified (and certainly isn’t Rogue, because he refers to her in the third person later in the issue). It may just be a third person narrator doing an unusual degree of thinking aloud.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.\u00a0<\/strong>Symbolic splash page.<\/em><\/p>\n

As with regular issues of\u00a0Storm<\/em>, this has a symbolic splash page which isn’t part of the story. This one shows what seems to be the bleached bones of a creature in the desert, and the remnants of a human skeleton with a skull wearing Storm’s headdress.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5 to PAGE 12 PANEL 1.\u00a0<\/strong>X-Force attack Storm’s ice desert base.<\/em><\/p>\n

This group identifies itself as\u00a0“the Uncanny X-Force” –\u00a0Uncanny X-Force<\/em> was the title of two volumes of\u00a0X-Force<\/em>, the latest being in 2014. They’re working on the basis that Storm has gone mad and threatens the world, and so they’re simply here to stop her. The members of this group are:<\/p>\n