{"id":12050,"date":"2026-06-06T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:57:43","slug":"storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12050","title":{"rendered":"Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>STORM: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANT #5<\/strong>
\n“Reunited”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Murewa Ayodele<\/strong>
\nArtist: Federica Mancin<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Java Tartaglia<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> That’s Storm in a swamp going to commune with “the ageless one”, in the opening scene.<\/p>\n

This is the final issue of\u00a0Storm: Earth’s Mighiest Mutant<\/em>, though the complete run is 17 issues, as it’s essentially the same series as\u00a0Storm<\/em> vol 5. If you count the “Age of Revelation” tie-in\u00a0Rogue Storm<\/em>, it’s a 20-issue run.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to do conventional annotations for this, since it shows every signs of being a guillotine cancellation where writer Murewa Ayodele has chosen to focus on resolving one key theme and leaving it at that.<\/p>\n

In the previous issue, an alternate version of N’Dar\u00e9 banished Ororo to Earth-61391. That issue ends with a very abbreviated scene of Storm being rescued from local Sentinels by Furana, her daughter from that timeline. By the start of this issue, Storm is off in a swamp somewhere, hoping to commune with “the ageless one” in the hope of finding a way back home. This is presumably the same swamp where Storm landed in the previous issue; perhaps it’s the local version of the Nexus of All Realities (which is in a Florida swamp in the main Marvel Universe).<\/p>\n

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The “ageless one” turns out to be Eternity, apparently the version from the Marvel Universe (or at least one who’s common to all timelines). This issue largely consists of Eternity arguing that Storm’s own actions are responsible for bringing disaster on her world and others, and that she needs to reunite with him in order to set things right. Storm then rejects Eternity anyway, finds another way back to Earth (by borrowing a magical gem from Furana), and makes it back home with one page to go before the series ends.<\/p>\n

So let’s run through the various plot points from the series that Storm and Eternity focus on. In Storm <\/em>#10, Storm imprisoned Sango. Eternity argues that Storm should have killed Sango instead of showing mercy to him by imprisoning him in a pocket dimension. (Storm was still serving as Eternity’s host at this point.) Eternity doesn’t make a particularly convincing case for this being a mistake. His basic contention is that it made no difference to Sango’s realm whether he was dead or imprisoned, because it left the realm unprotected from the forces of Death anyway. Not unreasonably, Storm argues that if anything, imprisoning him has saved his life. (A brief scene of Sango shows him sensing the apparent demise of his people at the hands of Death’s forced, and assuming that Storm has something to do with this.)<\/p>\n

In Storm <\/em>#11, the FBI kill Maggott. Eternity argues that by failing to obliterate them in revenge, Storm has merely encouraged them to keep trying. While Eternity’s “vengeful god” schtick is excessive, it is true that Storm seems to have done absolutely nothing about this murder. The FBI do indeed show up at the Storm Sanctuary in Storm’s absence, despite it being in France now. It’s the usual super-agents plus the new Galacta, who has a big hammer and still presents herself as an FBI agent.<\/p>\n

Issue #3 opens with a flashback where Storm visits Maggott in the afterlife (inexplicably, the Olympian afterlife, even though he’s South African) and says that she’s going to resurrect him, despite his warnings that it’s a bad idea. A new flashback in this story reveals that she did\u00a0<\/em>go on to use magic to resurrect him, apparently with Dr Voodoo’s equipment, her own untrained magical abilities, and the help of the ghost of Voodoo’s brother\u00a0 Jerome Drumm. However, back in\u00a0Storm<\/em> #5, Eternity\/Storm defeated the demon Eegun and fed him to Maggott. This apparently imprisoned Eegun within Maggott, and Storm’s amateurish meddling has caused “recoil”. This is why people’s heads have been exploding throughout the series.<\/p>\n

Eternity seems to have a point about Storm having screwed up here, assuming he’s telling the truth. Storm also appears to accept this particular point, drawing an analogy with the days when she used her powers to bring rain to her village without realising that she was merely redirecting it from somewhere else that also needed it. (This is footnoted to\u00a0X-Men<\/em> vol 2 #78, but the basic idea that Storm’s powers work like this had been around since the\u00a0Official Handbook<\/em> if not earlier.)<\/p>\n

According to Eternity, Maggott’s resurrection has also<\/em> prompted the march on Earth’ by “Eegun’s war generals” – Akujin and her sisters – who are now in a position to find Maggott, murder him again, and thereby free Eegun. Apparently the “master” they were trying to free has always been Eegun, and the fact that most of issue #1 was devoted to Storm imprisoning Susanoo is just coincidence. But… in issue #2, Akujin and her sisters didn’t know where Eegun is, beyond Akujin’s assurance that she had sensed him somewhere on Earth. So they can’t have been specifically heading for Earth to kill Maggott. Presumably the idea is that Maggott’s resurrection created some sort of signal that alerted them to the possibility of coming to Earth.<\/p>\n

For her part, Storm cites Eternity making her kill Hadad in\u00a0Storm<\/em> #12, which Eternity duly apologises for. However, Storm then goes on to argue that Sango’s pantheon, the Orishas, would not have been decimated in the first place if it wasn’t for the fact that Hadad was dead, and therefore able to be deployed as part of Death’s army. (This isn’t really supported by what we saw in issue #3; in that story the Orishas has already been decimated before Hadad, Knull and Gorr were called in to help against Olorun.)<\/p>\n

Storm also argues that Eternity was responsible for imprisoning Eegun within Maggott in the first place, and that she only attracted the attention of the FBI because Eternity imprisoned Abraxas in the Storm Sanctuary (which we learned in\u00a0Storm<\/em> #9). These are rather weaker points, since imprisoning Eegun within Maggott seemed to be working just fine until Storm meddled with him, and while Abraxas was the\u00a0immediate<\/em> cause of the FBI taking an interest in Storm, they’re so awful in this book some other excuse would have presented itself. In keeping with the meta themes of the previous issue, there seems to be an aspect of Storm arguing that it isn’t her fault that the story has been engineered to put her in this position.<\/p>\n

By the way, for some reason, this argument is illustrated in part by scenes of Hadad leading Death’s army against Arakko, where Apocalypse and Jon Ironfire are among the forces fighting them. Arakko seems to be an arbitrary target here.<\/p>\n

After rejecting Eternity, Storm gets back to Earth by borrowing the local version of her mother’s ruby from Furaha. We’re told that the ruby can also be used for interdimensional travel, with a footnote to\u00a0X-Treme X-Men<\/em> #10 from 2002. That story does indeed say that the ruby is magical and can be used to power interdimensional travel – it needs outside assistance, but presumably we’re to take it that Storm rounds up the remaining ingredients elsewhere.<\/p>\n

All this leaves a single page to resolve the imprisoned gods, the invasion of Akujin’s forces, Death’s attack on Arakko, the alternate N’Dar\u00e9 Munroe, and the FBI. The book doesn’t even attempt to do so – instead, it just declares that we all know Storm wins, and leaves it at that. So all of this apparently gets sorted out off panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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