{"id":8754,"date":"2023-02-08T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2023-02-08T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:44:47","slug":"storm-the-brotherhood-of-mutants-1-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8754","title":{"rendered":"Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants #1 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>STORM & THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS #1<\/strong>
\n“Storm’s Seven”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Al Ewing<\/strong>
\nArtist: Paco Medina<\/strong>
\nColourist: Jay David Ramos<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

STORM & THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS.<\/strong>\u00a0This is\u00a0X-Men Red<\/em>, re-titled for the duration of the “Sins of Sinister” crossover. In practice, this is\u00a0X-Men Red<\/em> #10A.\u00a0It’s part 2 of the crossover.<\/p>\n

By the way, my plan for this year is to generally limit annotations to ongoing titles (or books like this that are stand-ins for them), partly so that I can make some time to catch up on reviews. I’m making an exception for\u00a0Sabretooth<\/em> partly because I’ve already started it and partly because it’s really good, but I’m going to skip over\u00a0Bishop: War College\u00a0<\/em>and save that one for reviews.<\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Storm being generally impressive amidst what’s presumably meant to be the rubble of Arakko.<\/p>\n

The logo has a Sinister diamond in Storm’s name, but don’t worry, fans, she’s still herself. As pointed out in\u00a0Sins of Sinister<\/em> #1, Sinister can’t take advantage of Storm’s resurrections to mess with her mind, because she renounced the option of resurrection in order to prove herself to the Arakkii in\u00a0X-Men Red\u00a0<\/em>#4.<\/p>\n

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PAGES 2-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Storm recounts the destruction of Arakko.<\/em><\/p>\n

The narrator is Storm, talking to Destiny, as we see on the next page. The destruction of Arakko was previous shown on page 38 of\u00a0Sins of Sinister<\/em> #1, as part of a montage sequence. According to the narrator there, Sinister’s primary objective here is to kill Storm by destroying the planet she’s on. “Invasion of Arakko with stage-two Chimera allows an insertion of a Legion clone into the planet’s core. With a psychic prompt, two seconds of complete loss of control are sufficient to destroy the planet.”<\/p>\n

Page 3 panels 1-2 show Storm at the Quiet Council meeting where she learned that Sinister had corrupted the group. That scene, and Storm’s escape, comes from pages 29 to 32 of\u00a0Sins of Sinister<\/em> #1. Page 33 then showed Destiny and Mystique approaching Storm and proposing an alliance: “We will lose unless we are smarter. We will los unless… We must be on the same side.”<\/p>\n

According to Storm, Destiny then persuaded her to hold back from launching an attack with the Arakkii forces. This advice did not go well. Storm has clearly figured out that Destiny’s motives are suspect, and we’ll see later on that she’s right.<\/p>\n

In page 3 panel 3, Storm’s forces, from left to right, are as follows:<\/p>\n