OUT-OF-CONTROL POWERS VS. AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ADVERSARY!
As ORORO MUNROE tries to balance her responsibilities as leader of the X-MEN, her difficult relationship with KITTY PRYDE and even a NEW LOVE INTEREST, her powers are creating deadly weather that threatens to tear it all asunder! In the eye of the storm is the powerful NEW VILLAIN BLOWBACK - but as Storm summons her strength for their first historic confrontation, will even her best be enough? Continuing the all-new tale set during Storm's fan-favorite punk-attired days, by legendary Marvel writer/editor Ann Nocenti.
Rated T+
Two issues in, and Nocenti seems to be making a strong case for an ongoing series....whether she wants to or not. Storm is one of the more fascinating characters in the X-Men, and Nocenti is carefully adding to the background of Ororo in an era just before Storms powerful and magnetic Lifedeath solo issues of The Uncanny X-Men. X-Men writer Chris Claremont did such a good job of juggling a massive ensemble for that series. Its nice to see a bit of a close-up on a single character from that era. Nocentis chosen the perfect character for that close-up. Read Full Review
The issue digs deeper into the conflicts and relationships surrounding Storm at a breakneck pace. At times, this means characters come off like one-note caricatures of themselvesKitty a petulant child, Rogue a thoughtless bruiser, Wolverine a possessive and rage-fueled admirerwith even Storm seeming to be in an unusual hurry to bring this man she's known for about a day home to meet the found family. Read Full Review
Storm #2 is a tough read because characters are written with oddly miscast personalities to justify actions and attitudes that don't make sense. If you can't believe the characters, you can't believe the characters' actions, words, or motivations, and the whole issue falls apart. Read Full Review
The characters speak and act in ways that make a sort of basic sense, but the script doesn't convince me that they're motivated by anything beyond the author's will. The art is similarly effective but unengaging. It clearly communicates motion and feeling, but there are many moments of anatomical weirdness that break me out of the story.
The subtitle for this issue is “Punked” and I feel like I’ve been punk’d with this series so far.
I didn’t sugarcoat my dislike of the first issue in this limited series and I won’t sugarcoat anything for Storm #2 either. I need to say this…I’m not quite sure how this series was allowed to happened. We’re 2 of 5 issues in (that’s 40% of the total story) and it has been a complete character assassination of Storm so far.
Storm #2 continues the theme of characters behaving unnaturally, from both the way we’d expect certain characters to behave today and the way characters behaved during the time period this story is set. There’s no better example than the depiction of Kitty Pride. She isn’t just a more
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