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Lol you take me out with these gifs! It's always a nice feeling when you meet a like-minded individual. Our views are similar in a lot of ways. And parts where we do disagree you made a logical argument that brought me over to your side. Like, BOOM! Lololol you betta do that!
Thanks so much, Cville. Coates is really going with the slow burn effect. Everything with her character is thought out, calculated and done with rigorous attention to detail. Jen's art only serves to hammer this point home further. I cannot wait to have issue #1 in my hands and immerse myself in her art. When the preview drops I'm gonna need life support. I'm gonna get myself so worked up its not even funny.
Hahaha I am really done with you! But, not really. In fact I hope you're just getting started lmao
Me too DDM! I'll be honest and admit that back then when the marriage was being built up to in the middle of Civil War when I was just a young Storm fanboy and a COMPLETE BP/T'challa noob I wasn't all for it and I thought it was rushed into myself. I even may have called him... Catman... mush to my personal shame and embarrassment these days lol. But over the last 12 years since then (which is WILD to think about), I have come to not only inform myself upon their past history and BP's mythos, but I've really grown to love T'challa as the character and man he is, faults and all. His Machismo Pride might get in the way of his better judgement sometimes lol. But I do think he's a good man and that he really tries to do his best and keep his people safe and happy as King. Most importantly that he loves her, truly. So I'm also loving the slow build up and the TIME and ATTENTION being paid to their relationship this time around. Makes my heart happy when I see them together!
When did they first show BP & Storm together? I remember there being a flashback when they were both kids and that it was an older Uncanny issue. I want to say Claremont...because when they did the whole marriage thing around CW I remember thinking "ok..yea...they established that long ago"
This mimics my experience so much it's scary. In the early years of the marriage I too resented the relationship because of her treatment in his book. It took some time to come around to truly appreciating them as a couple. The slow burn feel Coates has taken is refreshing. The fact that he writes them as passionate lovers with and undeniable understanding of one another is almost too much to handle. I'm truly grateful for his efforts. And he writes her as the powerhouse we all know her to be. It's like he's done his homework on all the gripes Storm fans have with the original storyline of their marriage. He's a baaaad man.
For those of us who have bad feelings about Storm's treatment during her marriage with Panther, I think we can all agree if Coates were going to write Panther for the next 10 or 20 years, a Storm/T'challa marriage would work well based on how he's been writing them together over the last year. My question is with Coates adding Storm to the African pantheon of "gods" and "goddesses", when another writer comes on after he eventually leaves (hopefully he stays on for a long, LONG time), do you think Storm being made a bonafide "goddess" would prevent an encore performance of the mistakes that happened the first time around if they tied the knot for a second time? Or do you think she would be written down again in order for him to shine despite being made a "goddess"? Do you think the editors that handle BP's book would mandate at some point that she be written down to prop him up like they did during Maberry's stint on the title?
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I was just thinking about Adversary. It actually makes more sense for him to be a Storm foe than a Forge one. I mean, with Forge, all you'd get are a bunch of stories where he uses that same spell over and over again to beat him. That gets old real fast. With Storm, however, especially developing this whole "goddess" aspect Coates has been playing with over the last 12 months, the battles could be exciting. Adversary could be Storm quintessential nemesis. Wolverine had Sabertooth, Captian America has Red Skull, Iron Man has Mandarin, The Fantastic Four has Dr. Doom, and Storm can have Adversary. I think he is PERFECT for her, to be honest. He's still largely a blank slate waiting to be fleshed out as he has hardly been used!
In the story you are referring to, it was established that Adversary feared both Storm's and Forge's power and potential. While the story showed us why Adversary feared Forge's power, it never fleshed out what it was about Ororo's power and potential that frightened him. I think Coates is delving into that aspect of Storm with this whole "goddess" aspect of the character he's been developing. I have hopes that he's going to show us exactly why Adversary feared Ororo.
Technically the Adversary is Forge’s own personal Villain because it ties to his own BackStory and origin. As for Storm she shares this Villain with Forge because he duped her and made a complete Fool out of her. She also shares other major Villains like the Shadow King. Storm doesn’t exactly have her OWN Villain. Other than Dracula. Your correct it was Forges spell and the sacrafice of the X-Men’s lives to trap Adversary. Unfortunately in that Story Storms powers were not useful at all. But next week who knows what could happen.
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Still, Doomwar contradicts this. Bast was the finally lock to protect the vibranium from anyone who wish to steal it. She let Doom through despite his horrendous past and current treatment of T'Challa and Storm because she saw his intent was pure, despite the cost to Wakanda. She was more a universal force than protector of Wakanda.
Even in this example, she devours Shadow King because he touch T'Challa, not because he wronged Wakanda.
This phrasing concerns me greatly. When they both have time? The time frame is so loose! I wish there was a concrete date to which they were working!
T'Challa
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King of the Dead and The Champion of Bast
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