Phil Jimenez's Storm is a vision to behold.
Phil Jimenez's Storm is a vision to behold.
I agree with both of these points, especially the part of her being passive and a pacifist. claremont had pretty much had ororo ok with killing when necceasey but with lobdell came his soft reboot which resulted in him portraying her again as a character who hated violence and more a pacifist. I would say in terms of characterization, power and representation he was the one who was most responsible for her decline.
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
Really? Morrison's one for the most part was highly praised. I liked it despite hating what he did with several characters. I didnt read it as it orignially was released so that made some of the stuff easier to bare bc Marvel went and retconned/reversed alot of his material, such as Magneto being Xorn. They unfortunately left Jean dead which pissed me off
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
The only thing Morrison using Storm would have done would be make Whedon more likely to use her in Astonishing as that book and cast were the ones that really became prominent in that era, where Storm was on the decline. I dont think Storm being in NXM though would have necesarily been good for her especially considering how he planned on utilizing her, which others have mentioned here. The fans would have turned on her and she'd be hated to this day if she were to have an affair with Scott
https://www.houseofx.org/blog/welcome-to-genosha
But this political radicalism is the appropriate end point of Storm’s leadership of the X-Men. She is not someone who is willing to let unjust systems stand, and will do whatever it takes to smash racist, patriarchal, and fascist capitalist states. It’s odd how much of this aspect of Storm has been erased in subsequent years – many writers forget her passion and “by any means necessary” approach, and while Cyclops took on a similar form of radicalism through this decade, every writer cast her as fundamentally opposed to these moves despite the number of major canonical Claremont stories that would suggest that she’d more likely look to his efforts and think “yes, finally.”
Passive Storm running and hiding away in Limbo instead of being more proactive and using her powers to destroy that T-cloud was a lowpoint for me. The writers then totally didnt get her.