BLACK PANTHER 'SMASHES' BOX OFFICE RECORDS and HOLLYWOOD MYTHS
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/m...e-records.html
I don't know about that. Headlines can't truly make this all true by stating it, or giving the chosen facts, but in the immediate, for today at least – this is happening.
IMO this news is important to this our discussions regarding STORM for many reasons. I personally feel like if any one character and body of creators is most responsible for the possibility of this happening today it's the X-Men's Storm and firstly Claremont and Cockrum, but even more importantly, the audience they connected to and the audience (this audience here and now) that is the actual Ororo Munroe.
Storm is a woman, a powerful woman, an orphan, Goddess, a Fiction, a Story, a Queen, an African Priestess, a refugee, a mutant, a survivor from the rubble of childhood trauma, perhaps the most 'different' of the all new and different X-Men, she is black.
She suffers from claustrophobia. She suffers from anxiety in closed places. She panics in situations that trigger trauma of being buried in the fallen debris of the wreck that killed her family while they were traveling.
What does she look like, what is she supposed to look like, who deserves to define that for the masses, for us, for you?
So this Black Panther isn't the Black Panther that never had a history with Storm. This Black Panther came after Storm had made her big screen debut, and maybe she wasn't perfectly cast, but she was played by a major Hollywood actress who may have been the most recognized and celebrated African American movie star at the time.
Again, it's not really for me to say. Much of what has been shared or is so often shared about how any character should 'look' or 'dress' is subject primarily to who they are in the story of their life. Independent of us or them or even the creator really. Storm deserves this attention. YES. At the heart of almost every comment about how she should look there is hope, appreciation and freedom as expressed through this very character.
To define her? To close her in a rubble of clothes, hairstyles, trends, stereotype...well, she's claustrophobic...she'll make her way out of any heap of mess that's put upon her...including this, what I'm writing now...
She'll emerge from this however she must and can and those means are for the creator who listens and hears and sees her most vividly to provide.
I don't read the current Black Panther, didn't read the Crew and don't go to the movies or really watch any television. I did read my older brother's old Black Panther comics though and its his X-Men where I first began reading Storm around the same time...she was on the cover of my first comic book. She was the acting team leader, she was so different than Black Panther and the rest of the X-Men, her name wasn't and isn't Black Storm it's not Lady Storm...it's just Storm.
How do fans who read Black Panther and care about Storm in those books and 'his' mythos feel about her role in BP and the Crew?
How do you feel Storm changed comics, is changing comics and how important is Storm to the new industry of comics, movies, all-media?
How do you feel about her being used or not used in a 'diversity' push by Marvel?
Is it fair to compare Storm to Jean?
Were you also handed a free preview of the current Black Panther comic when you purchased your books this month?
Did you 'think' anything about that or read it or did it even matter to you at all?
Is there anybody or team of creators who you'd most like to see writing and drawing her now?
Yes, I am aware and have been reading and even posted (but did not vote) in the poll question about how Storm should look. This is, in part, an alternative discussion not meant to distract or conflict with that thread's own intent, purpose or being. thanks.