Storm #10 Review

Writer: Greg Pak; Artists: V. Ibañez, R. Redmond, S. Hans (cover)/ Marvel Comics First, let’s just take a moment to love this cover. [takes a moment] Stephanie Hans continues to turn in spectacular images that encapsulate the content without giving anything away. She really centers Storm’s power and perspective. Every one of these covers is worthy of a frame. You can see more of her art here on her Tumblr. (P.S. She also does covers for Thor.) Once you’re past the cover, this issue opens with a lovely everyday-life vibe, but there’s this narration…that’s never good. Sure the words are happy, but there’s something in the phrasing that gives the whole issue a sense of foreboding. You know it is all going to go off the rails, you just don’t know when. For now, you’re in the garden at the Jean Grey school, chilling with the Headmistress. The sharpest dressed headmistress ever.   The relaxed vibe is shattered by a large, gloopy tentacle monster. Because you know. That happens to my day all the time. And behind that gloopy tentacle monster is another of Storm’s old friends: Kenji Uedo. And there’s Beast. Who’s newest superpower should be “Most Responsible X-Man.”   To catch y’all up, Kenji Uedo was a mutant first introduced in the Generation Hope comics in 2011. His ability/curse is that his body is in constant flux and can take on any shape he can imagine. This makes for some pretty serious, and understandable, psychological damage. He spends sometime in Utopia, the mu…