Storm #11 Review

Writer: Greg Pak; Artists: V. Ibañez, R. Redmond, S. Hans (cover)/ Marvel Comics Damn, she did it again! Stephanie Hans with another amazing cover. Feminine and very Black, Ororo just lights up this cover, surrounded by her own mist and that one lightning bolt/tear. It is strength, and just enough weakness to make that strength real. These covers really make the hard-copy comics something to hold on to. Remember last month when I said Storm issue #11 was going to be gloopy? Yeah, I was right.

I have to give mad credit to Pak here on the very first page. The reference to the classic children’s bedtime story Goodnight Moon is chillingly used in this creepy horror movie opening. Like a villain singing nursery rhymes, it just puts you on edge from the very beginning. For those unfamiliar with kid’s books (I myself have read this book eleventybillion times in the last 4 years), Goodnight Moon is a bedtime story in which the reader is putting a small bunny to sleep by saying goodnight to all of the items in the room. It closes with: “Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises, everywhere” which Kenji mocks here. Kenji continues to mock Ororo as she exerts all of her effort to clear the students (and Beast) out of the school for their own safety. Only there are some people she can’t save. Kenji has been preparing for this moment for quite some time, it seems, and has set up several of Ororo’s friends — the very people she’s been saving and protecting throughout the run — f…