Storm #6 Review

Writer: Greg Pak; Artists: A. Barrionuevo, T. Palmer, R. Redmond The threads that our Goddess of Weather, Ororo has gotten herself entangled in are tightening issue by issue. After spending some quality time with Yukio in Las Vegas (by which I mean, after saving Yukio’s bacon and having her “friend” stab her in the back) it is time for Storm to get on a plane and go back to New York. Storm is torn about it, the promise to finish what Wolverine started weighs heavy, but she also wants to strike Yukio with a lightning bolt, so time to go! On the plane, things start to happen quickly. Ororo is immediately recognized as a hero to the people because of her work in Santo Marco in Issue #1. That warm fuzzy feeling is immediately squashed by anti-mutant and racist sentiment from another passenger, a Senator riding the same plane. Just proves that even being able to control the weather isn’t respectable enough for some people.

What follows is a mid-air confrontation with an unknown enemy that is as dangerous for Storm as it is for the poor mundanes on the plane. Half the passengers make it worse, half of them make it better. But it is up to Storm to make it right.

Let me give some praise to the new art in this issue. The cover, done by Stephanie Han, is great fun, showing the now iconic social media moment of someone taking a photo of Storm while she saves fights an unknown enemy among the clouds. The interior art is done by Al Barrionuevo (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker) and Ruth Re…