Storm #8 Review

Writer: Greg Pak; Artists: A. Barrionuevo, T. Palmer, R. Redmond / Marvel Comics I was talking to a friend of mine the other day. Him: Those Storm comics…yes or nah? Me: They are a little slow, but I like that. I have time to wander through each issue. Then Pak and crew brought me Issue #8 and made me a liar. Damn, this is anything but a slow issue. It opens with Storm destroying a senator’s house and ends with…well, we’ll get to that. If anything, this issue could be subtitled “Consequences” as the repercussions of Storm’s previous actions all swirl together and come to fruition here. Storm herself is aware that she has some responsibility to bear for all of the messes she finds herself cleaning up. She uses the word Consequences many times. The first, when she’s talking about how short-sighted the FBI is in trying to blow her out of the sky:

Storm has always been one of the adults of the X-Men pantheon. No whining. No blaming. Just getting it done and leaving it better than when she found it. She exhibits that same attitude here. After using the FBI to scare some information out of the senator, Storm is off to San Francisco to find the guy who framed her for downing the senator’s plane: Davis Harmon of the Eaglestar Arms Company. San Francisco is like New York City in that it has a few iconic skyline shots. Once you see the picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, you know exactly where you are. You are also waiting for someone to knock that bridge over or blow it up. After all,…