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Storm #10
Mateus Manhanini cover art
Author: Murewa Ayodele
Artist: Lucas Werneck
Color Artist: Alex Guimarães
Letter: VC’s Travis Lanham
Cover Artist: Mateus Manhanini
Back to Time Slide #1, we were promised a war of lightning. And this expected event begins with a fussle as the storm heads towards deeper space and pocket uniforms to marshall her army against Hadad’s threat, the threat of Hadad, the storm god this week.
X-Confession time, I haven’t read many storms. This is despite Storm being one of the best titles since the Ash Age. I am grateful for its ambitious plot and fantastic art. This week’s outing is the same for books. It’s gorgeous and the range of the story feels grand to see, but I don’t lie.
It was the scope, not the quality of the writing and art that was the subject to follow. Writer Murewa Ayodere has spent most of the series building the power levels of the Storm and telling stories about the gods of the universe. I hope that we will see universe entities in titles like Imperial and Phoenix, but not Storm. There are many things that made me want to delve into the series more.
Art by Lucas Wellneck and Alex Guimares
So I did some research and reread the issue. While researching this week’s column, I found fans online complaining “Powerscaling Fanfiction” about this run. It was when I checked the storm during the X-Manhunt event that I was brought back forever with a storm that had previously had one. I’m here to push back these claims. It should be noted that, just like Chris Claremont’s run, he is considered a “goddess” early in the Storm’s power.
Ayodele’s direction is not a character break. If anything, it’s a quest for this rich character, and it’s just as effective as they were for the 20th time. We are learning to rely on her friends as well as her powers and skills as we watch the storm fighting to protect people nearby here with their power sets. This is a storm. Certainly, I was confused by the first cold reading of the question, caught up, and went back to it after learning more about what Aiyodere is trying to do with the character, and was more grateful.
The macro scale is about comprehensive plot and character orientation, and this issue features some fascinating dialogues of my favorite characters, with Maji and Storm roasting the manifold. Pacing is sometimes quick, desperate, and intentionally confusing, but in a great way. I’d like to thank Ayodele for the way they write these characters. When they don’t always feel that way, they feel serious and authentic.
Lucas Wellneck’s art is astoundingly amazing as always. The way he evokes grandeur and scales comics never stops surpriseing me. Splash Pages are some of the most stunning art in X-Line of this era, perfect for the kind of story Ayodele tells. The power and energy of each panel and every page is felt specifically. Positively… electricity. If Marvel paired almost every other artist in this book with Ayodere, I don’t think it would land as it would.
I really enjoyed Storm #10. The Thunder War is off to a great start and I want to see where this goes. I understand people who may be put off by storm by dealing with wonder and Marvel’s cosmology, but I really encourage people to come and enjoy what it is.
Art by Lucas Wellneck and Alex Guimares
Final Verdict: Purchase
A quick overview
The incredible Spider-Man #8 cover art by John Romita Jr., author Joe Kelly, artist John Romita Jr., and Inker Scott Hannah Hate Spider-Man. For the past two issues, Spidey is fighting this mysterious new character, Hellgate, and has had a runny nose beaten by him. With the exception of the two-page Mary Jane, drawn by Todd Nauk, the issue is a brutal high-octane battle, littered with touching memories of young Peter learning how to fight from Uncle Ben. This issue can be easily overlooked, considering it as a manga version of Speed, but it should not. This issue is encapsulated for the best of Spidey Mythos, the eternal underdogs, fighting good fights, and for all the benefits. From the Jump, Spidey gives him everything, Kelly’s script and Romita’s storytelling fills the page with Spidey’s despair as he struggles to keep an innocent bystander safe while fighting Helgate. Kelly’s Spidey’s inner dialogue creates an environment that worries Spidey, if not his life, as he catalogs his serious injuries and tries to find a way to survive with the art of the textures and visceral organs of Romita and Hannah. And they have the nerve to finish it like they did. – GC3 Iron Man #10 Cover Art by Yasmine Putri is a clear disappointment to see Spencer Ackerman running for a year after his shortened run in Iron Man. The book is in pain, but while Ackerman is the first author of an ongoing monthly book, its flaws are largely in ambitions that outweigh the space given. Each issue is jing-packed with ideas, and Ackerman uses superhero media to intersect genres and mash up into a bizarre, wild, charming stew. From corporate thrillers to spy, cyberpunk, fantasy, this book has it all. Ackerman clearly loves superhero comics and understands what makes them special. He uses continuity and history to inform new kinds of stories, mash up those different genres, telling stories that reflect real-world unrest on an epic scale. Of course, it makes sense to have a corporate battle with the devil! Of course, it makes sense to ask about the fundraising rebels turning into magical sacrifices for “more profits.” This final issue can bind most loose threads and plot points, but I definitely feel that some changes had to be shortened. The conflict is at the heart of the battle between Iron Man’s young apprentice and the new magical Iron Monger. The young magician idolizes Tony as a “merciful billionaire” and takes Tony’s moral and personal compromises to extremes. Tony is willing to make practical sacrifices for greater benefits, but often loses sight of the fallout in an individual. Taken by that demon’s extreme extreme bystanders, the innocent bystanders become cannon fodder. Tony’s addictiveness must either be ahead of every enemy, or the problem becomes a dark magic addiction. Giui Vilanova stepped in to bring out this final issue, and he’s a great addition with the level of detail and a large, open action layout that gives this final showdown an epic range. Alex Sinclair’s colours are lush, vibrant and textured. All magic and explosions lead to three-dimensional life. He also sells the sheen and dirt of Iron Man and Iron Monger armor. Joe Caramagna offers clear and expressive lettering that flows well even on visually packed pages. I’m going to miss this strange, creative book. It’s my pantheon of modern Iron Man runs alongside Chris Cantwell despite its short run. – Tr Moon Knight: fist of Khonshu #250 It’s hard to believe that cover art of Davide Paratore Jed Mackay wrote Moon Knight’s 50 Problems (year, Devil’s Reign). Even if it was along three different series, this should be the character’s longest tenure and tenure with a creator who loves this character’s long and strange history. Honestly, this might be the best take on the character. Because Jeff Remair is making the character a real bond with others and shrugging (of some sort) that he is Marvel’s thinnest character. He remains at least Marvel’s crazy character. Anyway, in this legacy issue (Marvel loves the legacy number to Goose sales!), our heroes confront the Asgardian gangster Achilles Fairchild who has been dealing in New York without jokingly dealing with magical drugs. The beauty of Mackay’s running at Moon Knight, and what is undoubtedly fully on display in this issue is to turn his abilities into thrilling action, the absurdity of a superhero. But this is still absurd and it’s fine. I read superhero comics because sometimes I can laugh a little with them. This is like a cartoon where a hired supervillain wants to watch Magnum PI. Or a comic where you can create a positive character from the 8-ball of Z-list villain. These are the kinds that Mackay flourished through this execution. Perhaps the only drawback of this anniversary issue is that Alessandro Cappuccio pulled out much of Mackay’s tenure until he was seduced by the more ultimate Wolverine-like pasture, which he couldn’t get back. It says his replacement, current artist Devmalya Pramanik, is for the work of the Battle Royale in this issue. This may be some of the most expressive use of panel boundaries for age action sequences. Because Moon Night is an interesting book, they are also adept at selling comedies that are key to the success of this book. Pramanik, like many of his works on the characters of his predecessors, uses this character to create the most singular cartoons in Marvel now. The final pages of this book feel like something that could lead to possible endgames for Mackay. Let’s hope he spends more years with him writing this character along with this new artistic collaborator. – DM
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