Oh giddy Storm is fighting African militias again. Next arc she'll fight a possessed character from the shadow king.
Actually, she's in the Caribbean, not Africa. Secondly, you (and the others) had no problems with Storm fighting rogue African militants when BP was trying to get her to marry him, but now, all of a sudden, you do. Stop with the double standards, guys. This is getting old.
Seriously, Storm and the Black Panther broke up. You people are complaining about all the shots taken at T'challa after the break up, yet Storm was treated WORSE at the beginning of the whole project to bring the two characters together and you guys have no problems with that.
In real life, one of the major issues in the Black community has to do with Black women complaining about how Black men don't respect them. There is a lot of merit to this as well. Indeed, many Black women are now dating White men because of this and are being treated better by White men in those relationships than the Black men treated them when they dated Blacks. I hope we are not seeing a microcosm of that here. I hope this is not the mentality being shown by some of you (not all of you), but its starting to look that way.
Lets put things in perspective, the shots T'challa took after the marriage was done is NOTHING compared to the way Storm was disrespected at the beginning of the marriage project. Some of you on here (Black men, at that) are even hoping for Storm to be humiliated by a White woman in the relationship department concerning Wolverine which totally flies in the face of the rhetoric you guys are spewing here...which makes it just that, rhetoric. So, let me get it straight, its okay for Storm to be disrespected because she is a Black woman, but not T'challa because he is a man?
Most of you guys on here are simply trying to hide behind race issues on this. Its just a stick you try and use to attack Marvel for breaking up Storm and T'challa. Stop being pretenders on this. If you were real about your "concern" in the treatment of Black characters, you would have shown this same outrage when Storm was being disrespected in that Dickey mini and everything. I mean, what Dickey basically said in his mini in having Ororo and T'challa have sex as children is that Black girls are whores. He glorified this in his story and portrayed it as being something epic. This is made worse by the fact Storm was 12 and T'challa 16 in that abominable mini. That story also devalued Storm in many other ways as well. To top all of this off, Dickey didn't do this to just any Black female character, but a Black woman who was put on a pedestal even above her White female counterparts for many years by the writer who wrote the original Storm/T'challa story. Storm was untouchable and almost beyond mortal men in the way she was originally portrayed. I remember an e-mail I got from Claremont years ago during the whole "Invasion Arc" in X-Treme X-Men where Khan wanted to marry Storm. CC said to me" What's a girl to do? This man likes her, but she has no interest in him. Problem with pairing Storm in a relationship is nobody is good enough for her." See how she was put up on a pedestal? And then, Dickey did this thing in the mini. No outrage on the part of many of you about any of this who are complaining about stuff now. Also, there are a few examples early on in the marriage where Storm lost her voice. She lost that indomitable, independent spirit that is her trademark. Of course, some of these issues got better over time. The true victim of the whole thing is Storm, not T'challa as the atrocities visited upon her character were much worse than this pettiness about her making unflattering comments about him after the annulment.
Personally, I think its a good thing that the two were broken up as her character was being hurt by the marriage. She was being held back A LOT. Don't wanna except this? Try this on for size, even when T'challa was put out of commission by Dr. Doom, it was Shuri who got the shine instead of Storm. In other words, Storm played second fiddle to a third string character. She would have continued to play second fiddle in this book, too, as the precedence had been established for this with the Shuri thing. I mean, Shuri? Really? There was a lot of potential with this marriage, but it was screwed up. That's just reality.
Finally, Storm is getting her own ongoing. Finally, she has the opportunity to shine like never before. Also, she is going to fight White characters in her book and not only Blacks, so its not a slight on Blacks that she is fighting dark-skinned characters in her title. Get over it. This book is a good thing and something that should be supported. If you really cared about Black characters, you people should be rooting for a well-written, successful book about the premier Black character in comicbook history. Black Panther has Black villains in his rogues gallery (Killmonger, Achebe anyone), but Storm can't have Black sparring partners?
Did the Storm/BP marriage need to end? The answer is a loud and resounding "YES!". Do I like the way the marriage was ended? No. However, you guys are getting petty. I mean, you make a mountain out of a mole hill. Take for instance what the Amazing X-Men Annual that came out earlier this month where Storm said she did not want or need T'challa's help to deal with a personal, family matter. You guys got all up in arms over that and overreacted. I already gave my counter to that with the T'challa/Doom situation where he told Storm not to interfere in that fight and also showed where Storm did the same thing to the X-Men when she confronted Candra in X-Men issues 60-61. However, even barring those facts, to get up in arms like you guys did because she said she didn't want or need T'challa's help was petty as that pales in comparison to the disrespect Storm's character endured on several different occasions.
Also, she is iconic. I don't care what anybody says. The X-Men books are Marvel's biggest book and Storm is the undisputed first lady of the X. She is large and in charge.
