The weasel known as Logan has never been and never will be good enough for Storm. He literally stinks as a character, as evidenced as canon in a very recent X-Men book where Beast said he might be able to come up with a way to make the weasel have a less offensive odor.
Marvel saw fit to rip Ororo out of the arms of a black man who smelled great and throw her into the arms of a white man who smells like a dead wet dog. And now that THAT fling is kaput, they'll show her with her hand on Forge's shoulder, because, you know...
Yeah, at least she's not with a Black man.
*sigh* I really didn't want to talk about this, but I will. The whole Ororo/Logan pairing did not come out of left field. Storm fans have been clamoring for years for these two to get together. I have always been against this pairing for reasons I have already discussed at length on this board. For Wolverine, Jean Grey will always be his first pick, though he is NOT her first pick. If he were her first pick, she would have married him instead of Cyclops. Pairing Storm (or any woman) with Logan makes her a consolation prize. She's too good of a character for that. One of the reasons I was open to the idea of Storm and BP being rushed into marriage is prior to that, she and Logan were going on dates and stuff. They were not yet an item as she was also going on dates with Nightcrawler, but the risk of her being with Logan loomed on the horizon for me. I don't want that. When Panther and Storm broke up, Marvel simply resumed the budding relationship that was brewing between Storm and Logan (Nightcrawler was dead at the time...he's gotten over that now, lol) and put a twist on it to jab a Panther. This was done not because Panther is Black, but because there was a certain enmity between the two men concerning Ororo's affections. So, pairing Storm with Logan had multiple uses for Marvel. 1) It would appease much of the Storm fanbase who hated the marriage and have wanted Storm and Logan to get together since WAY before a Storm/Panther marriage was even a concept. 2) There was already a foundation for the two of them to date prior to the marriage plus they share a long and profound friendship which is always good to build a relationship off of. 3) It adds a touch of drama/interest for those who follow Storm/Logan as it brings up the enmity between the two men. 4) Its a good way of letting readers know that the marriage is truly over because of reasons 2 and 3 on my list.
Pairing Storm with Logan has nothing to do with Marvel wanting her to be with "anybody but Black." If that were the case, they would not have allowed to marriage to happen in the first place. Even when sales were dipping on the title, they tried to preserve the marriage and title by bringing on Maberry. The focus on Shuri was the final nail in the coffin as that killed any hope the book/marriage had of rebounding.
All that said, it's out of character for Storm to just go into a relationship so soon after the break up. She's very slow to give her heart. Despite her and Logan going on dates prior to the marriage, it wasn't very serious at all. I still maintain that Logan is just the rebound guy.
The fact is that for DECADES Marvel has been pairing Storm up with numerous white men. That is the OVERALL picture here. I already know WHY Marvel does what it does...right nowI'm looking at the company DOING IT in the first place.
You could come up with a million reasons why Marvel enjoys having its black female characters in romantic relationships with white male characters and at the end of the day, the fact remains that Marvel is purposely keeping black women and black men apart, just like DC Comics does, and just like movies and television do. White men think about white men having sex with any ethnic female on Earth, and Storm to them is no exception.
If you were REALLY paying attention, you would have noticed this.
And what are your excuses for Misty Knight? Oya/Idie?
And what are your excuses for the black male characters at Marvel who are in relationships (if they are in relationships at all) with women who AREN'T black? Luke Cage? Falcon? Miles Morales?
And isn't it odd how Christopher Priest and Reginald Hudlin (two black men) wanted to put Storm and Black Panther together (Priest was told he couldn't and Hudlin was told he could a few years later), but any white writer putting Storm in romantic situations ALWAYS put her with white men (aside from Forge)?
Claremont started the romance thing between Storm and BP, but of course under him the romance never went anywhere and they were supposed to have parted, and years later when they met again they parted as "just friends." Then decades later when Claremont wrote that X-Men Forever crap, he had Storm kill Black Panther.
Isn't it also odd how AFTER Hudlin was no longer writing Black Panther, Marvel immediately did everything they could to keep Storm and Black Panther apart and THEN purposely destroyed the marriage, AFTER WHICH STORM IMMEDIATELY HOPPED INTO BED WITH another white man AFTER she was shown to be physically attacking her then-still husband?
Again, let's look at what Marvel has been doing to Storm for DECADES, and continues to do to her AFTER her marriage to a black man.
Also, Shuri had NOTHING to do with Storm and Black Panther's marriage being destroyed or rebounding. Storm and Black Panther could have been shown to go on a second honeymoon somewhere outside of Wakanda and Shuri could have still been in charge of the country, so I don't see your point about that at all.
The marriage "failed" because Marvel WANTED IT to, just like they WANTED Spider-Man's marriage to fail, and just like Marvel WANTS the Susan/Reed Richards marriage to succeed.
And your statements about how fans wanted to see Storm and the weasel hook up just shows that a LOT of Storm fans would rather have Storm under white men than a black man (Thor, Weasel-man, Nightcrawler, Namor, Cyclops, Dracula, etc. etc.) And your response just shows that Marvel caters to that type of crap.