Whatever Pak does? It's gonna be waaayyy better than what Storm's gotten from the X-Office lo these many decades. Better than Storm got from anyone NOT named CJP, RH, or McDuffie, Yost, or Aaron during SEE WAKANDA AND DIE.
If this "Pak" comes through for Storm, he does right by Storm by doing the right thing with his write thing, and he somehow propels her above and beyond where she has languished for decades there won't be any sour grapes from this quarter. I would love to see an Ororo Munroe/Storm character created who has an appeal not simply to her core(cuckoo), audience but to the entire comicbook fandom. It would be fantastic to see Storm written and illustrated such that she grabs the attention of the casual comicbook fan, the purchases swell and
Storm=First Black Female Solo Comic Book Lead for the Big Two since...what? Monica Rambeau's miniseries or whatever?
enjoys a long, successful run.
Those of us who offer criticisms of her past portrayals and cautionary comments of what we could get from this new ongoing aren't doing so to sabotage the ridiculous book promotion campaign by Storm's "fans"(enablers). If people are going to read the book, they will read the book and good luck to them
Those of us expressing doubts do so on the strength of
decades of a depiction of Storm which while it might keep some happy -
that group of RoLo/mohawk haircut-loving/fake-fierce-one-minute-flirtatious-floozy-the-next group of enablers- has truly disgusted many of us who know that beneath all of that mutant madness and the x-crement she's had dumped on her, there is a gem of a character who if someone - like this "Pak" - does not act quickly, will find its fruition not in Ororo
where it deserves to be, but in a character
like Ororo...one likely to be of
another race and ethnicity. When we criticize Storm's past and express caution about Storm's future we're being pragmatic.
I'm rooting for Storm to succeed. But in some Storm ongoing support posts I read it's like hopeful farmers wanting to get into the chicken egg business who are not only counting the eggs before they've hatched, but counting those eggs before they have any chickens in the coop. The chickens haven't arrived yet. I would hate to see the looks on those would-be chicken farmers' faces who've counted up all the eggs their chickens will hatch when the shipment arrives and they discover that instead of uncrating all the chickens there are iguanas in the crates instead.
...ya know?
