Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. This is Chandler, and this is Chris, and
Speaker 1: this is Moriwa. And you're listening too, and it creates
Speaker 1: the podcast Welcome on in Everybody. For episode one two,
Speaker 1: we are so excited to have writer Morewa Iodeli. You
Speaker 1: are the current author of the solo Storm series and
Speaker 1: we are so excited welcome Morewa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Oh, such a pleasure. We love Storm, Chris and I
Speaker 1: Chris can express how much you love Storm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love Storm ever since her fight with Calisto, the
Speaker 3: leader of the Morlocks. That was one of the first
Speaker 3: issues that I read of her, and I just was
Speaker 3: so entranced by her power, her ability to take on
Speaker 3: any enemy even without her powers and be Victoria. Yes,
Speaker 3: like she is a goddess.
Speaker 2: And the ads in that comic was very very good.
Speaker 2: I like how she's portrayed heights and everything. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing about Storm, which I always kind of
Speaker 1: make fun of her in the sense is that she
Speaker 1: can do anything she can like if there is if
Speaker 1: there's a problem, she can be a pickpocket, she can
Speaker 1: pick a lock, she can do whatever. If she needs
Speaker 1: to be a martial artist, she can be a martial art,
Speaker 1: Like she just can do anything you need her to
Speaker 1: do in the moment because she is the She is
Speaker 1: the every woman for the X Men. She always gets
Speaker 1: them out of trouble, she always fixes it for them.
Speaker 1: And I always feel like with Storm, I always look
Speaker 1: forward to stories where she fails or she doesn't succeed
Speaker 1: because she's such an amazing character, and I feel like
Speaker 1: your stories are going to get us there. I feel
Speaker 1: like we're going to see Storm, you know, in some
Speaker 1: dangerous situations where she can't just be incredible and powerful
Speaker 1: and make get her way out of it. So I'm
Speaker 1: very much looking forward to your entire Storm series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about to make a joke of that,
Speaker 2: you know, she can't do everything anything on the stick
Speaker 2: show up.
Speaker 3: I personally have always loved the fashion of Storm. She
Speaker 3: is a fashion icon, and I love your series because
Speaker 3: with Lucas's art, you know, we get to see a
Speaker 3: lot of her iconic outfits. I look forward to diving
Speaker 3: into this issue because we see a lot of them
Speaker 3: in this issue too, and that's number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think about five different looks and we keep
Speaker 2: that up for every single issue. An issue too, she
Speaker 2: has a new superro costume where she wears that is
Speaker 2: all White's called brutal Storm. Look, you know, we keep
Speaker 2: doing that for different looks. Very so she's going to
Speaker 2: get a vibranium almal, you know, different stuff. So I
Speaker 2: guess we're playing around with a costume, a look, playing
Speaker 2: around with fashion of different characters. It was supporting characters
Speaker 2: like Frenzy. We see how wearing a Golden Brooks for
Speaker 2: our shoes, you know, so fashion is going to play
Speaker 2: very big growth in the story as well.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that, and I love that
Speaker 1: we have Eternal Storm, which is very Sailor Moon. Chris
Speaker 1: and I love Sailor Moon. We all know Tailor Mountain
Speaker 1: goes through these transformations to super sailor Eternal Sailor Moon.
Speaker 1: So when I saw that at the end of this issue,
Speaker 1: I was like, we're going there. I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have an only issue where she does the
Speaker 2: full transformation, like she turns to lights and everything before,
Speaker 2: so we get a full sale Moon like transformation.
Speaker 3: As big fans of storms, there are different types of
Speaker 3: names for fan groups for storm They're called stormcasters. So
Speaker 3: I wanted to know who came up with the term stormcasters.
Speaker 3: And how many of their ideas were explored Around the
Speaker 3: naming of the fan group.
Speaker 2: I think I've seen a couple. I think I've seen
Speaker 2: wind Riders and say stomp Casters. I wanted to name
Speaker 2: the letters page a dariyao Alta, but I think Marve
Speaker 2: wouldn't buy that. They just put Storm on the letters page.
Speaker 2: But I just like stomp castercase. I think I think
Speaker 2: that's the name of one of our weapons when Loki
Speaker 2: wanted to rival or something. So I just loved Stompcast
Speaker 2: and I just put that name in the letters page.
Speaker 2: And I'm not even sure where I edit from, but
Speaker 2: that is the one that kind of like stock with
Speaker 2: me the most because it's had Storm in its compared
Speaker 2: to like wind Rider. So that's that's why it's that's
Speaker 2: the letters page and and the letters page so far,
Speaker 2: that's what I've been using. Their Stompcasters. That's our Each
Speaker 2: letters page has been starting very fun.
Speaker 1: I noticed in those letter pages they asked all of
Speaker 1: the new writers of the X Men books, who your
Speaker 1: favorite X character is? And you said, Nimrod, explain.
Speaker 2: Yes, why, Okay, it's it's a supposed to be a joke,
Speaker 2: but I don't think anybody cuts onto so that it's
Speaker 2: sort of like a dark joke kind of thing. It's
Speaker 2: I think they asked what character do I, uh do
Speaker 2: we like most related to? And I feel if I
Speaker 2: say Storm, it feels like a chip answer. Every creator
Speaker 2: is got to like name the characters they like most
Speaker 2: related to. And I also felt like, because I'm a dude,
Speaker 2: people who think you most relate to a chick, it's
Speaker 2: like you're kind of stretching. It's a little and if
Speaker 2: I name any other character to be like, then go
Speaker 2: and write a character and leave Storm alone. There were
Speaker 2: different things going through my head, so I decided to
Speaker 2: choose Nimrod because it's what I actual kept to me
Speaker 2: at a point where I was still writing this story
Speaker 2: and I was still scared. So at the time that
Speaker 2: I was still contemplative, I was going to probably haven't
Speaker 2: drop the series and everything. So I chose Nimrod because
Speaker 2: at that time, I felt Storm was going to defeat me.
Speaker 2: Like Storm the series and in the current story, Storm
Speaker 2: is the one that defeats nime Rod. So it's I
Speaker 2: think I explained it on Twitter where I gave this
Speaker 2: full explanation of our nime Road represented me at that
Speaker 2: moment facing Storm and everything. So yeah, and the the
Speaker 2: artist also illustrated that about to where Storm fats Name
Speaker 2: Road was also Lucas was also the artist on the project,
Speaker 2: so there are lots of circumstances around that relationship between
Speaker 2: Storm and Name Roads that I was like, I'm Neimerod
Speaker 2: at this point makes sense.
Speaker 1: I see, I see your point. I will accept the answer. Well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Lucas Vernec. Lucas is the artist of the
Speaker 1: current series of Storm, but he was a previous guest
Speaker 1: on our podcast, so we always like to call back
Speaker 1: to previous episodes in case those listening want to go back.
Speaker 3: That's right, So listeners, if you want to hear that
Speaker 3: podcast episode of X reads, go back to where we
Speaker 3: cover New X Men number one twenty one.
Speaker 1: Yes, now in Storm, we'll get into it in deeper
Speaker 1: discussion when we're going into the show or the actual issue.
Speaker 1: But you really foreshadow that Storm is going to die,
Speaker 1: you say like kind of just basically say it an
Speaker 1: issue one, and I'm am a little scared for her.
Speaker 1: I'm scared for you writing this because people love Storm.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine, So I don't want you to
Speaker 1: spoil anything. I just want to lay it out for
Speaker 1: the audience early that we know, or at least you've
Speaker 1: foreshadowed that she's going to die in this series, and
Speaker 1: I'm very, very curious how this is going to happen.
Speaker 1: But now the Watcher has made her a turn, we'll see.
Speaker 1: But one of the questions that came from our fans
Speaker 1: as we ask them online if they had in questions
Speaker 1: for you, and she gets radiation poisoning in this first issue,
Speaker 1: and their question was how much time is going to
Speaker 1: pass between issue one and two and does the radiation
Speaker 1: poisoning affect her into the second issue?
Speaker 2: This second issue basically takes place almost like the next day.
Speaker 2: This story flows in the very almost make it almost
Speaker 2: with each issue like a diary, you know. We kind
Speaker 2: of almost follow out like a day to day kind
Speaker 2: of thing, you know, like we were seeing issue one
Speaker 2: to see like three days later, five days ago, you know,
Speaker 2: so you kind of see, you feel the impacts because
Speaker 2: I think Superrus leave these extraordinary lives that each day
Speaker 2: is so interesting, it's so fun to covide, So there's
Speaker 2: no serious time jump, and it should so we're going
Speaker 2: to see the effects of radiation poisoning as she continues
Speaker 2: superheroactivities an issue too, So we're stilling to see the effects.
Speaker 2: I can't say how long it will last without it's
Speaker 2: being a spoiler, but we're going to see ar go on,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to issue too, especially focuses on are
Speaker 2: trying to ignore it, but say that it's she can't
Speaker 2: ignore it. She's basically dying and then she has to
Speaker 2: look for means of solution, means of solving this problem.
Speaker 2: And her first attempt is to go to night Nurses
Speaker 2: new Superhero hospital. There's got to be in actinsas so,
Speaker 2: and so we're going to see what the new super
Speaker 2: hospital looks like and some adventures are get to happen
Speaker 2: because of that visits. So we've got to say that
Speaker 2: doctor Voodoo is going to come into the play because
Speaker 2: it's both a doctor and the master of the mystic art,
Speaker 2: you know, and will they be able to solve this problem?
Speaker 2: You know, if they solve it, does that mean she
Speaker 2: she will still survive or she still die, you know,
Speaker 2: different things like that. So it's something that will still
Speaker 2: continue in this first few issues, That's what I can say.
Speaker 2: But the fact that when she died or not, she
Speaker 2: will die. That's inevitable. Like I've said, it's an issue one.
Speaker 2: It's inevitable at this point. So but how is it
Speaker 2: going to happen? What are the consequences? Is yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's one of the adverts in the Marvel books.
Speaker 2: Marvels made a joke like, oh, maybe we should have
Speaker 2: made it a mini series.
Speaker 1: Another question for you was what is the what is
Speaker 1: your favorite element? That storm can wheeld? Is it lightning? Wind?
Speaker 3: Is it hurricanes?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: What's your favorite?
Speaker 2: How to say temperature? The fact that she can suddenly
Speaker 2: freeze you or defrost or heat and you know it's
Speaker 2: the temperature manipulation is my favorite, and second is wind
Speaker 2: and then lightning. Those are my top three.
Speaker 3: We did have another question from our listeners and audience,
Speaker 3: how is it working with Lucas Warneck.
Speaker 2: When I was writing the script, I didn't know who
Speaker 2: the artist was going to be, So I was trying
Speaker 2: as much as possible to just like write as generic
Speaker 2: as possible, just be true to myself, because you know,
Speaker 2: usually as a writer you're told to like try to
Speaker 2: write to the strength of your artists, like, oh, if
Speaker 2: the artist is better at drying machineries and landscapes, you know,
Speaker 2: you write stuff to that if it's more of character dynamics,
Speaker 2: you know. But I was writing these scripts just for
Speaker 2: me because I didn't know who the artist was going
Speaker 2: to be. And when I found out it just Lucas Warnick.
Speaker 2: I got a little scared and worried because I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh man, it's going to eat all my scripts and
Speaker 2: you'll probably just like quits in the middle. Because this
Speaker 2: is someone that has worked with Jerry Dougan. You know,
Speaker 2: Kieren Galen is going to just catch a with of
Speaker 2: my scripts and be like, like you probably asked Marth
Speaker 2: like did I do something wrong? Why did you have
Speaker 2: to demote me with like with this writ or something?
Speaker 2: And so I was so pleased when on like suddenly
Speaker 2: I think he read the scripts for is should too
Speaker 2: or so, and it twitted and say like, oh, my
Speaker 2: script are one of his favorites. They're very visual and
Speaker 2: fun and everything. So that was very very artwarming. So
Speaker 2: it's it's been really fun, and I think some Breevots
Speaker 2: probably ask some things around and I think it's the
Speaker 2: funt of that we have some things in common. So
Speaker 2: that has been nice. For example, when it comes to
Speaker 2: like a lot of fashion. I was making specific iNTS
Speaker 2: in the script about the need for fashion and things
Speaker 2: like that, without knowing that Tom was probably taking note
Speaker 2: of that and picking an artist that was I was
Speaker 2: probably looking for a writer I was going to explode
Speaker 2: outside of him, Like we're currently working on an issue
Speaker 2: where there's going to be a big dinner and stormware
Speaker 2: out to like dressing this very fabulous dress, and Lucas
Speaker 2: just comes with like three beautiful gala dress designs and
Speaker 2: we did now to choose. We're like, damn, like this
Speaker 2: is just so good, you know, beautiful stuff, and every
Speaker 2: issue like is you know how we have like this
Speaker 2: beautiful design is saying like el fire Gala that's they publish.
Speaker 2: Imagine you're getting stuff like that every issue by Lucas
Speaker 2: Warnek and it's not for the public eye is just
Speaker 2: for like you and the editor to see. That's how
Speaker 2: crazy it is. As like saying, oh, yeah, picked one,
Speaker 2: and like how do we pick one? Like this all
Speaker 2: just so good? I like, you know what, pick one
Speaker 2: for us? And it's like I don't. I can't pick either,
Speaker 2: you know. So it's it's it's been really fun because
Speaker 2: I think we're very visual in nature, we were very visual.
Speaker 2: We're both very visual, we both gravitate towards beauty. And
Speaker 2: I also noticed that even is panel structures I've gradually changed,
Speaker 2: you know, his his work is becoming a little more cinematic,
Speaker 2: using more landscape panel layouts, which we've seen subsequent issues.
Speaker 2: So I think we're kind of synchronizing in these stories,
Speaker 2: which is also I didn't specify that I wanted cinematic panels,
Speaker 2: but those are my favorites, and without saying them, he
Speaker 2: adjusted to those panels, maybe because if we just feel
Speaker 2: it from the script or something, or maybe that's what
Speaker 2: he likes to and it's just going with the flow.
Speaker 2: So it's just been beautiful walking together in this series.
Speaker 2: It issue looks better and.
Speaker 1: Better, wonderful. Yeah, I mean, we love his work. He's incredible,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was spotted i think by Marvel
Speaker 1: people early on because of his fashion sketches. He used
Speaker 1: to do all these redesigns of characters before he was
Speaker 1: writing or i'm sorry, drawing from Marvel, and so I
Speaker 1: love that you get to push that element of his
Speaker 1: talent because he's so incredible. So we love Lucas. We
Speaker 1: loved when we had him on the show, but we're
Speaker 1: going to start diving into storm. So this is going
Speaker 1: to set the era.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Normally Chris and I we talk about comics from the eighties,
Speaker 1: from the nineties, a long time ago. I don't think
Speaker 1: we have ever done the same month. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's so rare where we're like the issues
Speaker 1: coming out and we're talking about it. So this issue
Speaker 1: came out October second of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: The top song at the time was called a bar
Speaker 3: Song by Shaboozie, and.
Speaker 1: That song is everywhere. I hear it on TikTok, I
Speaker 1: hear it on Instagram, I hear it in shopping malls.
Speaker 1: That song is everywhere, So I can understand why I'd
Speaker 1: be number one on October second. The top film is
Speaker 1: a film that I really want to see. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. It's called The Wild Robot.
Speaker 3: It's a Jeeps animated film, and this is about a
Speaker 3: robot that a shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, and the
Speaker 3: robot must learn to adapt to their harsh surroundings, gradually
Speaker 3: building relationships with animals on the island.
Speaker 1: And it looks very sweet, so but what's really fascinating
Speaker 1: about October second, the day that your book came out,
Speaker 1: is that there was an annular solar eclipse.
Speaker 3: That had an anular solar eclipse.
Speaker 1: Yes, not a total solar eclipse total blocks out the sun.
Speaker 1: Annular there you still see the ring of fire around
Speaker 1: the sun. But still that is a very auspicious thing
Speaker 1: to happen on the day, the first day of your
Speaker 1: first issue of Storm. So I just thought it was
Speaker 1: I thought that was a cool coincidence.
Speaker 2: Very cool.
Speaker 1: Well, let's do this all right. We're doing Storm number one,
Speaker 1: as you said, published October two, twenty twenty four, written
Speaker 1: by yourself morewa Iodeli art by Lucas Vernick, and it's
Speaker 1: titled Grand Opening. And on the cover, we'll just do
Speaker 1: the cover a you know, there's many many beautiful covers
Speaker 1: of Storm number one, And on the cover, tell us
Speaker 1: about putting this cover together. Did you have any direction
Speaker 1: or how did this come together?
Speaker 2: Out of the directions for each issue, what's for issue one?
Speaker 2: I think the editors like taking control because they all
Speaker 2: is that at tense to be for you want to
Speaker 2: not be plots specific, for it to be character specific,
Speaker 2: almost like peanut like pinups. So that anyone can like
Speaker 2: approach the story and give it a shot, because, for example,
Speaker 2: this story is good to gradually move towards like cosmic thrilla.
Speaker 2: But if the issue should give you that from the beginning,
Speaker 2: some people might not be willing to try it out.
Speaker 2: But if it's more a little like generic and something
Speaker 2: that anybody can approach, you get to fall in love
Speaker 2: with it before you find out what it's really about.
Speaker 2: So the editors usually give more of the directions for
Speaker 2: issue on covers understood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this this cover cover aids by an artist named
Speaker 1: Matthaeus Menjannini. I'm going to take a shot at that name,
Speaker 1: and it's gorgeous. It is Storm in her new outfit
Speaker 1: that she's wearing for the Avengers. She's, you know, skyrocketing
Speaker 1: across the ocean. There's a sunset or sunrise behind her,
Speaker 1: and it's quite dynamic. It's it's a wonderful pinup and
Speaker 1: it does attract the eye. Of course they want to
Speaker 1: pick it up because it's so cool looking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really feel her force and she's moving at
Speaker 3: great speed with a lot of power.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Is that style is very recognizable when Tomby what sends
Speaker 2: me to Cova. I knew it was the one street
Speaker 2: because it was is the cob artist on Wakanda series
Speaker 2: and also on God Spike Jonathan Aikman. So I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: I love this guy. What is very very good.
Speaker 1: I love those covers of God. I did not even
Speaker 1: make the connection that that was the same cover artist,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's beautiful stuff. But yeah, like diving
Speaker 1: into this issue, we are really excited because our very
Speaker 1: first page, we get Storm's Closet.
Speaker 3: Yes, the fashion looks. I love it, love love it.
Speaker 1: It's so cool, it's giving Clueless. Yes, you know, at
Speaker 1: this movie Clueless, there's a character named Chare and she
Speaker 1: has a computer with all of her outfits and she
Speaker 1: gets to go through her outfits and then the closet
Speaker 1: is mechanized to bring it out. And so to me,
Speaker 1: this is the you know, the twenty twenty four version
Speaker 1: of Cluelyst's Closet, And we get, yeah, all of these
Speaker 1: amazing Storm looks. What's your favorite, Chris, by the way,
Speaker 1: of the ones that we currently see, which one is
Speaker 1: your favorite?
Speaker 3: So, you know, the bathing suit look in the center
Speaker 3: is so reminiscent to me, of the Arcade video game,
Speaker 3: which we're obsessed with. That Arcade game brought back so
Speaker 3: many nostalgic memories for me, So anytime I see that outfit,
Speaker 3: I always feel like it's my favorite. But ah, that
Speaker 3: punk rock Storm so good, Mario.
Speaker 2: My favorites is My favorites is to jumpsuits to Jim Lee.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, now is it an Now? I know that
Speaker 1: it changed because there was the one when she has
Speaker 1: the short hair on the next page, and then there's
Speaker 1: the one that she wears that is also in the
Speaker 1: animated series. I think Jim Lee did both of them.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, But do you have a preference between
Speaker 1: the two of the jumpsuits?
Speaker 2: No, they won't buy jim Lee. I think the other
Speaker 2: one is extreme x men, I'm not sure that the artist.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Well, I prefer the one like that
Speaker 2: we see in x N ninety seven in the Phosophew episodes.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is that is a classic iconic outfit. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna choose my favorite. You know, I might Chris, I
Speaker 1: might have to go with you because I think the
Speaker 1: original John Cockrum might be But I love the design
Speaker 1: of the as Guardian Storm, the thor when she wields
Speaker 1: Thor's hammer. It's one every time I see anybody cosplay
Speaker 1: this look or I see it drawn. It's so dynamic
Speaker 1: and so cool looking. And I know it's very short
Speaker 1: lived in her comic life, but I love seeing it
Speaker 1: so every I'm so glad it gets featured in the comic.
Speaker 3: And it's such a wonderful trip for us down memory
Speaker 3: lane here on Read's podcast, because I feel like we've
Speaker 3: covered so many of the issues where these outfits appear.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm loving it, and I do. I do
Speaker 3: love that as Guardian looks so much too.
Speaker 2: I think it's mixing retten appearance in Immotal though by
Speaker 2: Alio and Matt and Cocolo the ask Guardian look.
Speaker 1: Yes. I do like in the closet how she has
Speaker 1: all of her head dresses on mannequin heads, because she
Speaker 1: wears all sorts of different crowns and it's been drawn
Speaker 1: different ways by many different artists, and so I love
Speaker 1: that that also gets a moment in the closet.
Speaker 3: Well, while we're still in the closet, I need to
Speaker 3: know what is on the right on that page where
Speaker 3: we see her looking at the holograms and you see
Speaker 3: the Hellfire Gala on the left in the background. But
Speaker 3: what's that dress on the right.
Speaker 2: I think it's a dress where she she why, it's
Speaker 2: where she was having It's a comic where she was
Speaker 2: dance with Night's Crolla, and I think they danced into
Speaker 2: the clouds. It's it's it's a look from a comic.
Speaker 2: Forgot where the public is from bods, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: a it's a popular distance. It's a dinner gout where
Speaker 2: she wore and she was dancing with Nightcrala. So it
Speaker 2: does exist in the comments.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Chandler, I think we just found another
Speaker 3: issue that we get to x reads.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, it would cover that one. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: we see this gorgeous door and it's kind of engraved
Speaker 1: with her upbringings as being well, this is when she
Speaker 1: her her origin of being in the rubble and losing
Speaker 1: her parents all the way to becoming a goddess of
Speaker 1: the weather. And the way that this mural is done
Speaker 1: is incredible. Now there's two other murals. I see. There
Speaker 1: is the bottom left, which to me, is this the
Speaker 1: moment where she stabs Callisto in the heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the morlocks right, more when she comes to live
Speaker 2: the Morlocks.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, after and she says, Morlocks listen to me. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I see in the bottom right she's Queen
Speaker 1: of Kanda. Yes. I love the detail. You guys like
Speaker 1: really obviously love this character and you, you know, really
Speaker 1: pull from all sorts of interesting elements. I chose.
Speaker 2: Are on that rubble and when she was the goddess
Speaker 2: of the office in Kenya where she was mostly nude,
Speaker 2: and Lucas chose Queeno Wakanda and the Morlocks.
Speaker 1: I love how then Storm comes out the door and
Speaker 1: she doesn't just walk out the door, she louts out
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, this is probably like Lucas, just look at
Speaker 3: that hair or just the and the color is too on.
Speaker 3: This knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no good.
Speaker 1: We'll give a shout out to the color artists. Uh
Speaker 1: Alex I see Guemares and uh fair Cefuentes souh, so
Speaker 1: big shout out to those two. We get our title page,
Speaker 1: which is a gorgeous, giant full page of Storm, and
Speaker 1: it's half in the light, half in the dark. A
Speaker 1: little bit of foreshadowing is that we are going to
Speaker 1: be going to dark places styled grand opening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is something we're going to be saying
Speaker 2: in every issue of Storm. We're going to be seeing
Speaker 2: title pages with like different unique at walk. But I've
Speaker 2: got to be repeating art walk, so you're not going
Speaker 2: to be saying this particular image like every issue like
Speaker 2: you're saying some books. It's going to be. It's going
Speaker 2: to be unique artwalks every single time that's going to
Speaker 2: representage title. So like initial two is death by Voodoo,
Speaker 2: and I got to see a page of Storm being
Speaker 2: sick in our bedroom in the Storm Sanctuary, you know.
Speaker 2: Initial three, it's going to be another title in pen
Speaker 2: in Doom. I got to see a shot of a
Speaker 2: Gothic statue in the cemetery, you know. In the issue four,
Speaker 2: Storms and Dead in a pool of water are in
Speaker 2: the rain, you know, and I think it's a flaming.
Speaker 2: The wind is tied too, you know. And in issue
Speaker 2: five it's good the tytoo is going to be Oblivion
Speaker 2: weights no longer, you know. So I get to say
Speaker 2: different at walks that represents each of those titles. So
Speaker 2: we're going to be having fun those types of pages
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Incredible. I love it. We I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: all these. By the way, we then turned into this
Speaker 1: Storm Sanctuary and we learn all about this incredible place
Speaker 1: that she is built in Atlanta, and I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: By the way, how the internet got mad that Storm
Speaker 1: has her own sanctuary. She probably saw that and it
Speaker 1: was so silly that fans were just like, how does
Speaker 1: she have this? It's just like, how does Superman have
Speaker 1: a fortress of solitude? Exactly? It just it just happens.
Speaker 1: It's comic books, and so why not? And I love this.
Speaker 1: I'm curious on creating the Storm Sanctuary, what was your direction?
Speaker 1: What did you really want to kind of have us
Speaker 1: know about the sanctuary.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the design, like the look of
Speaker 2: the sanctuary, I wanted some I wanted a place that
Speaker 2: was very massive, like the size of like four city
Speaker 2: like four to five city blocks, extremely massive, and she
Speaker 2: was alone there with her animals, but in case of emergencies,
Speaker 2: the place to fill up with people instantly. So it's
Speaker 2: so it's it's we we see a lot of all
Speaker 2: these superhero fights where you know, there's all these dangerous situations.
Speaker 2: You know, you're fighting a bad guy. Buildings are collapsing
Speaker 2: and all the like where do the people go, like
Speaker 2: in during times of war like the Cold War, if
Speaker 2: they were like bonkers and stuff like superhero shaft things
Speaker 2: like that. That's what there's there's superhero bases that are
Speaker 2: massively before things like that, like oh, there's this great
Speaker 2: battle you know, stay in Justice happening. She goes there.
Speaker 2: Other people are evacuated to this place, so she was
Speaker 2: good to have like backup food and stuff, adjusting Ma
Speaker 2: Jessy purposes and outside everywhere safe. Yeah, pack your loads
Speaker 2: and go. But I wasn't super sure where I was
Speaker 2: going to look. I know I wanted a lot of plants.
Speaker 2: I know I wanted a lot of animals because that's
Speaker 2: reflects storm. But I was looking for I was looking
Speaker 2: at images of like this incredible I don't know if
Speaker 2: they were fake or not. Incredible, like shopping malls kind
Speaker 2: of thing in China where they have like big screens
Speaker 2: where you just see like wheels almost like swimming, crazy
Speaker 2: stuff like that kind of thing. So I just sent
Speaker 2: a couple of images and stuff. So and Lucas took
Speaker 2: that and was like, okay, okay, this is to non
Speaker 2: naturalal So I decided to like make it look more natural,
Speaker 2: So I think it took expressure from like the Korean
Speaker 2: super trees, you know, and different things, so it made
Speaker 2: it look more natural, more nature friendly, and made it work.
Speaker 2: So really happy about that.
Speaker 3: He definitely looks so peaceful and serene. And we see
Speaker 3: Storm flying through the sanctuary and approaching, you know, the
Speaker 3: front gates. I'm assuming those are the front gates, and
Speaker 3: she has a big inhale and then next hale because
Speaker 3: she opens the doors because she has to now do
Speaker 3: a press conference, and she is surrounded by reporters.
Speaker 1: We basically get a little bit of a story from
Speaker 1: the reporter. But we're going to go back in time.
Speaker 1: We're going to go back seven days ago to Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City where there was a disaster, and of course Storm
Speaker 1: is the scene. And I love that she brings Frenzy
Speaker 1: with her. You know, I think I don't really see
Speaker 1: those two often together, but I think they work very
Speaker 1: well together because Frenzy is just brute strength, is able
Speaker 1: to accommodate storms. You know, she doesn't have physical strength,
Speaker 1: she just has incredible strength overall them. But I do
Speaker 1: love that having somebody impervious to help with this kind
Speaker 1: of disaster situation. I thought Frenzy is a good choice.
Speaker 2: And very much. Yeah. And I think because Storm has
Speaker 2: this very sad story that has to do with like
Speaker 2: building collapse, that's how she lost appearance, you know. And
Speaker 2: you know she also got injured on so many things.
Speaker 2: I think it's a scenario that would have been plain
Speaker 2: in height so often. So she probably has like a
Speaker 2: list of people that she knows that are perfect for
Speaker 2: this scenario. You know, was the person that as impenetrable
Speaker 2: skin that when not get hurt with the persons super
Speaker 2: strengths that can go into tight spaces and lifts big
Speaker 2: rubbles up. You know, it would be good to have
Speaker 2: someone like callous strength and impervious skin, but is so
Speaker 2: big and huge, might not be able to get into
Speaker 2: nooks and cranies. You know. I think you would have
Speaker 2: she would have thought of all these things, and she
Speaker 2: was able to just pick the perfect person Frenzy. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the perfect person for this, for this thing. So it's
Speaker 2: so besides the fact that she has history with h
Speaker 2: and so many things, I also think she would pick
Speaker 2: up because it's something that she would have constantly been
Speaker 2: in her mind because she's she's the perfect hero for
Speaker 2: this kind of rescue Storm and arcause Storm would have
Speaker 2: always been taken about this. Who's the perfect person for this?
Speaker 1: That's great. I love the thought that goes into that.
Speaker 1: And of course I love Frenzy's outfit. We talked about
Speaker 1: this a little bit at the front, but you know,
Speaker 1: she has these very cool gold shoes, purple high waisted pants.
Speaker 1: She's got a white blouse on with suspenders and these
Speaker 1: really actually have a pair of these these gold tips
Speaker 1: that you screw onto the onto the lapel of your shirt. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I have a pair of these, so I know exactly
Speaker 1: what these were. And then she has amazing around purple
Speaker 1: glasses with gold rims glasses. Yeah, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 1: And of course Storm looks incredible as always. She has
Speaker 1: like a pantsuit on and her her blazer is actually
Speaker 1: a coat, I guess, a big, big, giant billowy coat,
Speaker 1: and it's got like some sort of Paisley design type inside.
Speaker 1: On the outside it's just a flat black look, and
Speaker 1: she's got black heels on, a gold head wrap and
Speaker 1: gold bracelets and kind of a bunch of necklaces around
Speaker 1: her neck and no shirt on. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: she because she's very comfortable being naked.
Speaker 2: So I wanted, I wanted, desperated to bring back the
Speaker 2: head wraps. It's a very it's a very popular thing
Speaker 2: in Africa, and it's also something that should walk very
Speaker 2: often in Chris Clement's era, but we've not seen that
Speaker 2: in head drops for a while. Yeah, I understand that
Speaker 2: it doesn't want that to be very proud of that,
Speaker 2: but air drops are also very important to us, so
Speaker 2: that balance. So we're like, okay, we's she's going to
Speaker 2: have some things where I got to see out with
Speaker 2: the head wraps, so I just had to bring it
Speaker 2: back because I have to bring it back.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's great, you know, I as as
Speaker 1: a design style and as a cultural style, Like I
Speaker 1: think it's really cool to see the head ramps, you know.
Speaker 1: I've definitely in the Twin Cities where I live. We
Speaker 1: have many Somali people here, we have the second largest
Speaker 1: Somali population, and so we see a lot of head
Speaker 1: raps here as well. And I feel like we storm,
Speaker 1: like you said, used to wear that and and I
Speaker 1: love the design in the style of it. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you pushed for that because it's so cool
Speaker 1: looking and of course it comes into play when she
Speaker 1: gets a little bit more dynamic at the end because
Speaker 1: it has to fly off. You see the action of
Speaker 1: it actually because those are you know, tied pretty tight
Speaker 1: for it to come off.
Speaker 2: It's kind of yeah, yeah, like one of my favorite
Speaker 2: cartoons growing up, or Samurai Jack. And one thing I
Speaker 2: like about sam Right Jack, is because you know he
Speaker 2: was on his baggy clothes, like I'm so restrictive at
Speaker 2: the time, so fight, well, you know when the clothes
Speaker 2: come off, you know ye're in for a lot of action.
Speaker 2: You're in trouble now, that kind of thing. So that
Speaker 2: kind of thing for the head dropped, like, oh man,
Speaker 2: some lets ahead go. You're in trouble now, you know
Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Well, well, we see a lot of destruction and rubble
Speaker 3: as are flying overhead, and they are there because they
Speaker 3: have the ability to perform miracles and help the situation.
Speaker 3: As they're surveying the area, you know, Storm is just like,
Speaker 3: where are the reads so empty? Surely not everyone in
Speaker 3: the city is trapped under rubble, but guess what, A
Speaker 3: lot of people are so frenzy. She senses that shockwaves
Speaker 3: are going to be incoming. But Storm's got it. She
Speaker 3: can handle that she can handle almost anything, and she
Speaker 3: lifts rubble and she finds some survivors. It looks like
Speaker 3: a family there with a poor child that is just
Speaker 3: you know, crying her eyes out.
Speaker 1: The rescue sequence is really really cool and dynamic, and
Speaker 1: with the constant threat of these shockwaves coming out of
Speaker 1: the nuclear plant, we should we should preface that what's happened.
Speaker 1: If if you have not read this, please go read
Speaker 1: the issue. But if you're just reading along with us,
Speaker 1: There's been a nuclear meltdown at the plant and is
Speaker 1: sending shock waves into the city, and Storm is able
Speaker 1: to neutralize these shockwaves with her air pressure powers of
Speaker 1: creating counter waves to block the press. Sure that's coming
Speaker 1: out of the of the nuclear plant. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: this beautiful sequence of all these people being rescued. And
Speaker 1: then of course Frenzy rescues somebody from Orcus and they're
Speaker 1: wearing an Orcus T shirt. She I love the coloring
Speaker 1: of making her panel red because it shows the shock
Speaker 1: of her anger that she has and the indecision that
Speaker 1: she has in this moment, because she's like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to rescue this person. But Storm of course snaps.
Speaker 2: There's Pittis did mixed up with Anga with so many things.
Speaker 3: Just like one of the reasons why I love Storm
Speaker 3: is this moment here because she says, we save everyone,
Speaker 3: you know, and and the next panel is just you see,
Speaker 3: you see love and compassion of Storm. You see, you know,
Speaker 3: all of these beautiful moments of her helping people and
Speaker 3: Frenzy helping people, and that's just you know, it's wonderful
Speaker 3: to see mm.
Speaker 2: Hmm it up in a dog, you know, puts it out,
Speaker 2: fires up in old ladies. Yeah, yeah, things like that.
Speaker 1: But this next shock wave sends a little bit of
Speaker 1: debris that Storm does not catch. She's not perfect. She
Speaker 1: cannot stop everything in the tracks. So a piece of
Speaker 1: branch or a piece of a tree lodges itself into
Speaker 1: her shoulder, causing her to bleed, and you know, it
Speaker 1: looks pretty bad, but you know, she does not let
Speaker 1: it slower down. She's like, we have to say, these people,
Speaker 1: this is just a flesh wound, as they say, and
Speaker 1: she is not having it. And this is when the
Speaker 1: head wrap comes off. But she's like, enough with these shockwaves.
Speaker 1: I'm going into the heart of this and figuring out
Speaker 1: how to make this thing stop. Because you know, she
Speaker 1: figures her cold powers, her temperature powers can freeze the
Speaker 1: reactor and make it stop, and so she starts making
Speaker 1: it snow in Oklahoma of all places, down on this
Speaker 1: nuclear plant. And in the sequence, what I love is
Speaker 1: that you remark on how the plant has destroyed the fish,
Speaker 1: it has destroyed the animals, and she does not like
Speaker 1: this plant. She's very, very against the nuclear power.
Speaker 2: There's so many things that apples in that sequence that
Speaker 2: I'm trying to recollect everything that happened in my head.
Speaker 2: First of all, I wanted to show the fact that,
Speaker 2: like the way some people say, like, oh storms like
Speaker 2: a glass cannon, that even though she's this super powerful being,
Speaker 2: you know, like Frenzy, she's not vulnerable. You know, just
Speaker 2: a little debris moving at eye speeds its capable of
Speaker 2: hurting her. You know, there's this power move that she
Speaker 2: makes that I saw in a classic comedy that she
Speaker 2: doesn't do so often anymore, where she can quickly almost
Speaker 2: like teleports, or move at incredible speeds by riding lightning
Speaker 2: up into the skayats, you know, very eye speeds, you know,
Speaker 2: and she is angry. She's always in tune with nature,
Speaker 2: which also are from you know, in the opening scene
Speaker 2: with in a storm sanctuary where all these plants are
Speaker 2: like green and the animals are healthy, and and then
Speaker 2: but at the other side of this, it's it's this
Speaker 2: nuclear power plant and because of it's going nuclear, it's
Speaker 2: killed us all this life. And if we're to note,
Speaker 2: it's even though it's happening after this happened before the
Speaker 2: storm sanctuary. Is it this that triggered that to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm about to do the counter able
Speaker 2: to do something about it. You know, if there are
Speaker 2: things like this causing arm to the ecosystem, what if
Speaker 2: I create something that helps the ecosystem? You know, So
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Just trying to like play around
Speaker 2: with a lot of things from from thematic deep things
Speaker 2: to cool action moments.
Speaker 1: Yes, she gets close to the nuclear power plant, frenzies
Speaker 1: protecting the people with an awesome thunderclap, and we see
Speaker 1: that Storm has radiation poisoning. This is the first time
Speaker 1: I've ever seen Storm throw up on mail. For me too,
Speaker 1: it's alarming. I think that you know that this could
Speaker 1: happen to her, that she has radiation poisoning, but she
Speaker 1: still soldiers on, you know, she doesn't let this stop her.
Speaker 1: She you know, grabs a lead door and she starts
Speaker 1: going into the reactor because she's going to stop this
Speaker 1: reaction no matter what, even if it kills her. And
Speaker 1: as she makes her way down, we see a surprise.
Speaker 1: It's not the nuclear reactor.
Speaker 3: It's actually a boy, and it's a mutant boy. And
Speaker 3: he is hovering in the center of this room and
Speaker 3: with all this energy swirling around.
Speaker 1: Him, this nuclear energy.
Speaker 3: It's really sad to see on the bottom below though
Speaker 3: of this page, a bunch of dead research scientists. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he says, I'm sorry, I can't stop myself. The
Speaker 3: more I try to stop, the worse it gets. Please
Speaker 3: please Storm kill me. And Storm is using a door,
Speaker 3: a metal door with people in it to just kind
Speaker 3: of like soldier on like Chandler was saying, just trying
Speaker 3: to get to the boy. But that is a lot
Speaker 3: of force. That that boy has a lot of uh
Speaker 3: power and energy.
Speaker 2: As the great does. How does our super powerful without
Speaker 2: child is it's it's it's also something I kind of
Speaker 2: like relate to what's on another side of It's not
Speaker 2: in terms of power or something. Well, I think there
Speaker 2: was this time that I didn't know I was having
Speaker 2: like migraines. I didn't know what they were, but I
Speaker 2: know I was having like this serious, like else kind
Speaker 2: of attack where I'm li like in this so much pain,
Speaker 2: like just so much pain, and none of the regular
Speaker 2: meds that you use for regular ethiache works, you know.
Speaker 2: And there was a time that the pain was just
Speaker 2: so much, so so much, so so much that I
Speaker 2: closed my eyes and I prayed that God should just
Speaker 2: kill me, that maybe if I die, like the pain
Speaker 2: would stop. So it's always something I also try to
Speaker 2: always put in my stories in that there are things
Speaker 2: worse than death, you know, and sometimes it can be
Speaker 2: emotional pain, it's can be physical pain, it can be
Speaker 2: extreme guilt. You know, there's so much there's so many
Speaker 2: things that are worse than death. And that was what
Speaker 2: that boy was experiencing at that moment.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the mutant metaphor of the kind of
Speaker 1: puberty of it, of discovering your powers, and and you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen many of those stories told over time and
Speaker 1: where we see mutants going through their puberty awakening of
Speaker 1: mutant powers, and this is probably one of the most
Speaker 1: cataclysmic ones that we've seen on page in a while.
Speaker 1: But it of course can happen, and it's not their fault.
Speaker 1: It's just something that has triggered and started. And I
Speaker 1: think the empathy that you know gets told in this
Speaker 1: story is so fantastic to kind of, you know, say,
Speaker 1: it's not their fault. It's just kind of something that happened,
Speaker 1: and we can't hold them accountable for it. We just
Speaker 1: have to learn from it and try to, you know,
Speaker 1: stop it from the future in a way of you know,
Speaker 1: nurture and identifying and all that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 1: what's really fascinating in your storytelling, which I was. It
Speaker 1: took me kind of a couple of times just to
Speaker 1: kind of really lock in on how interesting this is
Speaker 1: is that we see that there's the giant alien Kaiju
Speaker 1: thing in the plant diversion. People think, oh, that's what happened,
Speaker 1: and all of the public opinion is surrounded on fear
Speaker 1: and hatred of alien and alien technology and not this
Speaker 1: mutant boy. And you're so used to seeing the other
Speaker 1: narrative of it's a mutant and all the people hate
Speaker 1: the mutants. We've seen that story all the time, So
Speaker 1: to twist it on this weird alien Kaiju technology. I
Speaker 1: thought was a really interesting angle to take on this
Speaker 1: because it just shows how the public opinion just sways. However,
Speaker 1: it's going to sway whether it's true or not.
Speaker 2: Especially in politics.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: You see when it's sampful campaign, you know, you see
Speaker 2: everybody say, oh, yeah, the current ruling party, you know,
Speaker 2: the lights to you. They try to so distrust like
Speaker 2: this is the generation where we've had the most distrust
Speaker 2: for the Government's rightfully so by the way, you know,
Speaker 2: even even the defending party, you know, when they want
Speaker 2: to want to talk, they won't talk bad about the
Speaker 2: government that they were part of and try to win
Speaker 2: your votes, you know. So it's sometime I wanted to
Speaker 2: like explore that general distrust for the government and you know,
Speaker 2: distrust in the media that we keep saying over and
Speaker 2: over again, like if something is going to rival bigotry,
Speaker 2: I think that would come close. And someone said so
Speaker 2: as someone said something very interesting online, which was also
Speaker 2: part of what I was going for about The thing
Speaker 2: about bigotry sometimes is it's for a lot of people
Speaker 2: you can't necessarily cure it. You just changed the direction,
Speaker 2: like oh, they et mutants now, but why do they
Speaker 2: certainly love mutants quotes unquote, you give them another enemy
Speaker 2: to eight. Oh now it's the aliens. Oh now it's
Speaker 2: those you know. Now it's those engineers and all those
Speaker 2: this things. You know, I already start saying, like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're attacking some in their school. The teachers are not
Speaker 2: defending the kids. You know, all the things you hear
Speaker 2: that they do to mutants, they are certainly doing it
Speaker 2: to this other group of people, you know, And that's
Speaker 2: that's that's what they do. So sometimes when they stop
Speaker 2: criticizing one party, it's not because they're now better people.
Speaker 2: They just find their new targets, you know, almost like
Speaker 2: the old Watchman thing of you know, give them become
Speaker 2: an enemy, that kind of thing. So yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: also one thing I wanted to play with.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it was really fascinating and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that storytelling because what it does is, of course,
Speaker 1: it forces your main character to make a decision. And
Speaker 1: you know, before we get to her conversation with iron Man,
Speaker 1: I just I love that you have a target and
Speaker 1: it says storm shopped here one.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just.
Speaker 3: Noticed that that's a great Easter egg.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, So anyways, I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really wanted to have phone. I really wanted
Speaker 2: to phone without full spread. The thing is Storm doesn't
Speaker 2: talk much, so and I might not get to show
Speaker 2: off on the fact that I know to like write characters.
Speaker 2: And because I'm not an American, I also want to show
Speaker 2: off that I think I can write a few American
Speaker 2: accents and stuff. So and as a new writer, you
Speaker 2: get a lot of criticisms that this person is not
Speaker 2: just good in dialogue and some some something. So I
Speaker 2: also wanted this play to kind of show off that, yeah,
Speaker 2: Storm doesn't talk much, but if I was writing like
Speaker 2: a story where the characters talk much, I can handle it,
Speaker 2: don't worry. But yeah, so it's also you need to
Speaker 2: show off there to like just writing people from different
Speaker 2: sets with friends, accidents, with different personalities and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great. But yeah, we go to the scene
Speaker 1: with Tony Stark and she's asked him to analyze was
Speaker 1: it the alien technology that did this or was it
Speaker 1: the mutant you know, child? And after a lot of analysis,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to count the times, it's eight hundred
Speaker 1: sixty six million, nine hundred seventy eight thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five times.
Speaker 3: That's right on multiple machines through various content processing you
Speaker 3: and it's using several algorithms, including some design by Reid
Speaker 3: Richard's Lunella Lafayette Forge, Rebe Williams, and Storm's former sister
Speaker 3: in law SuRie.
Speaker 1: Yes, so this is red Bull quadruple million. Time to check.
Speaker 2: No doubt about.
Speaker 1: It's no doubt about it. And know Storm is faced
Speaker 1: with that choice. And like you know, as as as
Speaker 1: a writer, you've got to You've got to put your
Speaker 1: characters through hard decisions. And you really give Storm a
Speaker 1: hard choice because she could stay silent, let people stay
Speaker 1: angry at this distant thing, you know, or making.
Speaker 2: Is already dead. You know, yeah, that I'm not here.
Speaker 2: You know something? Well, well why you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And she she does what she feels is correct.
Speaker 1: But before she tells everybody. I love how she introduces
Speaker 1: herself as I am Storm, Mistress of the Elements, because
Speaker 1: we know that that's the very first thing she says
Speaker 1: in X Men, the animated series.
Speaker 2: Yes, because I was. I was also watching the animated
Speaker 2: series at the time when I was writing. That's because
Speaker 2: you know, I was still pitching, I was still doing
Speaker 2: different things, you know. So I was when I was
Speaker 2: also watching the series, and that was part I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm going to put that line in there. Yeah, Mistress
Speaker 2: of the Elements.
Speaker 1: It's so good, it's so good. But yeah, we get
Speaker 1: this big speech from her. Go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, though, she is feeling those effects of that radiation poisoning,
Speaker 3: and she is on stage in front of the world,
Speaker 3: in front of all these reporters at the podium, and
Speaker 3: she coughs and she says, Goddess because on her hand
Speaker 3: is blood. So we know that, you know, she's in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yes, we get glimpses of where everybody else is at
Speaker 1: over at Haven, which is Gail Simone's book friend Kenny
Speaker 1: x Men. We have that cast up characters of Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Jubilee,
Speaker 1: and this is Ransom, one of her outlayers, Yeah, sitting
Speaker 1: in the kitchen of their New Orleans home. And then
Speaker 1: we have some Avengers up in their Earth's orbit each
Speaker 1: Q And And what I didn't realize until just now
Speaker 1: is that Storms Sanctuary is actually like applying saucer. It's
Speaker 1: not actually built in Atlanta. Because I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you why did you build it in Atlanta? But I
Speaker 1: see it doesn't it's not doesn't exist in one place.
Speaker 1: It moves around like a like.
Speaker 2: A yeah boy, it's in Atlanta, boy, it can move around. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: quick behind the scenes notes, yes, I think Lucas. Lucas
Speaker 2: really wanted Cyclopes to be there, so he already framed
Speaker 2: the characters where Rumsome is, that's where Cyclopes does Cyclopes.
Speaker 2: You could see when the post everything it feels very Cyclopes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So but we're like, ah, so I I liked it,
Speaker 2: but to was like, it's getting to confuse lots of people.
Speaker 2: I was like, boys, it could be like Cyclopes came
Speaker 2: over to like ask some discussions or something with the
Speaker 2: like no, so okay, let's make it Ransom because Ransom
Speaker 2: has the is the most physically like physical like Cyclopes.
Speaker 2: He's tall, he's a little bulky and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense, and and he's there in that
Speaker 1: storyline at that time. So but yeah, she she tells
Speaker 1: the people the truth. She said that it wasn't alien technology,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the engineers. It was a young Muton boy
Speaker 1: whose hour came to fruition and the way that it's
Speaker 1: illustrated as far as people's faces turning to you know,
Speaker 1: their their hatred is now moved from aliens onto the mutants,
Speaker 1: and you know, the way that the people react around
Speaker 1: the kitchen table is a great dynamic of seeing Wolverine
Speaker 1: walk out of the room and like you could tell
Speaker 1: that they're just like No, though, I will say, I
Speaker 1: feel like in this situation, Rogue or night Crawler, you know,
Speaker 1: or I don't know, some of these characters would have
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing as Storm. I feel
Speaker 1: like their hearts would have been aligned to that decision
Speaker 1: making Wolverine maybe, I mean, he's a secret keeper.
Speaker 2: So in the in the original one, Wolverine walks away,
Speaker 2: Cyclops also walks away. Okay, yes, kept the secret to
Speaker 2: both of them. Both of them would keep the secret.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, both.
Speaker 2: Of them are the ad two that walked away. So
Speaker 2: we had to cut Cyclops from walking around. Then Ransom
Speaker 2: would not walk away. Some would just be like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And what are your thoughts about the reactions of the
Speaker 3: Avengers to this.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's mostly it's mostly it's mostly like, man, she's
Speaker 2: going to be in a lot of trouble and you know,
Speaker 2: that's also extra responsibilities for us. If your team meets
Speaker 2: is going through a lot, that's also something like how
Speaker 2: much can you rely on that person too if they're
Speaker 2: going through like so so so so much, you know,
Speaker 2: so different stuff like that. So yeah, so there's that's too,
Speaker 2: There's there's it's mostly worry and fear, not feel hap,
Speaker 2: but there are percussions of what she had just done.
Speaker 3: Well, Storm, on her first day of declaring herself Earth's
Speaker 3: protector and nurturer, had fueled prejudice within its humans and
Speaker 3: made its mutants the target of public disdain. And we
Speaker 3: see a more wide shot of this panel of Storm
Speaker 3: alone at the podium, but now the audience is empty
Speaker 3: and there are a few stragglers that are leaving, but
Speaker 3: there's overturned chairs, and it just feels as if the
Speaker 3: public has abandoned her, which is.
Speaker 2: A ton on you know, because there was news about
Speaker 2: the Storm series even before I was contacted Run to
Speaker 2: work on the series, So there was already rumors about, oh,
Speaker 2: Storm is going to run for Congress and other stuff.
Speaker 2: So that's why I put this in the story. I
Speaker 2: wanted to like kind of throw people off, so add
Speaker 2: this story independently. But I also wanted to play with
Speaker 2: that too. That Yeah, your thought she was going to
Speaker 2: run for office because she's popular and stuff. Yeah, now
Speaker 2: she isn't so popular. If she tries running for an election,
Speaker 2: she probably gets zero votes or something. It's that bad,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then on the final page we get a
Speaker 1: brush with Eternity, the being with no end, and they
Speaker 1: have found Storm worthy and they transform her, and I
Speaker 1: guess in reality or in their mind to eternal Storm.
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't tell if this is happening to
Speaker 1: Storm on planet Earth or if this is just happening
Speaker 1: in the ethos of Storm.
Speaker 3: Is this an astral version of her?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is this is not happening to our This
Speaker 2: is just happening like it and it's mind because the
Speaker 2: narration says, but beyond that planet, beyond that Solar's system,
Speaker 2: beyond that you rest, like this is a realm that
Speaker 2: is in like the manifestation of I think dimension of manifestations. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's the name of the realm. We're going to get
Speaker 2: to see that place in Storm five. So like this
Speaker 2: is just like it turn it's his mind of yeah,
Speaker 2: this is my this is my plan for this check
Speaker 2: I'm going to turn it into this cosmic being.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So and now, so the story's going to be how
Speaker 2: will this happen? You know? And what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Like is she got to imbue Storm with this power
Speaker 2: or is she going to take over Storm's body and
Speaker 2: kill Storm? And you know, it's like, what's going to happen?
Speaker 2: Is this a good thing or a bad thing? You know,
Speaker 2: we don't know yet, And so some people celebrate in
Speaker 2: ups like how sure is going to be a good thing?
Speaker 2: You know, it's might be a bad thing. So like
Speaker 2: you had Dark Phoenix, like you know, he add Dark
Speaker 2: Phoenix saga and online I kept saying this is the
Speaker 2: turn saga. How are you sure like this is a
Speaker 2: good thing? Yeah, well, let's see, this might be a
Speaker 2: good thing too, you know. And if you notice the
Speaker 2: the look and the design on the faces like African
Speaker 2: war paints kind of thing, that's cool. The crown is
Speaker 2: back and of the crown from the David Cockroom design.
Speaker 2: It symbolizes a goddess form and everything. But also the
Speaker 2: clothes she's wearing is a little similar to rogue storm.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a form of storm that shows up
Speaker 2: when Storm was first met Doctor Doom and she transformed
Speaker 2: into this terrible form that would control all the weather
Speaker 2: on the planets at you know, and in the narration,
Speaker 2: Generation says that this form of Storm is as powerful
Speaker 2: enough to rive out the Phoenix. So and you can
Speaker 2: see that similarity with this form too, like as there
Speaker 2: always been this connection with Eternity that we didn't know
Speaker 2: was that what was happening then, was that eternal Storm
Speaker 2: form coming out then that we didn't know, you know.
Speaker 2: In the Narration, in the first appearance of Storm, you know,
Speaker 2: it says our eyes are blue, you know, and as
Speaker 2: old as time, or say older than time, you know,
Speaker 2: something like that. And it's like, how can someone's eyes
Speaker 2: be older than time? Like she's what really teenager? How
Speaker 2: could you get so as so's It seems like there's
Speaker 2: always been this foreshadow of a relationship with Eternity for Storm,
Speaker 2: and we're finally going to say it's coming into fruition,
Speaker 2: you know. In Fantastic four where T'Challa and Storm replaced
Speaker 2: Sue and Read, you see where they're trying to save
Speaker 2: the universe and doctor Strength able to save the universe,
Speaker 2: how to move Eternity into Storm's mind because I and
Speaker 2: Storm are the only two people in the entire existence
Speaker 2: that would house that much power, that could alse eternity
Speaker 2: in their mind, you know, So why is that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Why are they do only to that can do that?
Speaker 2: You know, so things like that. So there has always
Speaker 2: been this connection, and we're finally bringing it to the forefront,
Speaker 2: and we're going to see what that means for Storm
Speaker 2: in this series. But be bad bats very cool.
Speaker 1: Well I can't wait. Yeah, so much. Or for first
Speaker 1: of all being on the show, and also for giving
Speaker 1: us some insight into the making of this book and
Speaker 1: what we can expect, because you know, I really hope
Speaker 1: that the series is very successful and you know, sells
Speaker 1: a bunch of copies. So you know, this is a
Speaker 1: great little teaser for people if they are listening and
Speaker 1: they are debating if they're going to collect the Storm series.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely convinced. I'm definitely collecting the whole thing. So
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Adam. This is basically the first time
Speaker 2: that Storm is becoming a solo hero. So because we're
Speaker 2: creating a lot of new things for us, this series,
Speaker 2: especially for collectors, is going to be having a lot
Speaker 2: of bunch of first you know, first appearance of Storm's
Speaker 2: new bees, you know, first appearance of it's a no Storm.
Speaker 2: You know, So you're going to be having a lot
Speaker 2: of frost first first, because we're going to be creating
Speaker 2: a lot of new things, adding a lot of new things,
Speaker 2: you know, an issue to in text form anyway, we're
Speaker 2: going to be saying, what is the link between Storm
Speaker 2: and you know Agamoto fo so supreme? You know, so
Speaker 2: we're good to see things. You know. There's the first
Speaker 2: time stops with to meet doctor Voodoo. You know, what
Speaker 2: does it mean? You know? And so it's it's it's
Speaker 2: an exciting time to be a Storm fan, the second
Speaker 2: time to be a fan of comics.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I understand next year is her fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 1: I think so, yes, yes, yes, this is a great
Speaker 1: time to be a Storm fan. So wonderful. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being on the show. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate you being here. Somebody wanted to follow you on
Speaker 1: social media? How would they find you?
Speaker 2: I'm available on Instagram and on Twitter on threads, but
Speaker 2: I'm usually easy to find on Twitter. I reply to dms,
Speaker 2: to tweets, and I give a lot of information about
Speaker 2: the series when new issues are coming out, plots, you know,
Speaker 2: czs and stuff on Twitter at Moria so yeah, or
Speaker 2: just if you we finally get to it. Any time
Speaker 2: a new issue comes out, we got we get ashtab
Speaker 2: urus spoilers to trend, you know, and sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: we have like I one of both Sweet Sweets X spoilers.
Speaker 2: So if you're finding it difficult to expel my name
Speaker 2: or find it, if you go to a roal spoil
Speaker 2: as you probably see it a couple of tweets by me.
Speaker 3: All right, awesome, Well, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: This has been amazing.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me it. It's a pleasure and
Speaker 2: I really add a lot a lot of fun.
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