Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 3/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which we discard our regularly scheduled programming to focus on Storm and Lifedeath II; no one draws motion like Barry Windsor-Smith; Storm goes up to eleven; and we really wish we had the frame of reference to place this story in the larger context of diaspora literature.

X-Plained:

Forge

The Adversary

Uncanny X-Men #198 (Lifedeath II)

Storm

The narrative impact of sexualization

Barry Windsor-Smith

Extreme weather in comics

Hallucinatory X-Men

Storm in adaptation

The Storm elevator pitch

Our Storm dream casting

Mjnari

Artist editions

Colonialism

Storm as a liminal figure

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