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Storm Takes Command of Brian Wood’s X-MEN

X-Men #1 courtesy Marvel
X-Men #1 courtesy Marvel

Storm, Brian Wood, Olivier Coipel – it’s a creative marriage made in geek heaven!

 

X-Men #1 by Wood & Coipel launched this week with Ororo in command of an all-female team. Wood’s smashing take on the mutant windrider on the previous volume of X-Men last year was a hit with fans. I even declared Wood’s writing of Storm was the best since the Chris Claremont golden years.

 

The iconic X-woman recently split from Black Panther, joined the Jean Grey School, and is now sporting her Mohawk again. Wood tells Marvel.com how he found a voice for Storm that resonated with fans.

 

“This is one of those honest answers that don’t always come  across so well in interviews, but I don’t know. [Laughs] I remember when  I started writing X-MEN [in 2012], I said in an interview something about how I  was looking forward to figuring Storm out, to discovering my version of her  voice. In the end I went with my gut, and wrote her as a flawed but determined  leader, one not afraid to make controversial moves if the end goal is a noble  one. And it worked; the reaction to my Storm was beyond overwhelming.

 

I often write from the gut, or go with instincts. I am not a person who  spends much time self-analyzing. I prefer to trust my skills and while not  everything I do hits the target, most of the time it serves me well.”

 

X-Men #1 by Terry Dodson courtesy Marvel

Wood continues writing Ultimate Comics X-Men and now in both universes Storm wears the Mohawk hairstyle she once sported in the 1980’s. Wood explains what the change represents:

“I brought the Mohawk back in the Ultimate version of Storm, in that case mostly because I find it iconic and striking, more of a  style thing than anything else, and it made sense in the context of the Ultimate  stories. I think in the [Marvel Universe] it can represent a level of freedom  she might not have had in the recent past, sure. But I think it can change  again—why not?”

 

One of the most intriguing elements of Wood’s previous run was Storm’s conflict with Cyclops so who does Ororo answer to now?

 

X-Men #36 courtesy Marvel

“I think Storm has obligations to the Jean  Grey School, and I think she answers to the general needs and security  of mutant kind. She never struck me as a blind follower of an ideology, though.  There was this somewhat infamous interview I gave a few weeks back where I  brushed off a question asking if Storm was Team Logan or Team  Scott; I don’t know, to answer that straight, she is whatever she is in the  comics now, right? Whatever writer’s already defined that, that’s what she is.  But I’m not going there, personally. I won’t break continuity, but I’m not going  to strive to define her actions as a mutant as being in one of two boxes, you  know. I like Storm too much for that. She deserves her independent thought.

 

For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.

 

Storm appears in All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis and the new Uncanny X-Force by Sam Humphries.

By Editor

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