To be transparent: no Storm solo book would have met my incredibly high expectations. I’ve written before on how important the character was to me during my nascent nerd-dom. Anything that fell outside of my nostalgic high for the character would have no other option but to fall short. I just wasn’t prepared for how short this new Storm book fell.

What follows is my review process:

• I look at only the art. Without words, can I still glean the story?
• I read the words. Is the story creative, coherent, interesting, etc?
• I read the book to gauge the marriage of the aforementioned. Do the words and art work in concert, or are they in opposition? Are the worthy of each other?

Minor spoilers follow.

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