45 A Woman Who Could Fly

Published: Feb. 22, 2015, 11:35 p.m.

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 3/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.\n\nIn 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\xa0in the larger context of diaspora literature.\n\nX-Plained:\n\n \tForge\n \tThe Adversary\n \tUncanny X-Men #198 (Lifedeath II)\n \tStorm\n \tThe narrative impact of sexualization\n \tBarry Windsor-Smith\n \tExtreme weather in comics\n \tHallucinatory X-Men\n \tStorm in adaptation\n \tThe Storm elevator pitch\n \tOur Storm dream casting\n \tMjnari\n \tArtist editions\n \tColonialism\n \tStorm as a liminal figure\n\nNEXT WEEK: The New Mutants Go to the Arena!\n\n\n\nYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nSupport us on\xa0Patreon!\n\nBuy prints of this week\u2019s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne\xa0for\xa0the original!