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The following contains major spoilers for Storm #6, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Marvel’s Eternal Storm is bringing back the X-Men’s original Utopia.
After Charles Xavier’s brazen breakout from Graymalkin Prison, the former leader of the X-Men finds himself in desperate need of any help he can find. Fortunately for him, the titular hero of Storm #6 is willing to lend Charles a hand in staving off the budding cosmic war that his daughter Xandra has been swept up in. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t gone over well with the X-Men of today, who are convinced that Charles deserves the sentence handed down to him, and who are willing to make the trek all the way to Utopia if that is what it takes to bring him in.
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Art by LUCIANO VECCHIO
Colors by ALEX GUIMARÃES & RACHELLE ROSENBERG
Letters by VC’s TRAVIS LANHAM
Design by JAY BOWEN
Main cover art by MATEUS MANHANINI
Variant covers by FRANCESCO MOBILI & MORENO DINISIO, PEACH MOMOKO, and PHIL NOTO
First seen in 2009’s Dark Avengers #8 by Matt Fraction and Luke Ross, the island known as Utopia had far different beginnings as Magneto’s infamous Asteroid M. This orbiting space station was already replete with everything that the X-Men and their fellow mutants would need to take care of themselves, even if it was in dire need of repair after the heroes’ last explosive battle left it largely inoperable. After being carefully brought down to Earth for repurposing, the remains of Asteroid M were rechristened as Utopia, which opened its doors to mutants everywhere as a sovereign land to call their own.
Despite numerous attacks against Utopia and its mutant inhabitants in the years that followed, the island remained a mainstay of the Marvel Universe’s landscape for nearly a decade, far longer than most other attempts at developing an independent mutant nation. It was during 2012’s Avengers vs. X-Men crossover event when Utopia was lifted from the sea by the Phoenix Five, who recreated it into a series of floating, towering structures. When Cyclops was stripped of the Phoenix Force, his control over Utopia was lost along with it, and the once gleaming island crashed into the sea irreparably broken.
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Following the similarly tragic end of Krakoa, Storm decided to embark upon an overtly public solo-mission to single-handedly bridge the deep divide that the war between Orchis and mutantkind left behind. Tragically, this led to Storm furthering that divide after a disastrous mission that also subjected her to a lethal dose of radiation poisoning. After exhausting all options and turning to a demonic pact to save her own life, one which she broke, it was the living embodiment of the Marvel Universe, Eternity, who ultimately stepped in to save Storm’s life. Rather than doing so out of any purely benevolent intentions, however, Eternity saved Storm so that she could serve as its champion in an upcoming battle to the death with its similarly unfathomable sibling – Oblivion.
Storm #6 is available now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel Comics
“}]] The most wanted mutant in the Marvel Universe is leading the X-Men on a dangerous manhunt, all the way back to their original Utopia. Read More