What’s In A Name?
As a teenager I strongly identified with the heroine Storm of the X-Men. Her compassion, serenity and willpower resonated with me. She became my role model and inspiration. Storm was born with the ability to control the weather and this made her majestic in my eyes. I related to the wildness of her power. Many a time I drew my mother’s ire for playing in thunderstorms. I had always wanted to fly. I loved the sound of the rain. However, Storm’s powers came at a cost. As her abilities were tied to her emotions, she had to keep her feelings in check or else she could have potentially disastrous results on the environment. What teenager could not relate?
Another unique aspect to Storm that rang true to me was her connection to the Divine. Storm often prayed to a Goddess or “Bright Lady” and was herself worshiped as a goddess by her African tribe. This powerful representation of the sacred feminine echoed aspects of my earlier obsessions: Snow White, for her naivete and kindness, Princess Leia, for her bold independence, and Marilyn Monroe, for her uninhibited sexuality. Storm also mirrored my earlier devotion to the Ancient Egyptian goddess Nephthys which continues to be a powerful source of my spirituality.
Through high school and into college I followed Storm’s adventures as chronicled in The Uncanny X-Men and in Classic X-Men reprints. I obsessed over her portrayal in the 1980s cartoon series. In college I felt so strongly identified with Storm that I adopted her name, first as a nickname and then legally. In 2008, I created this site to share my love of my namesake, but it soon grew into much more.
Stormantic is a combination of the words storm and mantic (pertaining to prophecy or divination) which weaves together my connection to nature as well as my affinity for tarot. I now use it as an umbrella term that covers comics, art, dolls, writing and tarot.
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Hey, love the art and the drawings! You’re a very talented writer. Also wanted to let you know about my X-Men Site, http://www.xmenfansite.com
Hi Storm,
How are you?
Do you remember the CSD afterparty in San Francisco?
You didn’t told me about your drawings
I’m a drawer too
Greets
Lukas
Hi Storm, I really enjoy your blog. I am a big fan of Ororo and I like all the photos you have shared. Thanks!
hey storm~
this is petrina, aaron farmer’s friend. he says you were a smashing good tarot reader. and with all hallow’s eve creeping up up on us i start jonesing for a reading.
is this something you do for ‘strangers’? if so, what do you charge or trade for readings?
thanx!
~petrina
ps. i hope contacting you this way is ok. who knows when i would have ever met you in real life :]
Hi,
I see you liked the OHOTMU entrees.
Let me know if you ebver want to commission ant art from it or like it for your work.
Take care,
Joe Rubinstein
Hi Storm! I just discovered your blog and I love it! Storm is one of my favorite characters, and all-time favorite X-Man (especially in her classic look). I’m glad someone out there is voicing exactly what I think and feel about her. She is an icon.
Aaron
Heya fellow Hero! Just wanted to say it was smashingly aqua fun to have you stay in my AquaCave last weekend. Fighting crime is better with friends!
You Rock.
Ride the lightning.
SeaMan
STORM STORM STORM!!! HAWK just informed me of your world here…..LOVE IT!!!! i have had many cell phones in my time….all of which have crumbled under the wrath that is my pockets and fingers! Your number has inevitably left that contraption, so Ring me with any news of you being on the east side and we will work out life!!
Hello, Storm! I’m a Storm fan too! Have you seen these Storm pics before?
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Ororo_Munroe_(Earth-616)/Gallery
Thought you might wanna see them if you haven’t!^_^
Storm, not sure why, but this is my first time to your site. LOVE it! And I emphatically agree… IMAN should have played Ororo.
Loving you,
Tower
hey storm. this is james murray (stg & myspace friend). i just signed up for a blogspot AND wordpress, still deciding which one i like more. both are very foreign and confusing to me as far as picking a simple yet attractive layout that organizes everything accordingly. i dig the simplicity of your layout and just wanted to know which template you used (if any). any other tips will be helpful and most appreciated. my blog looks like a disaster right now. shoot me an email or message me on myspace of facebook. everettmurrayjames@yahoo.com
Love your White Queen Wednesday posts! May I repost at emmafrostfiles.com? You can e-mail me if you’d like. Lemme know.
Sorry I didn’t call you post-APE, someone packed up my Princess Witch Boy copy with your number in my box [which my roommates hauled back to San Diego] and it made me sad faced.
Glad I got to talk to you and dance like a fucking fooool at the Isotope party. You’re absolutely lovely and I REALLY liked PWB – excellent read.
<3 Jess
I agree with the Iman comment. With a bleached version of Tina Turner’s wig from Mad Max Beyone Thunderdome.
Halle Berry = not fierce and independent as Storm at all. She’s like a little sex kitten. Halle Berry would have made a better Rogue.
Grace Jones might have made a better Morlock-leader firece leather clad killing machine storm, though, but if the timeline is pre Yukio, and post growing out the mohawk, Iman would be it.
I couldn’t agree more. Iman would have made a perfect Storm.
What an awesome webite! You are a force of nature and I love it all! Your work is inspiring and fiercely original. Who you are and your life is as colorful as your beautiful tarot decks. You are the renaissance, Storm! So glad we met and became friends
Cosmic Love to you, Shar