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Indiana Jones as a Teenage Mutant African Urchin.

Published 2005

My God. I wanted to hate this so badly. Storm as an 8-year-old? No powers? Running around Cairo as a street rat like Aladdin? It all just seemed SO on the nose for your ONE X-Man from Africa. You couldn’t be any more creative?

And to be completely honest, on those bases, I do still dislike it somewhere deep down. But then it became too charmingly Indiana-Jones-esque, right down to the villain in a white suit whose quest for power is his undoing. Also with Storm being so young here I assumed we would get no X-Men or powers, but we got a little bit of both!

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I also was getting major Solo: A Star Wars Story vibes from this book due to a special magic gem that looked suspiciously like the one Ororo wears around her neck in several versions of her costume:

But then it gets completely removed from the table. I got a real chuckle out of the fact that they just said “Na, actually, its gone now, don’t worry about it.” It would be like showing Han Solo’s iconic gun in Solo and then dropping it on Mustafar from orbit.

I can’t recommend this because its not very relevant to… anything really. It’s just supplemental material if you really like Storm. But also it has the same vibe as watching Saturday Morning Cartoons™. So I don’t not recommend it.