X-Men: Storm's New Mission is Turning An Entire Planet Punk
Warning! Spoilers for X-Men Red #2ahead!
Ororo Munroe, Storm of the X-Men, has given herself a new mission: to make the planet Arakko punk. In this week’s X-Men Red #2, Storm debuts her Brotherhood of Arakko and reiterates that there are «no thrones on Arakko.» This approach highlights the key difference between Ororo’s squad and Abigail Brand’s X-Men Red team: solidarity and community with the Arakkii. In doing so, writer Al Ewing and artist Stefano Caselli have the chessboard set for quite the interesting study in anarchy and critique of police structures as X-Men Red continues.
For context, Brand is campaigning to be the most powerful person in the Sol system as head of S.W.O.R.D. and has strategically connected herself with ORCHIS, Krakoa, and extraterrestrial mercenary services in various capacities to achieve that goal. Still calling the planet Mars, Brand considers the Arakkii people as a pawn to be manipulated into submission. The primary tool for exerting that control is her X-Men Red unit. In log entries, Brand reveals that plans to use the X-Men Red team as a police force, fabricating conflicts for them to handle while their presence stirs discontent between Krakoa and Arakko. However, Brand failed to properly estimate Storm as an obstacle to her plans.
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During a Progenitors’ attack commissioned by Brand on an Arakkii clan of artists and poets, the X-Men Red team is floundering. Manifold has quit, Cable has been killed, and rather than successfully evacuate the area Vulcan has managed to stir the locals into an angry mob. Enter Storm and the Brotherhood of Arakko. Ororo immediately defuses Vulcan and asks those gathered if the
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