Warning: Spoilers for Demon Days: Rising Storm #1 ahead!

The wildly powerful X-Men known as Storm has lived many different lives throughout the several decades of Marvel Comics that she has appeared in, but one major question about Storm's powers and status continues to persist: Is Ororo Munroe a mutant, a Goddess, or both? In Peach Momoko's latest chapter of her newly iconic Demon Days series, Demon Days: Rising Storm #1, the Marvel Stormbreaker officially establishes Storm as a bonafide God in her Japanese-folklore inspired universe.

Ororo was first introduced in 1975's Giant-Size X-Men # 1, with writing by Len Wein and art by Dave Cockrum, as a member of Xavier's newest class of mutants, replacing the original X-Men team. Ororo has been established as being descended from a line of African priestesses, and is considered to be one of the X-Men's strongest mutants of all time, being recognized as an Omega-level mutant whose control over the weather and storms often rivals or surpasses that of Thor, an "official" God in the Marvel Universe. Storm has also been the Queen of Wakanda when she was married to T'Challa, and several times over the years has returned to Africa where she has been worshipped as a Goddess of Thunder.

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However, being worshipped as a God does not mean you actually are divinely gifted, so the fact that Storm appears as a fully fledged God in Demon Days: Rising Storm #1, with illustration and writing by Peach Momoko, is a meaningful moment for her character. This latest issue of the "Yashida Saga" within the Demon Days series sees the main character Mariko Yashida and Logan (Wolverine in wolf form!) face off against Momoko's versions of both Storm and Thor, who call each other "brother and sister," and are characterized as living embodiments of Japanese Shinto folk-Gods. Storm and Thor, as the two most powerful weather manipulators in the Marvel Universe, often end up teamed up together, and Storm even once harnessed the full power of the God of Thunder by utilizing the Asgardian hammer Stormbreaker. But, this is the first time they have both been recognized as deities as a duo.

Storm as a god in Demon Days: Rising Storm.

Peach Momoko's fresh design of Ororo first displays her as a very innocent and cute-looking "chibi" version of Storm, but once the battle against Mariko and Logan escalates, both Storm and Thor shed their human-looking bodies and become massive, otherworldly beings made of storms and lightning. The depictions of Thor and Storm as Japanese Gods is rooted in real life ancient folklore, with Peach Momoko and writer Zack Davisson breaking down the history of the Shinto deities Raijin the Thunder God and Fūjin the Wind God in the back of the issue. Depicting Ororo as a Goddess, without needing to debate about her mutant abilities or family lineage, is a meaningful way of further empowering the character of Storm and giving her the much-deserved reverence and respect that comes with Godhood.

The vicious fight between Mariko, Logan, and the two Gods ends with them realizing that they should not be fighting each other, and instead Storm and Thor safely deliver Mariko to her sadistic sister Ogin, hoping that Mariko can put a stop to the devious machinations of her twin. Upon arrival at Ogin's lair both Storm and Thor depart, and there is no guarantee that the two will be returning in the conclusion to the "Yashida Saga" Demon Days: Blood Feud #1. Regardless of the future of Storm in the Demon Days universe, it is truly refreshing to see a Marvel writer giving the X-Men's Ororo the attention and godly status that she so deserves, and hopefully Japanese-God Storm will return in a future Peach Momoko project after the success of Demon Days: Rising Storm #1.

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