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contain spoilers for Immortal Thor # 4!InThor’slatest adventure , Stormhas proven that she ’s worthy of holding Mjolnir and , as a result , theX - Men’sown goddess has been given an awesome design suitable of her status . It ’s not the first metre that Storm ’s philander with this specific edition of divinity , but it ’s concrete proof that she ’s more than fit for the rubric of Thor . This is only the a la mode in a retentive origin of proofs that Storm is the goddess she ’s proclaimed to be .
InThe Immortal Thor # 4(written by Al Ewing , penciled and ink by MartÍn Cóccolo , colored by Matthew Wilson and lettered by VC ’s Joe Sabino ) Storm declare Mjolnir and claims the power of Thor , proving her worthiness beyond all doubtand getting a dandy Thor design to go along with it . In the issue , Thor recruits Storm , alongside a bevy of other worthy heroes , play hot potato with Mjolnir to power each of them up . As a Thor , Storm now has a new versionof her Stormcaster costume , with the same headdress and rough design as the Graeco-Roman costume , but with the addition of prosperous accents and her latest haircut .
Storm becoming the God of Thunder is n’t even that Brobdingnagian a jump for the character , who has always styled herself as a goddess .
Storm is More than Worthy Enough to be a Goddess
Since her very first appearance all the way back in 1975’sGiant - Size X - Men # 1(written by Len Wein , pencil by Dave Cockrum , inked by Cockrum and Peter Iro , colored by Glynis Oliver and lettered by John Costanza)Storm has been discover as a " goddess , " the character she take on as a young cleaning woman as the protector of her ancestral tribe from Kenya . Professor X insisted inGiant - Size hug drug - human # 1that Storm wasonly a mutant , but that paternalistic statement did n’t really deal the extent of her likely immortal .
In 1985’sX - gentleman’s gentleman Annual # 9(written by Chris Claremont , penciled by Art Adams , inked by Adams , Al Gordan and Mike Mignola , colour by Petra Scotese and letter by Tom Orzechowski)Storm fuck off her own Asgardian hammer , Stormcaster . However , Ororo rejects it after realize Loki has gifted it to her for evil . Decades later in 2011,X - Men : To Serve and Protect # 3’sstory " violent storm Front " ( written by Marc Guggenheim , penciled by Eric Koda , inked by Danny Miki , colour by Sonia Oback and letter by Dave Sharpe ) sees Stormcaster paying back . Thor and Storm simultaneously use Mjolnir to destroy the false hammer . However , until now it was never clear whether Storm was really worthy of handle Mjolnir by herself .
Where Does Divinity Come From in the Marvel Universe?
A authoritative question in both fiction and philosophy is whether gods are create through worship . Loki : Agent of Asgard # 17(written by Al Ewing , illustrated by Lee Garbett , colored by Antonia Fabela and lettered by Clayton Cowles ) Loki broach the question of whetherThose Who Sit Above in Shadow , the self - described God of the Asgardian Gods , were created because the Asgardians believed them into existence much like humanity potentially believed the Asgardians to life . IfStormhas worshipper and follower , then the line between humanity and divinity theoretically blurs , even before mentioning how theX - Men’sown goddess is suitable of the title ofThor .
The Immortal Thor#4is available now from Marvel Comics .
