Storm, Vol. 2: Thunder War

Storm by Murewa Ayodele

by Murewa Ayodele, Lucas Werneck (Artist), Luciano Vecchio (Artist)

Earth's mightiest mutant, now headlining her own series! After a mission to Brazil goes horribly wrong, Ororo faces a a legendary encounter with Thor - and five other gods of thunder! But after she assisted the fugitive Charles Xavier, Storm is put under investigation by the F.B.I.! How much more can our hero endure? Meanwhile, Maggott enjoys having to run the Storm Sanctuary solo - using the opportunity to organize an MMA-style battle of Marvel powerhouses! But when the actions of Eternity kick-start the Thunder War, Ororo must face Hadad - the first storm god! With Eternity absent, she is stripped of the Eternal Storm and is no longer one of the most powerful beings in the universe! Nevertheless, all hope rests on her shoulders. The only way reality as we know it ends is over Storm's dead body! Collecting STORM (2024) #6-12.

Genres: Comics, X Men, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Marvel

160 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2025

Reviews

[Brandon Daniels]

I was unfamiliar with Murewa Ayodele before this, but I will be checking out anything else they do for the foreseeable future. This Storm series ends with an arc that feels like the biggest crossover event Marvel has done since Secret Wars. Ayodele is brimming with big ideas and clearly has a deep knowledge of continuity. This reminds me of Al Ewing’s Defenders or Donny Cates Thanos series.

The breakneck pace is a little disarming; it often feels like you missed a tie-in issue of some sort. Several new characters are introduced, some big hitters are brought in for just a few panels, and a few characters die in shockingly gruesome ways.

And the art by series regular Lucas Wernec is fantastic. Some of the new characters are particularly interesting in part because of their character designs. Artists Mario Santoro and Luciano Vecchio have similar enough styles and capabilities that it doesn’t distract when they fill in. Each of them handles the many challenging things the scripts ask of them, including huge, cosmic scenes full of a lot of characters, quite well.

[Paul]

2.75 stars

[Dakota Morgan]

Thunder War hits the accelerator and doesn't let up, to the point that it feels like pages are missing. Aside from a brief interlude of Storm being interrogated by government agents about having harbored Xavier, the book is mostly made up of hard-to-understand battles between Storm (ft. Eternity) and other thunder gods from across the cosmos.

And there are so many thunder gods! And they have like, a court. Thunder War basically introduces a whole new element of the Marvel universe in a slim few pages. It's exhausting and heady, though quite exciting as it happens. Hell if I recall the details though.

[Nate Deprey]

Maybe a little too epic? Awesome for Storm to have her own series but boy is this story a little too reality spanning.

[scottie]

i wish i could have liked this story, but that would require me to understand it. the art at least made it possible to enjoy the pages as i flipped through them. i enjoyed the parts where storm was being interrogated (can i hope that we'll eventually find out why they wanted storm dead?), but we quickly leave that behind for cosmic shenanigans, and i think you would have to be a speedster to comprehend the pacing happening here. there is way too much time-line jumping, FAR too many characters, and we seem to just skip over events of extreme import (you're seriously telling me we don't get to see what storm does with abraxas, how she found out it was eternity possessing her, and how she got him out the first time?? SERIOUSLY??). and the written out sound effects! that kind of corny nonsense would make sense for deadpool, but STORM? there were enough pieces here that i did like to keep it from a one star, but it's been a long time since i've read a comic that had me going "what the hell is going on??" the way this one did, and that's not a good thing

[André Habet]

This spotlight series on Storm is fantastic though I personally enjoy Storm as human more than Storm as cosmic god. By the end of this arc, it seems we are in place for more of the former and I’m looking forward to that.

[Matt Sautman]

Storm’s cosmic ascendancy grows in this volume to a point where I do not think the character could ever simply return to being an X-Men again. At this point, she has become as much a space-based character as Beta Ray Bill or Silver Surfer while the series itself is reminiscent of Al Ewing’s Ultimates.

[Joey Nardinelli]

What a come down from the previous collection. This TPB has to do the unreasonable duty of tying together elements from X-Manhunt and bits of Doom’s crossover and then all this Storm God War stuff. I don’t mind the scope going epic and heady, but the writing makes it really hard to follow who is who and why they’re doing what they’re doing among a smashing together of characters from all sorts of Marvel pantheons. I’m not only bummed at how much this backburners Storm, but it also wastes Maggot, Manifold, Bishop, and Dr Voodoo before the story wraps on a cliffhanger. I’ll come back for me, but I really hope we get back to the more tightly focused elements that deal with mortal affairs.

[Justin Biondo]

This started off really strong but went off the rails real quick. But less in a bad way and more in the way that there was an entire arc that was squeezed into 3 issues and just didn’t mesh well together for me personally

[Adam Fisher]

Not nearly as good as the first Volume, but still amazing. Storm needs her own title for much longer.
Highlights:
- We get the tie-in to X-Manhunt, which I have read and loved.
- The battle from last Volume continues with Thor, Storm, and various Storm Gods from other Pantheons... really just showcasing how much of a badass Storm is
- The government makes its case for arresting Storm in a two-part story. They are upset for her harboring Xavier. She tries to contact her lawyer, She-Hulk, but she is fighting in a tournament that Maggott is holding at Storm Sanctuary while Storm is gone. Eventually, she gets Storm out of the hands of the FBI
- 3 part "Thunder War" storyline was a little confusing. Felt like I was missing parts of the story, but eventually got the gist. Hadad, the First Storm God is possessed by Oblivion, and Storm currently has the powers of Eternity. Oblivion and Eternity are the children of the One Above All and their squabble plays out in Hadad vs Storm.
- After the War, Storm expels Eternity from her body and wants to never be involved like that again. But there is a tease for something referred to as "The War Above All". We'll see when that happens.

Overall, a great read. This one finishes the second part of "From the Ashes" for me. (I've divided it mentally into 3 parts) I'll take a brief break from the X-Books before tackling the rest.
Recommend.

[Chris Lemmerman]

Okay, this is my jam. The first volume of Storm was very impressive, and this second one elevates it to an even higher level, both in terms of storytelling and in terms of the fact that Storm's punching literal gods in the face.

There's a sweeping story here, one that's more involved than even I expected, with callbacks to characters and concepts from all across the Marvel Universe, and yet it still manages to find time for some laughs as well, with Storm and Maggott's dialogue especially hilarious. It's a fine balancing act, trying to tell a cosmic level story at the same time as you're having a wrestling tournament, and yet, this book manages it.

I was a bit worried when I saw so many artists on the title as well, but it actually works really well - I could barely tell when the artist shifted in the final three issues which all share artists, and they all do an impressive job with the insane ideas thrown their way.

[Craig]

Guess I'm an outlier here, but I thought this was pretty terrible. The story is very disjointed and poorly-told, with all kinds of weird flashbacks that don't seem to add any information. Also, all kinds of weird humor that doesn't really track (the sound effects are right out of Mortal Kombat, for instance). I don't know who the weird aliens were who were debriefing Ororo or why they later wanted to kill her. Too many different storm gods and thunder gods and none of it made much sense. Also, the difference between the artists is fairly jarring, enough to pull me out of the story. Just too much going on, none of it explained very clearly. This is pretty much a failure in my book.

[Julie]

The second collected volume in Storm's solo run also does not disappoint. It has a stunning art style, entertaining storyline, and beautiful paneling, but I sure hope you paid attention to the celestial family tree, because your knowledge about different entities' alliances is being tested here.

So before reading, study up and reread the masterpiece that is volume one.

[Chad]

Pretty, pretty good as Larry David would say. Storm merges with Eternity to become the Eternal Storm and fights a bunch of other thunder gods. Looking forward to see what Ayodele has cooked up for vol. 2 once X Years from Now finishes.

[Evan Peterson]

I

[Aisling]

2.5

[Archos]

One of the best storm books out there.

[Scott A. Love]

I think Storm is my favorite X-Man now...

[Alejandro Dodds]

This comic book is amazing. It takes some of biggest cosmic characters in Marvel and puts Storm in the center of it all, showing that she can hold her own amongst these gods and universal forces.

[Jason]

Love Storm and the first graphic novel in this series but this was just a confusing mess. There was so much going on I just started speed reading through it. It was not good.

[Rachel]

I knew what was going on for about four pages of this; the rest was incomprehensible cosmic stuff. At least the art is very pretty.

[Talon]

I wanted to like this but it's just so confusing. The art is incredible and sure I didn't read the prior volume, but this felt so disconnected as a collection. So many thrown here and there only to be forgotten or solved in a matter of panels! I didn't even know what was Storm's focus by the end of the novel aside from her reminding everyone she's a goddess. I felt she was way too strong in this. I love Storm as a character a lot but this felt like a child with "nuh uh I have a shield over me that's immune to damage" type rules writing this story because this made no sense to me.