Storm: Lifedream #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeStorm: Lifedream #1 marks a double milestone: it arrived in January 2025 to honor Ororo Munroe's 50th anniversary as a Marvel character—first introduced in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (February 1975) by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum—and stands as the first Marvel's Voices anthology one-shot ever built entirely around a single character rather than a broad thematic cast. The book is also the first Marvel anthology in which every creative team member across every segment is Black, a structural first for the publisher's Voices line. Rooted in the storytelling legacy of beloved earlier Storm showcases such as Uncanny X-Men #186 ('Lifedeath'), the issue deliberately positions itself within a fifty-year narrative arc for a character who was already a groundbreaking figure as one of the earliest prominent Black female superheroes in mainstream comics.
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The project grew out of Marvel's ongoing Marvel's Voices initiative, which Angélique Roché had launched as a podcast in 2018 to amplify Black and underrepresented voices across the Marvel ecosystem; she served as both writer and consulting editor on Lifedream, working alongside editor Sarah Brunstad. Marvel announced the one-shot in October 2024, with Roché and Brunstad deliberately structuring its visual and narrative references to echo Storm's illustrated history—including a deliberate callback to Barry Windsor-Smith's iconic splash in 'Lifedeath,' which inspired the issue's very title. The book's FOC (Final Order Cutoff) date was December 9, 2024, and it shipped to comic shops on January 29, 2025, ahead of Black History Month in February.
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- Released January 29, 2025 (cover-dated March 2025); a 31-page Marvel's Voices one-shot, rated T+, published under editor Sarah Brunstad.
- Timed to Storm's 50th anniversary: Ororo Munroe first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (February 1975, cover-dated May 1975), created by writer Len Wein and penciller Dave Cockrum.
- First Marvel's Voices anthology one-shot ever centered exclusively on a single character, rather than a themed ensemble cast.
- First Marvel anthology in which all creative teams across all segments are Black—a structural first for the Voices line.
- Written by four writers: Angélique Roché (Marvel's Voices podcast creator), Eisner Award-winner John Jennings (Kindred, Silver Surfer: Ghost Light), best-selling novelist Brittney Morris (SLAY), and Curtis Baxter.
- Art by Karen S. Darboe (Bloodline: Daughter of Blade), Alitha E. Martinez (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Edwin Galmon, and Charles Stewart III—with Charles Stewart III making his Marvel Comics debut in this issue.
- Structured as a prologue, three chapters, and an epilogue: John Jennings and Edwin Galmon handle the framing prologue; Roché and Martinez tackle Chapter 1 and the epilogue; Brittney Morris and Charles Stewart III handle Chapter 2; Curtis Baxter and Karen S. Darboe handle Chapter 3.
- Issue includes an interview conducted by Roché with Allison Sealy-Smith, who voices Storm in X-Men '97, as a back-matter bonus. Four covers were produced: by Taurin Clarke (main), Karen S. Darboe, Olivier Coipel, and Lucas Werneck (artist of Storm's concurrent 2024 solo series).
- The title 'Lifedream' is a deliberate echo of Uncanny X-Men #186 ('Lifedeath,' 1984), a defining Storm solo story later adapted for X-Men '97.
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