Happy Black History Month! I want to celebrate by sharing my original portrait of one of the greatest OG black superheroes ever: Storm ⛈️
Storm, whose real name is Ororo Munroe, is a powerful mutant and member of the X-Men. She is also a member of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, and has been worshipped as a goddess and Queen of Wakanda. Storm is one of the first Black comic book characters, and the first Black female character to play a major or supporting role in Marvel and DC Comics.
Storm debuted in 1975’s GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. The issue opened with Professor X recruiting Nightcrawler, Wolverine, and Banshee before shifting focus to Kenya where people supplicated themselves to Ororo for help in getting their crops to grow. She took to the sky on waves of wind and brought forth the storm.
Artist’s Note: She’s always been my favorite X-Woman since I was a child as I grew up loving her from not only reading the comics but watching her in action from the original X-Men cartoon from the 90s. Even watching “X-Men: Evolution” and of course the @xmenmovies! 🙌☺️✨
By the way, here’s my WIP video I made on @procreateapp!
JJ Jameson is so impressed with Peter's photos of Spiderman that now he's sending Peter on a new assignment: photos of the elusive Batman. Not a single newspaper has been able to get a photo that isn't shitty cryptid level of blurry, and Jameson has decided that the Daily Bugle with get the prestige of having the first clear photo of the bat menace, and will be able to hold it over the heads of the incompetent Gotham papers.
So he sends Peter to Gotham for a week with instructions not to come back until he's got that photo. Peter, unfortunately, can't come up with a good excuse as to why he can't get Batman photos the same way he gets Spiderman photos, so he sets off to Gotham, confident that he can probably get at least one decent photo, less confident about what the bats will do to him if he does.
why complain to me? complain to this country you love so much. the righteous u.s. of a, the country that champions human rights, that considers itself the beacon of rights, shining on an unregenerate world--don't they consider the right to a job, a home, and healthcare, human rights?