X-Men 186 is a special issue for a few reasons. It's 40 pages when most comics are less than 25. It's pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith, a legend of line work, a real fine artist among cartoonists. It's a story mostly between two people: the recently depowered Storm and Forge, the mutant engineer who made the weapon that took her powers, but she doesn't know that. It reads like a one-act play, and it has time to work the corners when most comics are fastballs across the plate. Something horrible has happened to a character already in turmoil, and we get to see her process it in a pace rarely seen in monthly comics.
Meanwhile Rogue is pursuing the feds who tried to use the weapon on her so they can point the way to Storm. ALSO the alien Dire Wraiths wants those same feds to point the way to Forge to destroy the weapon that could also foil their invasion plans.
I drew my take on the panel where Storm watches a thunderstorm she can no longer feel in her bones or bend to her whims.
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