Ladies’ Night – The Uncanny X-Men #244 – Danger Room #283

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1. Regarding House of X and Powers of X – you don’t need to know anything other than the basics of who the characters are. If you have questions after reading it, you’re supposed to have questions. It’s all new stuff.

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2. Storm being 17 in this issue (#244) presents some problems, Jeremy. Adam points out one of these problems (the X-women are admitted to a bar/adult entertainmet club). There are also some other clues throughout continuity which suggests she is much older than 17 by the end of the 1980’s:
   > Her romance with Forge — who is at least in his 30s by this point (he’s a Vietnam War vet). Storm is likely not his age, but no way she’s a minor when they hook up. The dynamics of that relationship were depicted as mature, not one that is characterized by a severe age imbalance. Not to mention this would have created conflict in Forge — since he felt remorse and guilt for causing Storm to lose her powers, wouldn’t this same moral compass have registered a similar guilt if Storm was indeed underage when they pursued a romance?
   > If she is 17 in #244, that would make her younger than half of the New Mutants by the time this issue came out — 1989. Cannonball and Dani Moonstar are both 17 shorty after they became students back in 1983 (confirmed by editor’s comments in New Mutants #35) and Karma was even older than them (about 19). No way that the pee-wee mutants have seniority over Storm, leader of the X-Men.
   > Also, the New Mutants acted their age, talked their age, and displayed many of the idiosyncratic qualities of teenagers. Storm never had these qualities, even when she first appeared. She was depicted as a peer to Jean and spoke/behaved with the same level of maturity. If Scott and Jean were about 24 during the Dark Phoenix Saga in ’79/’80 (revealed by Jean’s tombstone in Uncanny X-Men #138) and were 17 or 18 a hundred issues earlier, an age somewhere in the mid-20’s seems about right for Storm by the time #244 takes place, a hundred issues after Dark Phoenix.

   There are some more clues here and there, but these have some compelling clout.

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