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When writing Storm, what is the most important characteristic you strive to convey?

-Alex

Al Ewing: Strength of character, I think. A core understanding of what is right and wrong [and] certain unassailable standards she sets for herself. She questions herself but always against that core framework. Is she living up to who she should be? If we take that further, one of those core tenets is that she will not accept for others things that would be unacceptable for herself -- like being ruled, exploited, [or] boxed in. So I keep that steel core in her in mind as I'm writing - it was a relief in some ways to write #11 and give her a few pages to actually relax and be happy without the world crashing down.
-- CBR interview

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"What does strength mean? That's one of the questions we're asking. So far we've kind of seen the Arakki from only one side, through some unreliable narrators – for example, it's really interesting that Isca's become the mouthpiece for Arakko, given that she fought for Amenth and Annihilation from the start of the war right up until X of Swords. So my starting point with Arakko was that there had to be a little more to them than we'd been shown. They're an alien society, shaped by thousands of years of war and by the laws of Apocalypse's wife, Genesis – she was a heavy influence on their culture, which, given that she seemed to be a more stringent version of Apocalypse when they met up, probably isn't great. But then again, after she led the Arakki for millennia, she turned against them under Annihilation's influence and condemned them to over a century of imprisonment and torture at the hands of people like Tarn The Uncaring, so there's probably a large proportion of the population who aren't so on board with her view of the world, especially the ones who were born in the prisons and never knew anything else. So Arakko's a more complicated place than it looks, and it's got a lot of history and a lot of pain – but one thing it doesn't pretend to be is a utopia. It's just a place, and people live there, and we're going to meet some of them."
-- Al Ewing

"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Uranos is the living embodiment of the world's worst grandparent, hammering on the ceiling, shouting "TURN IT DOWN! ALL MODERN MUSIC IS JUST NOISE!"

Though Uranos may be the other way around. He doesn't want tunes. He just wants white noise. He would have nodded appreciatively when Atari Teenage Riot used to encore with 45 minutes of static."

-- Kieron Gillen

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