Rogue Storm #1 Review

 

Writer: Murewa Ayodele

Artist: Roland Boschi

Colorist: Neeraj Menon

Letterer: Travis Lanham

Cover Artists: Humberto Ramos & Edgar Delgado; Elizabeth Torque & Federico Blee; Iván Talavera; Karen S Darboe & Jesus Aburtov; Rickie Yagawa & Tamra Bonvillain; Stefano Caselli & David Curiel

Designer: Jay Bowen

Editors: Lindsey Cohick, Annalise Bissa, Tom Brevoort & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Price: $3.99

Release Date: October 15, 2025

 

Rogue has traveled with Gateway, Warpath, Fantomex, Iceman, and Akujin to the Sahara Desert. Snow covers the vast land of dunes. The Uncanny X-Force must prevent Storm from unleashing further destruction on Earth's ecosystem. Rogue doesn't want to kill her friend. But like Rogue, Storm has changed. Can Rogue kill her best friend? And why is Storm attacking the world she sought to protect? Let’s leap into Rogue Storm #1 and see!

 

Story

As Rogue rides through the snow, Gateway hovers alongside. He reminds Rogue that this is necessary. Yet the proposition seems overwhelming. Sentinels guard an ice fortress surrounded by wrecked bodies and vehicles. While Akujin hungers for the opportunity to kill Storm, the rest seem less confident. Yet they charge into battle regardless, firing tank-like cannons mounted to their steeds. When one of the rhino-like animals speaks, it asserts its readiness for the challenge. Yet Storm's guardians will draw first blood.

 

 

 

While Rogue Storm #1 takes place five years into the Age of Revelation, it also revisits events three years previous. An accident cost Rogue her husband and her powers. Storm consoled Rogue and helped her get back on her feet again. Her friend enhanced her fighting ability. But Storm could not replace Rogue's sense of uniqueness.

 

Murewa Ayodele’s story demonstrates how people can rebuild their lives after suffering incomparable losses. It's also a powerful reminder of how much we can change as we journey through life. But mostly, it’s an exhilarating battle between titanic forces and underdogs. 

 

 

 

Art

Roland Boschi opens Rogue Storm #1 with glimpses of the burning Amazon forest, the destruction of Atlanta, and ridges of land emerging from the snow and clouds like the spine of the world. But the most telling reminder of Storm’s power is the first panel, which shows Mjolnir orbiting Earth with bits of the broken hammer drifting nearby. Storm’s new home also inspires awe, with giant metal guardians surrounding a heap of Pick-Up Sticks. But a glimpse inside reveals that the ice palace is no Fortress of Solitude.

 

 

 

Neeraj Menon lavishes a bright palette on this snow-bound battle. The titanic guardians prove faster than AT-AT Walkers and lend scenes an epic grandeur. Yet the Human-sized crystal killer seems everywhere at once. Red contrasts with green in this light-blue land of stark sunlight. While Rogue wears red, the winged warrior spills it. The sentient steeds roar as they charge, wearing green saddles and armor. These two colors symbolize what Rogue has suffered in Rogue Storm #1. 

 

 

 

Travis Lanham fills white narrative boxes and dialogue balloons with large black uppercase letters. A stylized white font identifies time and space. The creatures speak into irregular balloons, while Iceman’s rage swells and turns blue. Sound effects make this story about killing a god crackle and boom, while heroes work together to leap into combat and smash their titanic opponents. Thanks to Marvel Comics for providing a review copy.

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

As X-Force attempts deicide, and Storm’s guardians intend decimation, an angry god divides her mind among her guardians. Rogue Storm #1 hints at how Revelation has achieved mastery over other Omega-level Mutants and suggests that Rogue’s situation may not be unique.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch. 

Binary #1 Review

 

Writer: Stephanie Phillips

Artist: Giada Belviso

Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer: Travis Lanham

Cover Artists: Rickie Yagawa; David Nakayama; Francesco Mobili & Moreno Dinisio; Iván Talavera; Jeremy Wilson

Designer: Jay Bowen

Editors: Lindsey Cohick, Annalise Bissa, Tom Brevoort & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Price: $3.99

Release Date: October 8, 2025

 

In Beverly Massachusetts, Hank and Cecelia are mounting an insurrection. Like Kraglin, Cecelia dislikes turning mutineer. But Hank insists it is time. Carol Danvers has given them no choice. Even if Carol dies, it's a small price to pay to regain their freedom. Why have Hank and Cecelia embraced terrorism? And how does life in their town differ from that in the rest of the Revelation Territories? Let's slip on some shades, leap into Binary #1, and see!

 

Story

In Amazing X-Men #1, Magneto and the X-Men have transported Scott Summers' consciousness through time. Not having lived through the preceding ten years, Scott wonders what happened to Jean Grey. Sadly, many have died since Revelation unleashed a mutative virus. Most of them were Humans lacking Mutant DNA to activate. But since then, Mutants have arisen against Revelation's rule. Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation, strips dissenters of their ability to communicate. Those who take up arms against him face harsher penalties.

 

Like some of the renegade X-Men who abducted Cyclops and Beast's consciousnesses in a desperate act to bolster their revolution, Jean Grey has also died. In Stephanie Phillips' story, the Phoenix Force passed into Carol Danvers. When the mutative virus began activating Mutants and shifting nature into overdrive, Carol used it to erect a barrier around her hometown and protect the inhabitants from the effects of the virus.

 

 

 

After Hank, Cecelia, and their friends launch their attack, Binary #1 winds the clock back to the days preceding the attack. The inhabitants of Beverly have gathered for a town hall meeting. But instead of discussing how they can improve living conditions in their town, they express their frustrations over the limitations. Hank is a leading voice in the chorus of discontent. But everyone yearns for a return to life before the lockdown.

 

While Binary #1 reveals why Hank has become an agitator, it’s easy to empathize with the townspeople’s frustration. Carol Danvers may not use her telepathy to control them like Revelation does his Angel of Death. Still, she regulates everything that comes into their town. The virus struck ten years ago. Yet the townspeople still live in a cage, unable to see the world outside, or experience anything that could rejuvenate them. And any time they do anything wrong, Carol can call upon the powers of the Phoenix to punish them for their infractions.

 

 

 

Art

Wires hang over the cracked streets and the houses in disrepair. Hank, Cecilia, and their comrades take cover behind a salvaged car. While Hank wears a trenchcoat, Cecelia sports an X symbol on each shoulder. All carry guns while awaiting the outcome of their initial attack. 

 

 

 

Giada Belviso shows the townspeople's frustration and outrage as they air their complaints in Binary #1. Carol’s long blonde hair, perhaps uncut since lockdown began, accentuates her sharp features. Standing next to the mayor, Carol frowns and remonstrates clad in blue, black, and red. The townspeople may have elected Abi. Still, she stands beside Carol wearing green slacks and a jacket, and black boots and a tie. 

 

 

 

Rachelle Rosenberg imbues the town hall with a sickly green. The overhead lighting illuminates the speakers’ faces but often struggles to penetrate the madding crowd. When Carol Danvers grows angry, her hair turns bright yellow, and her body orange and white. Hovering above them, she turns the surrounding air orange, like Revelation exerting his will upon his subjects.

 

Travis Lanham places bold black time/space markers in gilt frames. Black uppercase dialogue inhabits white balloons and narrative boxes. Carol Danver’s thoughts appear as white uppercase letters in red boxes. The letters grow bold for intonation. Anger swells words and deforms balloons. Sound effects hail an illicit encounter, and Carol’s determination to protect her hometown. Thanks to Marvel Comics for providing a review copy. 

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

While Revelation’s mutative virus evokes stories from the Biblical book of Genesis, Carol Danvers faces a situation akin to Moses in the Book of Exodus. The townspeople of Beverly, Massachusetts may not be wandering in the desert. Still, they exist on the manna Carol gives them. Faced with little to excite them or enrich their lives, the people Carol Danvers shields from Revelation’s virus wonder if life might be better under his rule in Binary #1.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.