Storm: My Eternal Comic Book Hero!

in #fiction6 years ago (edited)

This series of science-fiction and fantasy comic books is mainly known here in The Netherlands so it may be new to al lot of Steemians who read this. I hope so, because you're about to discover the most epic comic book adventure ever told!

Drawn mostly by its creator Don Lawrence, Storm is an adventure of cosmic proportions that started in the late 1970's. The main protagonist, Storm, starts as an astronaut from Earth whose ship get's lost in Jupiter's Great Red Spot where some mysterious wormhole-like tear in the fabric of space transports him to an entirely different world than the one we know. He soon meets his partner for the rest of his journeys, the lovely Ember.


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Storm & Ember about to kick butt! source: AbeBooks

I'll just show some of Lawrence's artwork and mention some of the titles that appeared in this series to give you a taste of the magic that held me captive for so many hours. Maybe it's also good to mention that Storm is nothing like The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, also created by Lawrence and far more widely spread around the world.

The first series is called "The Chronicles Of The Deep World", with titles like "The Last Fighter" and the key story "The Legend Of Yggdrasil", in which Storm and Ember return to Earth in some alternate timeline with intelligent Dinosaurs that are about to become extinct.


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source: From the Sorcerer's Skull

The next series, "The Chronicles Of Pandarve", take our heroes to the very center of the multiverse, starting with "Pandarve's Pirates" and containing other tantalizing stories like "The Living Planet", "The Von Neumann-Machine", "The Genesis Formula" and "The Armageddon Traveler". Lawrence is so masterful when it comes to weaving existing scientific theories with wild fantasy adventures!


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The Von Neumann-Machine. source: Don Lawrence Collection

Storm is sold as a slave in the Pirates story but like the eternal superhero he is, he's not worried at all:


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source: From the Sorcerer's Skull

Pandarve is followed by "The Chronicles Of The Between Time", "The Chronicles Of The Outer Ring" and "The Chronicles Of Ember". Even today the series continues, here in The Netherlands at least, making Storm my eternal comic book hero. Unfortunately I haven't been able to follow all of it yet; I stopped at the end of the Outer Ring stories, but after writing this post I'll be on the lookout for copies of all the stories. The ones I had got lost and I mostly read them as part of the Dutch Eppo weekly comics magazine anyway...


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The Living Planet. source: storm.nl

I hope you liked this (re-) introduction to Storm and Ember. It might also have given you some insight into my psyche, why I'm such a hopeless dreamer :-) I don't mind being that though, as I'm convinced that there's not enough dreaming done in our busy lives...

Did you know about Storm already? If not: what are your first impressions? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions below!


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