![]() ![]() She beat Callisto, she became leader of the Morlocks, she took on the leathers. So the idea of Storm looking like a punk, which had a couple logical steps to it. But that punk sensibility of rebellion - in The Wild One, someone asks Marlon Brando, “What are you rebelling against?” He says, “Whadda ya got?” It was kind of that sensibility when punk first hit the scene. Everybody was really lean and in all black. ![]() There was a club downtown called CBGB, where you had Richard Hell, Television, and Patty Smith. Now this is 1980s New York City, so punk is exploding all over the place. We’re sick of the wind rider look.” And so they decided to do this. ![]() I don’t really remember what happened, but I think that it was just, “Let’s give her a new look. ![]() Paul Smith rode motorcycles and sometimes Paul and I would be someplace and he’d be in his leathers and he’d be drawing at a bar while we were talking over a plot and drinking beer. It was sort of a crazy idea that they went with. I think Louise Simonson was the editor of the X-Men and I was her assistant when Storm decided to go punk. People used to come into the office and you went to lunch a lot and yacked and made diagrams.Ĭhris would always do these little drawings about his plan. Comics have changed quite a lot since the ‘80s, which was pre-internet. The ‘80s were this decade when me, Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, and at this time, Paul Smith would go to lunch constantly and talk ideas. ![]()
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