With how much the recent Storm writer cited JJK as an inspiration, I think the recent solos demonstrate that the writer didn't understand how that character relates to Storm.

Before the first issue of Storm 2024 even dropped, writer Ayodele Murewa was directly comparing Storm with Satoru Gojo (a major character in Jujutsu Kaisen) and I think his friend even drew artwork of Storm doing Gojo poses or something. However, I think the way that Storm was written in the solo is almost the opposite of the way Gojo's character was used in his anime once you get past the surface level similarities.

On the surface, Storm and Gojo's characters really do share some similarities (White Hair & Blue Eyes that are a visible sign of powers they gained from their bloodline, they are extremely powerful characters within their settings), but the second you push past the surface you see that the similarities abruptly stop. The most obvious difference being that Storm is not the strongest being in the Marvel Universe (she's arguable among the strongest which is how she's depicted in the solo, but that's not the same as Gojo's status which is more like Thor or Phoenix than Storm). But the differences that seriously stand out to me is *the relationship with their powers and how their powers affect their relationships with other people*. Storm's relationship with her powers (not Eternity, *her powers*) was underutilized and constantly put on the backburner with the most interiority we get from her being her monologue to Infinity while she was fighting her. Additionally, the way how Storm's powers affect the ways how other people see her is... bizarrely nonexistent?

All of that is in direct contradiction to the way Gojo (the supposed inspiration for the 2024 solo) is actually written. Gojo being the strongest character in his setting informs his *everything* in a way that it can't for Ororo since her most famous story arc was where she learned to live *without* her powers (one of the most famous quotes from JJK is basically Gojo's best friend wondering if he would be the cocky and frankly arrogant person he is without his powers, and the answer is heavily implied to be no). In fact, it's a plot point that Gojo can basically do whatever he wants and none of his allies can truly say no to him because none of them can stop Gojo (Gojo literally stops the main character from being executed early on because he's Gojo and whatever he says goes). In contrast, Murewa writes Storm as being kind of compliant (when she get's arrested, she doesn't break out even though she knows the alien investigating her is corrupt in contrast to her breaking out of FBI custody the last time she got arrested). Another thing is that Gojo is so ridiculously overpowered by the standards of his setting that the other sorcerers see him as almost like a monster and his relationships with have suffered for it, but the way that other people interact with Storm in this comic it's like they are *less afraid* of her than they would be in a normal X-Men comic (Kitty Pryde showed more fear of Storm when she got a mohawk than a single human did in this solo).

And the thing is: Storm as Gojo or whatever *could* have worked. An interpretation of Storm that more openly throws her weight around, that protects mutants around the world from the *sheer fear* that anti-mutant groups have about fighting her; a Storm that even other mutants are scared of her and see her as another level above them; a Storm that strong-arms people into doing what she wants with the threat of her using her powers on them (note: she's done this at least twice in the past); a Storm that the other X-Men are slowly struggling to really relate to as her Goddess title becomes reality and maybe *even they* become scared of her; **all of that could have worked**. But that could have said something Bad^(TM) about Storm, which the recent solo really shied away from.