[.ca] X-Treme X-Men Volume 7: Storm - The Arena TPB (ISBN 0785109366)

a mediocre mini-series featuring storm:
this book collects x-treme x-men #36-39. this story arc was orig going to be a limited series, but they made it part of the core series, prob. to increase sales b/c the story is so mediocre and full of holes. claremont gets bogged down in set-up and doesn't develop the actual story nearly enough. the story is so quick and shallow the only reaction you'll get is "huh? so what?" it's another arena story which claremont has already done in other series, this time featuring storm. storm is a great character, but she doesn't do anything new here. at least we get to see some old favs, like callisto (w/ some great new upgrades), strong guy, and yukio. masque is the main villain. kordey's art isn't his best and his average art is really unremarkable. he does have some nice costume designs, though, and as a bonus this TPB includes some of k's design sketches of costumes and his floorplan for rogue's house (although rogue is barely in this series).