Creating a "Storm"

I just got off the phone with Eric Jerome Dickey. He's a best-selling novelist who is making his first foray into comics with "Storm," a six-issue miniseries from Marvel. Dickey is a big comics fan who, like the rest of us, will be at his friendly neighborhood comic-book shop today for the week's new comics. "Storm" will explore the first meeting between a young Storm and the Black Panther before he was the Black Panther. I'll have more on Dickey and "Storm" in a future Comics Fan column. (At right is the cover to issue No. 2 of "Storm.)