While everyone was congregating , the uncles and aunts talking story and the kids running around on the field, I played introverted anti-social kid and drifted off to a shady area and began reading my comics. My cousin saw me siting under a tree, and asked, "Hey, what's that you're reading?" I proudly gestured to my stack of comics and said it was my FAVORITE comic, The Uncanny X-MEN!"Intrigued, she said, "that sounds interesting...can I take a look at them?"
Handing it over, I saw her immediately take a look at the cover of my newly-purchased issue #127, and then turning the cover to show me, she quizzically pointed at Storm and said, "But this is a LADY."
Ehhh? "Ummm...Yeah, but she's still a member of the team. " She frowned and looked at the cover again, and said "But the group is called X-MEN."
"Um...yeah." I said.
At that point my brothers came up to me and told me they were ready to do some fishing in the canal off to the side of the park, so I left her there reading the comics. When I got back a few hours later, I asked her if she'd read the comics, to which she said an affirmative "yup".
"So...How Did You Like It?" I asked.
"It was okay. That Lady was pretty Cool with the lightning bolts and all."
LOL! Anyway, to this day, whenever I see the cover of Issue #127, I think of that day at the picnic, and have to marvel at the fact that nawadays, X-MEN is SUCH a well-known comic/movie/cartoon,etc that there probably aren't that many people who don't know Storm or the other many females comprising the team. But back then...Wow.
