Woah, i've been away for a couple of days and the posts to this thread have exploded....
I just read through it all and am aware that 2damn did kindly answer my message....although my response to the majority of it would be the same - that he and Rutog are applying certain feats to Storm's powerset and ignoring others. They will then claim i am doing the same and the thread will continue...
So i just want to get two things clarified.
1. It's NOT obtuseness to say that i don't believe at all that Storm redirected all of Sienna Blaze's blast (just HOW powerful her blast is is still debatable IMO).
Read the scan you put up yourself. Where does it say that Storm channelled ALL the energy upwards? Because in all the posts you have made about this feat, you consistently say she did this all alone. If you are going to be picky and want us to only believe what is written on panel and not inferred (for example, the whole Galacitc Core thing), then show me where it says that she directs ALL that energy up. Because it DOESN'T. Don't call me on being obtuse for pointing this fact: if you do, then i will call YOU up as being obtuse for making sure we are only believing what is said in other issue (again, i refer to that old UXM where you questioned Swanky's ideas).
The issue shows that Sienna was knocked into a glacier, her blast was directed upwards by Storm, and Cyclops protected them from excess energy. Guess what? Excess energy is undefined in this panel. It could be anything from nearly all of the blast to none of it. I'm not being obtuse by saying we don't know just how much it is. It's a fact. But if you "believe" that Storm directed ALL of it, i am just as right to "believe" that in actual fact, Cyclops did 99% of the work.
2. Who's the better leader then? Cyclops or Storm? Once again, by your logic, it has to be Cyclops (which i think is the case anyway).