Storm is a science fiction / fantasy comic book series originally (and for most albums) drawn by Don Lawrence.

Don Lawrence had spent ten years as the artist behind the British science-fiction strip The Trigan Empire.

With its impressive visuals, melodramatic plots, and (unusual for the time) fully-painted art, the strip developed a considerable fanbase in continental markets, particularly in the Netherlands.

Lawrence initially conceived of a story set in the "Deep World," a future Earth in which the oceans have receded and primitive civilizations exist on the former sea-beds.

The title revolved around a character named "Commander Grek", but the first installment (written in 1976 by Vince Wernham) was not picked up by Dutch publisher Oberon.

The story was later reworked by Philip "Saul" Dunn, with Grek replaced as the main character by the time-displaced 21st-century astronaut Storm.

On Pandarve, the normal physical laws are no longer valid; this gave Don and Martin room for incredible stories and magnificent scenery.

But because of a system error, the strangest "cocoons" started to emerge (including one resembling Heaven and one the Hell from La Divina Commedia) and cluttered together instead of floating off.

There are some references to well-known stories (Alice in Wonderland, Hänsel und Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, ..), movies (My Little Chickadee and other Western influences), celebrity actors (Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, ..) and some mathematical theorems (the Genesis Formula, Goldbach's Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem).

Martin Lodewijk maintained the writer role, while Romano Molenaar and Jorg De Vos were selected as artists.