I see has his costume painted as Ninja-Ku's one in the first page of parts 1 and 2. Was it a repurposing idea (like to and to in other stories) that was scrapped?
"You were engineered with such potential, Serpentor. But you lack the most important DNA of all... mine."
It's because the front page of the strip was originally printed in B&W with red highlights, the colourist had no chance of making him look like Stormie.