My first encounter of this beautiful green looking woman, was back in OCT 1968 The X-Men (1963) #49. Ever since, I knew who was Polaris. I guess you now know I’m old school.
My first book ever was x factor #68 and I got to know Polaris 3 issues after, which was in x factor #71 from 1986, when a new team lineup starts. But really… who does not know Magneto’s kids? Polaris was the first to be discovered as Magneto’s daughter (who does not know Magneto?). The twins came after as a retcon.
It was actually a big uphill struggle for about a decade to get people to accept Lorna regaining her status as Magneto’s daughter. Thankfully, we’re past that point.
I think more still needs to be done for people to know Lorna is Magneto’s daughter, but things seem to be improving there. I’m especially pleased to see so much in the way of fanart and cosplay of the family lately. I’ve been more into Lorna and Wanda’s relationship as sisters, but Peter David’s All-New X-Factor helped me to see there’s a lot of potential to Lorna and Pietro’s relationship too.
I discovered Polaris about a year or two ago from reading All-New X-Factor. I knew “of” her beforehand from that cartoon wolverine and the xmen, but she didn’t really register on my radar until I started reading X-Factor. After reading the comic and her bio on one of the marvel wikis I found myself relating to her in some ways, with both her father issues and depression. I like how much she has changed as a character and hope to see her grow more as an independent superhero instead of living under her ex boyfriend’s shadow. I hope we see her in the new scarlet witch comic coming out, though with the whole new retcon that may not happen.
Yeah, unfortunately current Marvel is really beholden to executive interests. For me at least, it’s really hurt my interest in everything Marvel outside Polaris and some X-Men. I have no incentive to watch the MCU anymore or read the new Scarlet Witch solo. One is the reason the forced retcon happened, and the other is likely going to spend a lot of time on trying to make people accept the retcon.
It’s not like I’ll pick up an issue of Scarlet Witch and suddenly see the family restored and Lorna and Wanda being awesome together as sisters, after all.
I honestly don’t know what Lorna’s future is from here. It looks brighter to me now than it did a week ago, before Magneto #20. I doubt she’ll get to be a core member on any of the books, given Disney and Marvel’s goal of shrinking down and undermining the X-Men franchise. But maybe she’ll get to run Genosha.
EDIT: But that said, all the cameos she’s had during Secret Wars ARE promising. She might have a lot more in her future than I’m giving Marvel credit.
Good edit. 🙂 There are a lot of both good and bad ways to perceive this exchange. Personally, I feel it’s a good indicator of Lorna’s concern for her father’s well-being, and a sign she realizes he’s feeling very self-sacrificial on the verge of suicidal.
My first encounter of this beautiful green looking woman, was back in OCT 1968 The X-Men (1963) #49. Ever since, I knew who was Polaris. I guess you now know I’m old school.
Reblogging for people that missed it, got two nice responses so far. 🙂 I noticed it didn’t really stay up on search listings very long either.
Some of my all-time favorite Polaris uniforms.
I first came across her character in 1984 when I became obsessed with collecting old issues of Uncanny X-Men.
Gaming was never yours. Never. It was not designed as a safe space for guys free of women and you have no exclusive rights to the medium in the same way that no gender have exclusive rights to film and television. If women said you were not allowed to read books because that is their safe thing you would think they were ridiculous, you do not own a medium.
Women are not required to want to hang out with you in real life in order to game, that is another bullshit standard you apply to them and not to men. If a guy is a jerk whom you wouldn’t want to hang out with in real life you don’t throw a tantrum.
Women are not a hivemind, we each have our own individual thoughts and feelings and judge you individually.
That being said, women don’t want to hang out with you, not because you’re socially inept, but because you are an entitled asshole who thinks that women owe you their time outside of games in order to be able to play games without hostility.
If men weren’t hostile towards women, who have just as much a right to game as them, and weren’t so hostile towards the concept of fair representation then there would be any changes to the “scene” required, because people would already have a fair and fun experience.
Games are not your sanctuary mate, they are a product medium and never once has it been yours. Get over yourself.
“When women invade those safe spaces they leave men with nowhere to go”
Even if this load of absolute bullshit had any truth to it I’m deeply confused as to why this Anon believes that I or any other woman would remotely CARE
Pathetic loser men, and it’s actually been proven that men in games who attack women ARE literal losers, do nothing but act as gatekeepers to something that was never theirs to begin with.
For anyone wondering what big-wired is talking about, here’s the article.
Increasingly, fictional mediums, franchises and characters are getting this sort of exclusionary talk where certain people try to dictate who is and isn’t allowed to be involved. They try to be gatekeepers, deciding that certain criteria that conveniently aligns with their own opinions and experiences determines who has legitimacy.
In this case, it’s guys trying to insist that geek culture – the entire pop culture section of society encompassing video games, comic books and similar mediums with multiple genres, and the ability to make them or fanworks based on them – is a place where women do not belong.
Unfortunately, this is a byproduct of past sexism in these industries. For both comic books and video games, marketing types with false assumptions about boys and girls decided the two mediums are exclusively for boys because a lot of products have action and violence. A lot of the boys who spout this “geek culture is a male space, women are invading it” talk are simply repeating the marketing junk fed to them in their youth without putting any thought into it.
I, for one, am happy to see so many women involved. After growing up with the same marketing junk, made to believe girls enjoying such things is a bizarre anomaly, I’m happy to see women making comics and video games and cosplaying their favorites. I especially love how I’ve seen many women pick up female characters that have been treated very poorly in the past and push companies to do more and better for them.
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