If you’re telling me Charles is not the kind of guy to give everyone a person nickname, then you and I are not going to get along.
I blame this entirely on The Little Heroes Au because I have been on that blog all day and they have the cutest little Maxomoffs and Erik’ I’m obsessed
If Magneto’s new “family” does not involve Lorna Dane I will literally eradicate Fox where it stands.
I’m currently really disappointed that Bryan Singer doesn’t want to use Lorna and Wanda. Marvel absolutely refuses to use the whole family, so Fox is the only place we have any chance of seeing it. I want to see the sisters doing awesome sister stuff together and the very different yet compelling relationships Pietro can have with both his sisters, but Singer seems to only want Quicksilver and Magneto, the male half of the family.
The family is rife with potential, but it’s potential he seems to not want to use at all. Just like Marvel, he’s throwing away a gold mine of opportunity for no good reason.
I swear every writer aside from Pad just hates the Magneto family. X-men films are generally a huge sausage fest would at least help break that up with Lorna and Wanda but nope we only get the male half of the family because fuck logic.
Actually, we’ve had several comic book writers that liked and respected the whole Magnus family, and there may be more at Marvel right now who very much do. The executives and upper level editors at Marvel are the real problem. What’s happening to the Magnus family is just the most obvious sign of what the higher-ups at Marvel want to do to the X-Men franchise as a whole: segregate, undermine and ultimately destroy when they think it’s safe to do so.
Christos Gage wrote Civil War: House of M. Jeff Parker wrote the six issues of Exiles that heavily dealt with AU versions of the Magnus family. Chuck Austen did a lot with Lorna, many points of which involved the rest of the Magnus family (Magneto was assumed dead at the time, but he still had a big presence in memory). There are also other writers like Mike Carey and even Cullen Bunn who have written Lorna with Magneto, that I personally believe would enjoy writing the whole 616 family if they could. Bunn’s already on board as a co-writer/second writer to Dennis Hopeless’ Secret Wars House of M.
I’ve seen some people, mostly people that view the Magnus family as a threat to their own favorites getting attention, claim that nobody at Marvel wants to write Lorna or the Magnus family. But it’s really not true. Marvel has, or at the very least used to have, several writers that want to write the family. They’re being kept from doing so by people above them for reasons that have nothing to do with wanting to tell a good story or draw in readers.
And to make this clear, this in no way diminishes the value of what Peter David managed to get through. He did excellent work with the Magnus family, and when Marvel comes to its senses and decides to use the family again some day, his issues of ANXF will be a great launching point for writers to start from. But there are also plenty of writers besides him that have written and would like to write the family, if only they could.
Magneto 20 Preview Story by Cullen Bunn art by Paul Davidson
Earth is careening toward oblivion and Magneto is desperate to prevent mutantkind from meeting its untimely end…
• But could it be that the key to salvation has been right in front of him all along in the form of his daughter, Polaris?
Source Comic book Resource
Interesting pages. I like how the start acknowledges Magneto has a limited POV compared to the reader; we know the Ultimates universe no longer has a Magneto, but 616 Magneto certainly doesn’t know that.
What we see here with Briar is more or less what I expected, and I mean that in a good way. I realized Bunn’s writing of Magneto is grounded, it doesn’t pull out any fantastical elements or crazy plot twists.
However, I DID have a few wild potential theories I was entertaining. Sort of the “leave all possibilities open” approach. One was that Briar might be Lorna from the future, before someone reminded me Magneto and Briar have been intimate. Another theory was that Briar could be an alternate universe Lorna, one of the versions of her that isn’t related to Magneto. There were a few other non-Lorna ones too, but I don’t really feel like going into them at the moment.
I also have theories of what might happen after Magneto #20, and these pages feel like they quash some of the more positive theories, but explaining them might count as spoilers.
I don’t wanna see lorna dane in the movies if it’s not Kristen Stewart who’s playing it
I have no special choice for Lorna, all that really matters to me is how it turns out. I’ve seen enough “fan controversy” about casting choices like Health Ledger to know people that are assumed as a terrible casting pick can turn out to be phenomenal for the characters they play.
If Magneto’s new “family” does not involve Lorna Dane I will literally eradicate Fox where it stands.
I’m currently really disappointed that Bryan Singer doesn’t want to use Lorna and Wanda. Marvel absolutely refuses to use the whole family, so Fox is the only place we have any chance of seeing it. I want to see the sisters doing awesome sister stuff together and the very different yet compelling relationships Pietro can have with both his sisters, but Singer seems to only want Quicksilver and Magneto, the male half of the family.
The family is rife with potential, but it’s potential he seems to not want to use at all. Just like Marvel, he’s throwing away a gold mine of opportunity for no good reason.
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