Lorna Dane AKA Polaris
During in All New X-Factor, Lorna was approached by CEO of Serval Industries, Harrison Snow, and was asked to lead a new corporate team of mutants to help people. Lorna agreed and began recruiting members for her team. The final roster included Gambit, Quicksilver, Danger, Cypher, Warlock, Georgia Dakei, and Luna Maximoff. The latter two were still very young and inexperienced and weren’t meant to be on the team initially. Georgia joined Lorna’s team after they battled her father, Memento Mori. Luna returned to Earth to visit her father, Pietro, after the press conference the team held in which Pietro admitted to the sins of his past. At first, the team was a bit dysfunctional, but since its inception, Lorna has proven to be a very capable and very worthy leader. She was approached by her half-sister, Wanda Maximoff, who expressed interest in “hanging out”. Wanda, Lorna, and Danger indulged in a girl’s day out, where they attended a Renaissance Fair in which they prevented the burning of a human female by her crazed boyfriend. Wanda later revealed that she believed Lorna would make a brilliant Avenger, and asked her to consider joining the Uncanny Avengers (Avengers Unity Squad). Lorna refused, saying that she could never be an Avenger. Her loyalty was with the X-Men and her mutant people. Wanda, believing that Lorna already knew, revealed that Pietro had joined the team to spy on Lorna for her ex boyfriend Alex Summers, aka Havok, the (former) leader of the Avengers Unity Squad.
Marvel has made a few special moves for Lorna. Giving her the chance to become a leader (what more could I ask for) was the best move they have made for Lorna. It did proof that Lorna was a worthy leader and Marvel also made her such a tough cool ass girl. I mean, who would think Polaris as a leader of a team? The interaction between Quicksilver and other members is also quite fun to read. I literally love Peter David. He’s such a great writer just like Cullen Bunn.
Those of you who haven’t read this book yet, I will recommended to you all. There are good characters in these series but the work done by David
is extraordinary, he really loves every character and you can tell by
the way the story develops positively among them, one example of this,
is the relationship between Lorna and Pietro.The evolution of Polaris
as leader of the team is really great, and a good thing to see her heading in a positive
direction. Right now she’s in the Magneto book helping her father saving the world and it’s also an excellent book to read.There is no reason to think that Marvel’s been treating Lorna bad. Cyclops was treated worse and even got killed recently. Every character gets to be mislead at some point. This does not apply to Lorna alone as some people want to paint her. There are possibilities for Lorna to continue to strive as Magneto’s daughter. Marvel is doing all their best to give each of those characters a chance to shine. I can see it through Polaris despite the rumors of those who don’t like her or pretend they do. Polaris is here to stay.
This is a great assessment.
Entirely
worth reading just for the amazing roster, All New X Factor is a
superhero book that takes a motley group of mutant X-men and tries to
make a family out of them. Peter knows the characters in and out,
writing dysfunction and wit into the dialogue in every page, while
Carmine’s art is perfectly polished. I simply love this book!What was most interesting fact about this book was Polaris as a leader and her brother looking out for her. The interaction of Wanda and Lorna and also the interaction of Pietro and his daughter Luna. Let’s not forget Crystal got to be in it too (Luna’s mother). You can safely say this book was about the Magnus Family (even Magneto appeared in this book). I really love this book and it has a lot of positive comments from a lot of people who read this book. Peter David is a bomb 🙂
I agree ANXF was a good book for Lorna, disregarding ANXF #2-6. We had a lot of great interaction between Lorna and her step-siblings, something sorely missing everywhere else in the Marvel universe for the past 6 years.
I half agree and half disagree about leadership. I think the fact it allowed her to be the recognized leader of her own team for the first time ever is undeniable and great, and toward the end she got to act well in that regard. However, I disagree that ANXF was mainly about her, that every issue treated her well (ANXF #4 and #6 were especially bad), and that she didn’t already have her leadership capability established before ANXF. When another team member (Gambit) gets to recruit half your team, including one member you clearly don’t want on it (Danger), it’s insulting.
About Marvel’s treatment of her. As I’ve said before, it’s true that she’s had good things, and it would be asinine to ignore those good things. However, the ways she’s been devalued and undermined as a character can’t be ignored.
She was excluded from Children’s Crusade, Avengers vs X-Men, No More Humans, and Axis.
Children’s Crusade went out of its way to redraw a family portrait from House of M to remove her from the family.
Avengers vs X-Men had her as a nameless cameo, one Magneto ignored being mind-controlled into submission by Emma Frost… about a month after Magneto went into space specifically to save her. Lorna had no interaction with her family at all.
No More Humans didn’t include her at all, but included Wanda and Pietro, even though All-New X-Factor was going on.
Axis deliberately tried to use Enchantress as a fill-in for Lorna, rather than using both characters. One cover had Enchantress opposite of Wanda and next to Magneto; another variant cover recolored Wanda’s hair red and Enchantress’ green to use the same visual as Lorna and Wanda without actually using Lorna.
Meanwhile, Marvel did nothing to promote Lorna getting her origin story in X-Factor #243, gave just about no promotion of All-New X-Factor, and at the same time Axis was coming out, kept the cover for All-New X-Factor #14 (the one with Wanda and Lorna on it) from release until it was too late for casual fans to order it.
When the X-Men franchise had its anniversary, Lorna wasn’t on any of the amalgam covers, yet one of those covers had Havok on it alongside the original five members; Havok came after Lorna and was on the team at the same time.
We also have one particular editor (not naming him to try to avoid potential harassment toward him) who tried to say she wasn’t important enough to deserve to be part of events (even ones with her family), and tried to make up this convoluted excuse about powers “breeding true” to say Lorna can’t be Magneto’s daughter but Siryn can be Banshee’s daughter.
All of the original post seems to follow this idea that Marvel writers and Marvel as a whole are one and the same. They’re not. Lorna’s had some good to great writing, because of the writers she’s had, but that’s wholly independent from how upper editorial and executives perceive her.
Which is as a threat to their current poor attitude toward the Fantastic Four and X-Men franchises. If that was not the case, they wouldn’t have tried to make Enchantress look like Polaris during Axis, nor would they have suppressed the cover for ANXF #14. They would have simply used both Polaris and Enchantress during Axis, and put out the ANXF #14 cover well in advance to maximize sales for the issue.
One final note. I sincerely think the main reason ANXF is perceived as well as it is now is because it got much better from ANXF #7 on after. I think if it had stuck to the way it was from ANXF #2-6, that would not be the case. I am stressing this because the original poster implies everything about ANXF was good and it had absolutely no flaws, both as a book and toward Lorna, but that’s not true. Saying all of a book is good is a mistake, and it robs writers of much-needed feedback for improving the quality of their work.
Writers need feedback that’s more than just positive remarks. As much as I like Cullen Bunn’s work, I still criticized Magneto #19 for Sugar Man wielding metal weapons to a planned meeting with Magneto.
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