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HC: The family was a pretty fractured unit when the “No more mutants” line was uttered. This is a different storyline and time in this land, but how do we find the Magneto/Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch relationship currently?
DH: The original “House of M” is about the Avengers waking up in and then bringing down this Magneto dream world. Secrets were revealed, the family was torn apart and Wanda depowered most of the mutants on Earth. Our story is a different thing altogether.
This “House of M” is alive and well. Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have the kind of complicated relationships you’d expect amongst members of a ruling family but their world isn’t crumbling around them (at least not at first). They drive each other nuts for all the normal reasons.
HC: You’re also writing the “Inferno” storyline set in Battleworld. Both “House of M” and “Inferno” have all-powerful women – with Magik/Illyana Rasputin and Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff — at the center of those universes. Are there other similarities you’ve found?
DH: The two characters play very different roles in their respective stories. When we meet up with Illyana, she’s ruling the Inferno from atop her massive demon tower. Hers is a position of great confidence and power. “House of M”  Wanda is likely even more powerful than “Inferno” Illyana but she spends much of the story using her magic trying to clean up this big out of control mess (that I won’t spoil here). You wouldn’t want to either of these women mad at you but they don’t have all that much in common.
HC: Fans may have notions of worlds colliding, so to speak, on Battleworld. If you could crossover titles, who would you like to see your House of M cast of characters cross paths with?
DH: Well, now you have me wanting to write Wanda and Illyana together so I might just cross over my two Secret Wars books. The metal-skinned Colossus vs. Magneto doesn’t seem like a particularly fair fight but it might be fun to watch.

Secret Wars: House of M by Dennis Hopeless and Kris Anka There is more information at the link.

On the one hand, ew House of M. On the other hand, Kris Anka!

I really can’t wait for this. It might be the only one I’m buying.

On the one hand, I’m glad to see that Marvel is acknowledging Wanda and Pietro being Magneto’s kids in House of M, that they actually have a House of M comic, and that Polaris is definitely there on the cover.

The part with Lorna being on the cover is especially important. It reaffirms she’s part of the House of M and will be in it in some way, and we need that after the Avengers office went out of the way to take her out of a House of M portrait during Children’s Crusade. It’s also the first cover she’s been on in several years that Marvel’s actually willing to promote. Both are wonderful, excellent developments.

On the other hand, I’m bothered that the interview doesn’t mention Lorna. Dennis Hopeless is stressing the relationship between Wanda, Pietro and Magneto and completely leaving Lorna out of that equation.

I’m not going to truly judge any of this until we see more. It wouldn’t be fair to anyone involved if I rushed to judgment, whether positive or negative, on so little information.

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Hi World. I’m new here and I would like to have some followers.
I’m a big fan of the Magneto, Maximoff, and Dane’s family.
I also love the whole X Men, New Mutants, X Factor, Inhumans, and many more, but the Magnus’s fam are my primary especially Polaris (Lorna Dane). I’m following 201 blogs and only 5 are following me. Can you follow me? Thanks……

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Polaris art by lines/inks/costume design by Jamie Fay Color by maddelirium

This was part of a planned fan comic heavily involving Lorna. I never saw it go beyond this myself, but I might have just missed the work done on it. Regardless, it shows there’s a definite desire for Lorna content Marvel isn’t satisfying.

I’ve seen fans of other X-Men characters demand solo books even when their favorites are all over the place, but the fan work doesn’t tend to push that idea. By contrast, Lorna fans only really ask for Lorna to be more involved in the wider X-Men and Marvel universe and have her potential used just as much as any other character that’s been around as long as she has. A lot of the fan work for Lorna demonstrates a strong desire for a solo book starring her, such as the origin of this picture and a few fan-made Polaris solo covers, but that desire doesn’t translate into demanding Marvel make it so.

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Y’know, I think the fact Marvel chose to make the first X-Men cartoon from the 90s into a comic for Secret Wars but no other X-Men cartoons is a good show of exactly where the mindset and interests of the people in charge of Marvel currently lie.

X-Men: Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men are two more recent X-Men cartoons. Personally, I’ve seen more interest in both those cartoons than any others. However, I also have to admit that could be because the 90s cartoon so closely followed the comics that in many ways there’s not a ton of distinction for fanart or cosplay.

This raises a lot of questions for me, and I don’t know what the most likely answer would be. Did they ignore X-Men: Evolution and WatXM because the people in charge only view the first cartoon as “acceptable” for a Secret Wars comic? Is it simply the only cartoon anyone pitched to have made into a Secret Wars comic? Are the people in charge trying to imply everything X-Men after the Claremont era “doesn’t really count” for the franchise, both good and bad? Is Disney trying to use the comic to send a false message that the X-Men franchise is a dead franchise way past its prime and that contrary to everything we know, the 90s was the last time anyone really cared about it?

I’m not asserting any of these questions as fact. As much as I’ve criticized Marvel over its increasingly poor treatment of the X-Men franchise and characters within it, these really are just things brought up for consideration. We may find out more to suggest one thing or another as we get more images and solicits, or when the actual comics are out, but for now we don’t know enough to say anything with certainty. All we know is what they are and aren’t representing in Secret Wars.

One caveat: it’s perfectly fine and understandable for Marvel not to want to represent the X-Men films. I’ll support them on that one 100%. Disney and Marvel have this dumb obsession with the idea that treating the X-Men franchise with respect and putting it to use in the comics would significantly promote the Fox films. Anyone with the tiniest sliver of sense knows this isn’t true, but a Secret Wars comic representing the films actually would promote the films, which is why it makes perfect sense for Marvel to ignore the X-Men films during Secret Wars. The same can’t be said of X-Men: Evolution or Wolverine and the X-Men.