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some familiar faces that i Marathoned since i finally managed to kick my tablet into working again after recent buggy updates messed up the drivers big time.
there’s 11 characters total but if you’re wondering what this is for, it’s for the rad as all Heck @giantsizezine , preorders open May 1st, and all proceeds are going towards THE LOFT, a LGBTQ nonprofit aimed at helping kids out in Westchester, NY!
I’m glad you mentioned giantsizezine, cause I forgot its name and felt horrible for having forgotten. Hoping I remember it when it opens for preorders.
Polaris 50th hashtag poll!
I put out a question on Twitter: should I create a Twitter hashtag for Lorna’s 50th anniversary?
If yes, then the next question becomes what the hashtag should be. Immediate thought is #Polaris50 but there might be better ones
It’s that time again! Polaris tweet time.
Marvel apparently has a 10 year sweepstakes going on for the MCU. I don’t know the details, but I know Elena used it to say how she’d love to play the role of Lorna in the MCU.
Elena and I ended up following each other after I liked and retweeted this tweet, but the screencap is from a tab I had open before that.
These tweets are about the X-Men Blue roster, if it’s not obvious.
I’m personally indifferent to the roster itself, but Brett’s comments do lead to a pretty damn good point: why does Lorna’s Blue team have exclusively “lower tier” characters while X-Men Red has Nightcrawler, Gambit and X-23, and Havok’s team gets characters like Dazzler and Colossus?
Whenever I’ve talked about ideal team composition, it’s always been mix of “popular” characters and “obscure” characters. The value being such a mix is that “popular” characters get wild cards for new relationships, while “obscure” characters get more use and get to connect with the “popular” ones. Marvel made Lorna’s Blue team entirely “obscure” characters. Lorna’s the closest to being a “popular” character only because she has a popular live action version on Gifted.
So the question remains. Why give Polaris a pack of unknowns and AU versions of “popular” characters while giving Gold, Red and Havok’s team full-fledged popular characters in their mix?
I’m going with bias as the reason.
On the flipside of what I just said, Hilton points out with Lorna leading Blue how she’s always been underrated by Marvel and deserves more and better than she’s been getting from them.
I needed to put these together, really.
People still hold the whole Magnus family as being the Magnus family despite Marvel’s forced retcon on the twins.
First set of tweets acknowledge what Marvel tries to get people to accept, yet if you pay close attention, you’ll see that they shows how wrong Marvel is. Even in acknowledging what Marvel claims, the family is too great to deny that they should be together.
Second set of tweets simply shows that people still want to see Lorna and Wanda do stuff together on the screen.
Last tweet I have to share for now. Contrary to what Marvel thinks of Lorna, people see X-Men #49 and #50 as a big deal for having introduced her. People don’t see them as “just random issues” from the early years. They see #49 and #50 as something to hold up with pride and announce that they got, specifically because it’s when Lorna got her start.
It’s especially poignant to remember this as we get closer to her 50th in October.
In case it’s not clear exactly how biased @marvelentertainment is against Polaris – and blatantly so – let me give you the description of this collection coming out in November.
Bolding important parts for emphasis.
Professor X is dead! The X-Men have gone their separate ways. Searching to find a way to make its poorest-selling super heroes click, Marvel was trying anything and everything. With the title on the verge of cancellation, Roy Thomas and Neal Adams clicked, and the rest is history. Their epic evolution of the X-Men defines the team to this day. Adams’ lavish and dynamic visuals and Thomas’ challenging and contemporary stories combined in a book that throbbed with the pulse of the times. Their iconic stories collected here introduce Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the Mutates and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention the Living Pharaoh, a classic Savage Land team-up with Ka-Zar, as well as the return of Magneto!
COLLECTING: VOL. 3: X-MEN (1963) 46-66; MATERIAL FROM KA-ZAR (1970) 2-3, MARVEL TALES (1966) 30
Here’s why this matters: Lorna was introduced in X-Men #49, and had her full mutant reveal in X-Men #50.
But look at the description of this collection.
Marvel’s eager to emphasize Havok’s introduction, but there’s no mention at all of Polaris’ introduction. They place Havok front and center of highlights, they go on to talk about Sauron and Sunfire and the Mutates, but Lorna? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
November is a month after Lorna’s 50th anniversary (she was created in October 1968) and Marvel’s attitude is to act like she doesn’t exist and doesn’t matter as far as this description goes.
Ways For Marvel to Improve Treatment of Polaris/Lorna
Simple, straightforward things that Marvel – or people working for Marvel – could easily do to improve their treatment and depiction of Lorna.
- More interactions with other women, including some spots with no men involved or referenced
- Lorna doing/saying things with no reference to Magneto or Havok
- In scenes with or about Magneto, try to look at the story from Lorna’s POV, not just Magneto’s
- Creative uses of powers, especially in ways Magneto would never try (e.g. artistic works)
- Highly scientific or “intellectual” uses of her powers (e.g. “telepathy” via electromagnetic brain waves)
- Use her Masters of Geophysics education in some way (e.g. teaching or research on powers and their uses)
- New romances with no mention of Havok, and active effort to be different from history with Havok to date
- Work in her long history in the comics (e.g. the recent Malice story but better, more exploration and not as a miniscule subplot to another character’s multi-issue story)
- Acknowledge it’s her 50th anniversary this October
Anyone else got anything to add?
The Creator of Avengers: Infinity War Villain Thanos Hates Marvel Comics’ Guts
This is one of those cases I’ve seen among several where Marvel shows a long history of bad behavior that they keep repeating. As one spot puts it:
Together, they enforce conformity on a multitude of individuals tasked with creating garbage, solely because “that’s the way it’s always been and always will be!”
Which is at the heart of any time there’s a problem at Marvel with the company/people working at it insisting on doing the exact same bad things over and over again for nostalgia sake, rather than providing actual improvement.
The Creator of Avengers: Infinity War Villain Thanos Hates Marvel Comics’ Guts
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