Here’s the splash page from Uncanny X-Men #12 that includes Polaris. Someone posted it on Twitter.

This actually looks more meaningful than what I had heard from another fan who looked at the issue. As I said before, their comments led me to think Lorna appeared only in the sense of “She is a character that exists and has done things, but that’s it.”

This image seems to imply that all the characters featured here will come up in events tied to Magneto some day.

Now, I still don’t trust Marvel. I’m reminded of a previous San Diego Comic Con where Lorna and the other Starjammers were prominently featured on a banner, implying they would play a big role in coming events, only for Marvel to come back and claim the banner was only whatever random characters the artist wanted to draw. They can give the exact same excuse here. “Polaris in this splash page doesn’t mean she’s going to be featured in any stories, it just means she’s out there somewhere doing things!”

What this is mainly good for is showing that Cullen Bunn is aware that Lorna has value, people like her, and she should really have more done with her. Beyond that, we can’t trust this to mean Marvel is ready to treat her better and let her be used more.

Sorry for not tagging every single character in this image. Aside from not knowing all of them (you can thank Marvel for that; if Lorna got used more, I’d have more incentive to explore the Marvel universe and find out who they are), my priority is on Lorna.