DEADPOOL & THE MERCS FOR MONEY #8Cullen Bunn (W), Iban Coello (A/C).
·An Inhumans vs. X-Men tie-in!
·Deadpool and the Mercs are in a tussle with both the X-Men AND the Inhumans!
·Or are they?
·Negasonic’s abilities are more powerful than even the Mercs realize…
32 pages, $3.99.
Oh, so in other words the “this is an alternate future” suggestion in the prior issue was a misdirect, and what we’re actually seeing is delusions and hallucinations by Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
So, this answers conclusively that we still don’t know what happened to the real Polaris. A whole year since her last appearance in anything, and this is where things stand.
Now, admittedly, there IS potential here. It may not be the real Polaris, but it DOES simultaneously give her more exposure and imply the impact her existence has had on other mutants like Negasonic. Negasonic was at the Genoshan genocide and died there. It’s also not lost on me that this Polaris being a figment of Negasonic’s imagination means any discrepancy in characterization can be explained as errors in Negasonic’s perception of her.
If this is a subtle way of Cullen Bunn trying to figure out via feedback of AU versions of Lorna how to treat and depict her, that’s also a good thing. It shows willingness to put deeper thought and effort into her.
But, for all the good possibilities I can say above, it doesn’t change that Polaris has been entirely absent from everything Marvel for a year now. She was supposedly planned to be in an arc of Uncanny X-Men that’s already come and gone, and her complete absence in anything betrays a lack of interest and respect from Marvel as a whole. Otherwise she would’ve appeared somewhere by now. They certainly had no trouble bringing Havok into Death of X, after all.
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