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Mistress of Magnetism Did you know that for some time it was believed that Lorna Dane … Polaris was the daughter of Magneto? But that has not been confirmed.
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1) Lorna being Magneto’s daughter was recently confirmed in Five Miles South of the Universe and X-Factor #243.
2) Lorna’s introductory storyline was all about her being Magneto’s daughter and struggling between Xavier and Magneto philosophies; making her suddenly not Magneto’s daughter was the copout change, and Lorna’s still constantly screwed over by Marvel and Fox because of it.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m afraid to find out how many DUIs Lorna’s had, and what other sort of crimes Lorna’s been arrested for.
(You are now imagining Lorna getting arrested at a protest against anti-mutant policies)
Hey. Hello there. Hi. I’d like to point something out here.
The image above is a combination of two preview images shown here. Obviously, the preview image is meant to hype this big Death of X event. Allow me to point out something very important.
Polaris is once again being excluded from a major X-Men event.
If you look at that landscape, you’ll see lots of other characters. You have the usual suspects – Storm, Rogue, Cyclops, Magneto, Kitty Pryde. You have some less known and less used characters – Dust, Armor, I believe one is Rockslide. Even Havok is included in this image… but Lorna isn’t.
Last year, I complained about the possibility of Polaris getting killed off during Secret Wars. My complaints there may make it seem strange that I’m complaining about her not showing up dead in this image, but let me emphasize: Marvel obviously isn’t going to really kill off all these characters. They might kill off some characters, but not all of them. Being featured in this image isn’t a spoiler to their fates. It’s an indication of how much or how little respect Marvel has for these characters, both as a whole and as part of the X-Men franchise.
The implication here is obvious. Marvel has respect for Havok, Dust, Armor, Rockslide, etc, but not for Polaris.
Someone’s bound to point out that the image doesn’t include other major characters like Iceman, or Beast, or Gambit, or Jean Grey. I’m aware that they can’t show every meaningful character, and Polaris isn’t the only one of value left out here… but she IS one of the few who a) almost never gets a chance to show what she has to offer as a character, and b) hasn’t been used or mentioned at all since Secret Wars. Those other major characters have received a lot more use and attention than Polaris has ever been given by Marvel.
When Polaris was heavily featured during Secret Wars, and she didn’t get killed off, I was ecstatic. It felt great to be wrong in my negative expectations of Marvel and to get some things I’d been waiting to see for a long time.
But there was one negative expectation I had and didn’t voice, solely because I wanted to give Marvel the benefit of doubt, that I just might be wrong. It turned out I was right about that one after all.
Marvel only gave Polaris a prominent role and a lot of cameos during Secret Wars because they knew they were going to throw her into limbo afterward while focusing on other characters they have more respect for.
It’s July. We haven’t seen or heard anything, anything, involving Polaris at all since last year. That’s more than half a year of complete silence.
We have rumors and suggestions that she might get a collectible figure, that she might appear in Uncanny X-Men, but we’ve had absolutely nothing tangible. No images. No solicits. No merch. She was rumored to be getting the first official full-fledged figurine in a decade with the X-Men Legends line, but then Marvel made another Havok figurine instead. They care so little about Lorna right now, they’d rather release another figurine of a character that already got one not too long ago, the only character Lorna’s ever been allowed to have as a boyfriend type.
Maybe all of this text is overreaction on my part. Maybe Lorna will have a hell of a role in Death of X. Maybe Lorna will get to join an ongoing X-Men book soon. Maybe there’s going to be tons of merch for her real soon. It’s always possible for me to be wrong.
But I don’t think I am in this case. Marvel has a consistent, long-standing bias against Polaris and giving her any real opportunities to shine. Any time she’s about to break out as a character, they shut her down. I don’t think right now is any different.
No I think TPTB at Marvel really either don’t care about her or actively dislike her. Which is…draining, as she is my fave.
I think you’re right about that. One editor at Marvel used to be extremely vocal in his disdain for Lorna, making up excuses like she can’t be Magneto’s daughter but Siryn can be Banshee’s daughter due to “genetics breeding true,” or saying Lorna couldn’t take part in Avengers vs X-Men because the event is “only for A-listers and B-listers” (implying Lorna isn’t important enough to deserve such involvement).
That editor has been a lot nicer and considerate in the past couple years concerning what he says publicly about Lorna, but I’m sure he still has a low opinion of her, and I’m absolutely certain other people in power at Marvel feel the same way.
They’ve been doing this for a while. They give Havok all these things, but they deny them to Lorna, entirely because Claremont made Lorna look bad during his run and gave Havok more respect despite Lorna being created before Havok. They gave Havok an origin story decades ago, but it took over 40 years for Lorna to get hers. They gave Havok a miniseries alongside Wolverine in 1988, something Lorna’s never had. They repeatedly feature Havok as important to the X-Men franchise’s history, including those anniversary amalgam covers where his 60s version was alongside the 60s original 5 X-Men, but leave Lorna out.
I had hoped for Lorna’s use during Secret Wars to be a sign that Marvel just might give her a chance sooner than I thought they would, but I was clearly wrong. It was just a way to keep Polaris fans quiet and happy before treating her like the D-lister or Z-lister they clearly think she is.
I’m sincerely starting to doubt Lorna will have any appearance on Uncanny X-Men at this point. Nothing is guaranteed until we see it on a comic page. Marvel regularly changes covers, for example, and Jeff Parker already had script work done for issue #7 of his Exiles run when Marvel canceled the series and made #6 his last issue. I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if Lorna was planned to be on Uncanny X-Men, but Marvel nixed her appearance on it in the 7 months between initial planning and right now.
Well, I don’t think TPTB at Marvel intentionally
used Lorna nicely during Secret Wars because of making Lorna fans happy before treating her poorly IMO; more worse,
they used Lorna as “a daddy’s girl”during SW because they just want
severMagneto’s longtime emotional ties to Maximoff Twins. That’s just my take on Last Days of Magneto solo and SW:HoM tho… so I’m bummed about her treatment after SW and during SW even later seems nice
at first glance.
I think that’s a huge part of it too. Lorna does need to interact with her father, but Marvel went out of its way to keep her from interacting with him until the forced retcon on the Maximoff twins’ parentage.
They went so far in cutting Lorna out of Children’s Crusade that they even redrew a House of M portrait to remove her. While Wanda, Pietro and Magneto interacted as a family during Avengers vs X-Men, Lorna only eventually got included as a nameless cameo – one Magneto ignored being mind-controlled into submission by Emma. During No More Humans, Wanda and Pietro showed up alongside Magneto, but Lorna was nowhere to be found.
Now that Marvel is trying to force people to accept the idea that the Maximoffs aren’t supposed to be Magneto’s kids, Marvel’s done various things to sever the ties people want to see. They promoted a dynamic with Enchantress and Wanda during Axis by making Enchantress look like Polaris, while refusing to promote All-New X-Factor #14, which actually featured Lorna and Wanda as sisters. They introduced a new “sister” character for the twins that was a blatant attempt to give them a replacement for Lorna.
With all of that considered, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if what you said is also correct – that they saw Lorna in Secret Wars as a way to quell complaints about Marvel screwing over the Magnus family and throwing away a creative gold mine for stupid reasons.
Comics fandom can be catty and selfish. People working at Marvel are deeper into those dynamics than most, and the common “who would win in a fight” thinking prevails – the line of thinking that says it’s fine for one character to get screwed over if it benefits one’s own favorite.
I think Marvel hoped to leverage that with Secret Wars. Because while I loved Lorna’s depiction in Secret Wars House of M, I feel the rest of the family’s treatment suffered in the process – especially Quicksilver.
The logic goes: give fans a pacifier to calm them down, and you can do anything you want. Give one character a solo book, another some big roles in a major Marvel event, and they’ll let you carry on with a terrible retcon or maybe even defend it.
Hey. Hello there. Hi. I’d like to point something out here.
The image above is a combination of two preview images shown here. Obviously, the preview image is meant to hype this big Death of X event. Allow me to point out something very important.
Polaris is once again being excluded from a major X-Men event.
If you look at that landscape, you’ll see lots of other characters. You have the usual suspects – Storm, Rogue, Cyclops, Magneto, Kitty Pryde. You have some less known and less used characters – Dust, Armor, I believe one is Rockslide. Even Havok is included in this image… but Lorna isn’t.
Last year, I complained about the possibility of Polaris getting killed off during Secret Wars. My complaints there may make it seem strange that I’m complaining about her not showing up dead in this image, but let me emphasize: Marvel obviously isn’t going to really kill off all these characters. They might kill off some characters, but not all of them. Being featured in this image isn’t a spoiler to their fates. It’s an indication of how much or how little respect Marvel has for these characters, both as a whole and as part of the X-Men franchise.
The implication here is obvious. Marvel has respect for Havok, Dust, Armor, Rockslide, etc, but not for Polaris.
Someone’s bound to point out that the image doesn’t include other major characters like Iceman, or Beast, or Gambit, or Jean Grey. I’m aware that they can’t show every meaningful character, and Polaris isn’t the only one of value left out here… but she IS one of the few who a) almost never gets a chance to show what she has to offer as a character, and b) hasn’t been used or mentioned at all since Secret Wars. Those other major characters have received a lot more use and attention than Polaris has ever been given by Marvel.
When Polaris was heavily featured during Secret Wars, and she didn’t get killed off, I was ecstatic. It felt great to be wrong in my negative expectations of Marvel and to get some things I’d been waiting to see for a long time.
But there was one negative expectation I had and didn’t voice, solely because I wanted to give Marvel the benefit of doubt, that I just might be wrong. It turned out I was right about that one after all.
Marvel only gave Polaris a prominent role and a lot of cameos during Secret Wars because they knew they were going to throw her into limbo afterward while focusing on other characters they have more respect for.
It’s July. We haven’t seen or heard anything, anything, involving Polaris at all since last year. That’s more than half a year of complete silence.
We have rumors and suggestions that she might get a collectible figure, that she might appear in Uncanny X-Men, but we’ve had absolutely nothing tangible. No images. No solicits. No merch. She was rumored to be getting the first official full-fledged figurine in a decade with the X-Men Legends line, but then Marvel made another Havok figurine instead. They care so little about Lorna right now, they’d rather release another figurine of a character that already got one not too long ago, the only character Lorna’s ever been allowed to have as a boyfriend type.
Maybe all of this text is overreaction on my part. Maybe Lorna will have a hell of a role in Death of X. Maybe Lorna will get to join an ongoing X-Men book soon. Maybe there’s going to be tons of merch for her real soon. It’s always possible for me to be wrong.
But I don’t think I am in this case. Marvel has a consistent, long-standing bias against Polaris and giving her any real opportunities to shine. Any time she’s about to break out as a character, they shut her down. I don’t think right now is any different.
No I think TPTB at Marvel really either don’t care about her or actively dislike her. Which is…draining, as she is my fave.
I think you’re right about that. One editor at Marvel used to be extremely vocal in his disdain for Lorna, making up excuses like she can’t be Magneto’s daughter but Siryn can be Banshee’s daughter due to “genetics breeding true,” or saying Lorna couldn’t take part in Avengers vs X-Men because the event is “only for A-listers and B-listers” (implying Lorna isn’t important enough to deserve such involvement).
That editor has been a lot nicer and considerate in the past couple years concerning what he says publicly about Lorna, but I’m sure he still has a low opinion of her, and I’m absolutely certain other people in power at Marvel feel the same way.
They’ve been doing this for a while. They give Havok all these things, but they deny them to Lorna, entirely because Claremont made Lorna look bad during his run and gave Havok more respect despite Lorna being created before Havok. They gave Havok an origin story decades ago, but it took over 40 years for Lorna to get hers. They gave Havok a miniseries alongside Wolverine in 1988, something Lorna’s never had. They repeatedly feature Havok as important to the X-Men franchise’s history, including those anniversary amalgam covers where his 60s version was alongside the 60s original 5 X-Men, but leave Lorna out.
I had hoped for Lorna’s use during Secret Wars to be a sign that Marvel just might give her a chance sooner than I thought they would, but I was clearly wrong. It was just a way to keep Polaris fans quiet and happy before treating her like the D-lister or Z-lister they clearly think she is.
I’m sincerely starting to doubt Lorna will have any appearance on Uncanny X-Men at this point. Nothing is guaranteed until we see it on a comic page. Marvel regularly changes covers, for example, and Jeff Parker already had script work done for issue #7 of his Exiles run when Marvel canceled the series and made #6 his last issue. I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if Lorna was planned to be on Uncanny X-Men, but Marvel nixed her appearance on it in the 7 months between initial planning and right now.
Hey. Hello there. Hi. I’d like to point something out here.
The image above is a combination of two preview images shown here. Obviously, the preview image is meant to hype this big Death of X event. Allow me to point out something very important.
Polaris is once again being excluded from a major X-Men event.
If you look at that landscape, you’ll see lots of other characters. You have the usual suspects – Storm, Rogue, Cyclops, Magneto, Kitty Pryde. You have some less known and less used characters – Dust, Armor, I believe one is Rockslide. Even Havok is included in this image… but Lorna isn’t.
Last year, I complained about the possibility of Polaris getting killed off during Secret Wars. My complaints there may make it seem strange that I’m complaining about her not showing up dead in this image, but let me emphasize: Marvel obviously isn’t going to really kill off all these characters. They might kill off some characters, but not all of them. Being featured in this image isn’t a spoiler to their fates. It’s an indication of how much or how little respect Marvel has for these characters, both as a whole and as part of the X-Men franchise.
The implication here is obvious. Marvel has respect for Havok, Dust, Armor, Rockslide, etc, but not for Polaris.
Someone’s bound to point out that the image doesn’t include other major characters like Iceman, or Beast, or Gambit, or Jean Grey. I’m aware that they can’t show every meaningful character, and Polaris isn’t the only one of value left out here… but she IS one of the few who a) almost never gets a chance to show what she has to offer as a character, and b) hasn’t been used or mentioned at all since Secret Wars. Those other major characters have received a lot more use and attention than Polaris has ever been given by Marvel.
When Polaris was heavily featured during Secret Wars, and she didn’t get killed off, I was ecstatic. It felt great to be wrong in my negative expectations of Marvel and to get some things I’d been waiting to see for a long time.
But there was one negative expectation I had and didn’t voice, solely because I wanted to give Marvel the benefit of doubt, that I just might be wrong. It turned out I was right about that one after all.
Marvel only gave Polaris a prominent role and a lot of cameos during Secret Wars because they knew they were going to throw her into limbo afterward while focusing on other characters they have more respect for.
It’s July. We haven’t seen or heard anything, anything, involving Polaris at all since last year. That’s more than half a year of complete silence.
We have rumors and suggestions that she might get a collectible figure, that she might appear in Uncanny X-Men, but we’ve had absolutely nothing tangible. No images. No solicits. No merch. She was rumored to be getting the first official full-fledged figurine in a decade with the X-Men Legends line, but then Marvel made another Havok figurine instead. They care so little about Lorna right now, they’d rather release another figurine of a character that already got one not too long ago, the only character Lorna’s ever been allowed to have as a boyfriend type.
Maybe all of this text is overreaction on my part. Maybe Lorna will have a hell of a role in Death of X. Maybe Lorna will get to join an ongoing X-Men book soon. Maybe there’s going to be tons of merch for her real soon. It’s always possible for me to be wrong.
But I don’t think I am in this case. Marvel has a consistent, long-standing bias against Polaris and giving her any real opportunities to shine. Any time she’s about to break out as a character, they shut her down. I don’t think right now is any different.
Old Polaris piece I started fooling around with again while I work on commissions. I have always been bad at knowing when something is done. #Polaris #xmen #marvelcomics #illustration #art #drawing #photoshop #watercolor #digitalart #color
Most creators feel like their work is never truly finished. This looks amazing to me and always has.
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