Marvel logic: give Squirrel Girl her own solo ongoing, appearances and leadership in multiple comics, and celebrate the 25th anniversary of her creation, but refuse to do any of that for Polaris. Ever.
Take 43 years to restore Magneto as Polaris’ father.
Take 44 years to tell Polaris’ origin story.
Take 46 years to let Polaris lead a team of her own.
Leave Polaris out of amalgam covers meant to represent the X-Men franchise when celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Never give Polaris a solo comic book.
Never celebrate the fact Polaris has been around for over 45 years.
But do all that and more for Squirrel Girl. And many other characters not named Polaris/Lorna Dane.
2018 will be the 50th anniversary of Polaris’ creation, and I guarantee Marvel either won’t do a damn thing to acknowledge it, or will technically do something but go out of the way to undermine it and make sure as few people find out Polaris exists as possible.
Oh, they’ll probably celebrate Havok’s anniversary. Probably do a shitload for him. Probably include Lorna in the Havok celebration because it’s important everyone knows to see her as an extension of Havok instead of her own meaningful character worth exploring and celebrating in her own right.
But Polaris? Of course not. This is Marvel. Marvel doesn’t care about amazing characters full of untapped potential like Lorna, only exploiting characters already thoroughly used, creating new ones to hype up when an existing character would be better, and screwing over good characters because of business spats with Fox and other companies.
By the way. As great as it is to see an alternate future version of Polaris will be in a January issue of Deadpool and the Mercs for Money, it’s further evidence toward the theory that Marvel intended to throw Lorna away after Secret Wars and had no real plans for her.
A whole year’s complete absence from anything Marvel comics-wise, interest strong enough for someone to explicitly ask where Polaris is at San Diego Comic Con this year, and the best Marvel can do is add a non-present-day version of her to a tie-in issue of an event that she realistically should have a huge role in.
The best Marvel can muster after such a long absence isn’t a critical role in the main event, or the announcement of an ongoing, or getting added as a regular to one of the main books.
The best Marvel can accomplish after a year’s wait… is tossing her into something that could’ve been decided on a week ago. Something that didn’t require someone to sit down and think “Okay, I want Lorna to be here after this event, doing this, on this team.” It’s a ‘What If’ scenario in which any deviance doesn’t risk screwing up years worth of plans, in turn meaning Lorna didn’t have to be an integral part of events or the X-Men in order to be in the issue.
I might sound like a dick for being pessimistic and doubting, but if I do, it’s cause I’ve learned from the best: Marvel. Marvel has to stop being a dick for me to have no reason to also be a dick.
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