People tend to only post these Polaris pictures and only the pictures. Since it’s so rare to see more about the actual cosplay work and thought processes, I wanted to share the link version for everyone to go to her site and give it a look.
Yaya Han talks about why she chose to cosplay Lorna and this costume, how she made it, thoughts on the costume itself, and details about its making and where it was worn.
Quite frankly, I’m not surprised by this. Ike Perlmutter has been a regular problem case.
Before I go further, I want to make a personal note that I don’t like most of the language used by ComicsAlliance in their article. Referring to Trump as a “Cheeto” and similar terms is not only petty, but distracts from the much, much more serious matter of how fascist Trump is. Our culture is too accustomed to thinking that mockery is the answer to every problem, but with Trump, it’s only making things worse because people aren’t taking his risk seriously enough. This man’s words and actions encourage sexism and racism, to the point of causing attacks on innocent people. It’s not a chuckles situation.
With that addressed.
Perlmutter is a problem. And when I say problem, I do NOT mean “so find some means to harass and abuse him.” That is never okay. I mean from what I’ve seen, he’s not good for Marvel.
At a time when Marvel is trying to encourage women to get into comics, Perlmutter’s insisted female-led superhero films can’t be done. At a time when Marvel could use Fox’s missteps to demonstrate they’d do Fantastic Four and X-Men better if they had the film rights, Perlmutter’s word has caused the cancellation of the Fantastic Four comic book and for the X-Men franchise to be marginalized and stripped of its very nature to bolster the Avengers and Inhumans. Wolverine and the X-Men got canceled after only one season with two more planned, and personally, Polaris got screwed out of opportunities (and she still is) because Perlmutter wanted the X-Men franchise undermined. Before the Disney and Marvel merger, Polaris had prominent alternate universe roles on WatXM, Exiles, and Fantastic Force; after, all depictions of her except occasional moments in the 616 got shut down.
I’m still raw about a lot of this with regards to Polaris because it still has a negative impact on her. She should be a central character in at least one book right now, and she would be if the Disney-Marvel merger did not include Perlmutter arbitrarily deciding the X-Men had to be undermined.
And now, we get to Donald Trump.
Some might be tempted to write off Perlmutter’s donation to Trump’s foundation because it’s claimed to go to charity. But no. We can’t do that. Perlmutter could have donated to charity without Trump’s involvement in the matter. He chose to donate through Trump, despite everything everyone knows about Trump, his attitude and behaviors, the harm he causes through his influence.
It might also be tempting to say Perlmutter is just donating to Trump as a private citizen, and it does not have any bearing on Perlmutter’s impact on Marvel. But that’s not true. We know it’s not true because of Perlmutter’s insistence that women can’t be the stars of superhero films. His willingness to donate through Trump despite everything everyone knows about Trump is part of a pattern of thinking that he uses in the decisions he makes at Marvel.
That is all I have to say at the moment. I hope either Perlmutter decides to be better than this, or this serves as a wake-up call for Marvel.
This continues a trend of how biases in corporate interests really piss me off for how blind and narrow-minded they always are.
When I grew up, the pink and yellow power rangers being women didn’t stop me from wanting or playing with those toys. I even had the April O’Neil action figure, despite her not being one of the titular turtles or a well-known fighting ally.
Yet, here we are. Some guys who have a lot of bias and probably some axes to grind are so asinine, they’ll go out of their way to have a female character excluded even in sets where the character is just one of a set.
And make no mistake: even if the completely asinine “logic” that boys don’t won’t play with toys of girls were somehow miraculously true, all that means is boys would ignore girl pieces in sets. Boys are NOT going to look at a set that happens to include one woman in a sea of guys and think “Eww, it has one girl in it. OMG OMG OMG OMG I’VE GOT PLASTIC COOTIES NOW.”
Unless the boy’s father is a raging sexist/misogynist force-feeding his views on his boy 24/7, no boy is going to say they don’t want a set of toys just because one lone figure in the set fictionally has a vagina.
Which leads me to the conclusion: there is actually NO business reason behind women being excluded from toys in recent years. NONE. No matter what the suits claiming this try to say to weasel his way out of it, the real reason they’re against women in toys is sexism. Even if they sincerely believe their excuses, which I highly doubt, they are still excuses. They are still complete and utter bullshit.
With this in mind, I am really, really fucking happy that the attempt to focus on Kylo Ren turned out to be such a shitshow. It is my view that companies that do shitty things for shitty spiteful reasons do not deserve to make money. Now, they’re getting the comeuppance they deserve by way of lost potential revenue, negative PR, and people doing things for themselves when companies won’t give them any chance whatsoever to buy what they really want.
The comic, which pits Iron Man against Captain Marvel with a team of Avengers flanking each, sees a mysterious new Marvel character comes to the attention of the world, one who has the power to calculate the outcome of future events with a high degree of accuracy. This predictive power divides the Marvel heroes on how best to capitalize on this aggregated information, with Captain Marvel leading the charge to profile future crimes and attacks before they occur, and Iron Man adopting the position that the punishment cannot come before the crime.
calculate the outcome of future events with a high degree of accuracy
Soooo this is basically Online Fandom: The Comic Event.
I’m sharing this on my account for a couple reasons. One, to further demonstrate that harassment is bad, and excessive harassment is increasingly getting punished via law. Two, because of the number of accounts he used.
This is a guy who created 300 Twitter accounts for the sake of harassing other people. 300. Social media like Twitter and Tumblr makes it INCREDIBLY easy to make multiple accounts, and extremely devoted people can and will be heavily active with a slew of them to make themselves and what they’re doing look bigger and broader than it really is.
I’m saying this because I’m extremely familiar with fandoms and social media use. I know there are some great, amazing people out there who get bombarded with hate in this fashion. Without having experienced it over a long period, it’s easy to think all that hate is a wide swath of people and you did something horribly wrong to deserve it. In reality, a lot of the time, it’s one person with multiple accounts and a mission or vendetta of some sort.
“How can someone maintain 10 or 20 fairly active accounts? This can’t all just be one person.” That’s the most common thought, and this article is proof that a single person can definitely maintain that many active accounts. If this man could maintain 300 accounts, what’s 10-20?
Puerto Rican with 300 Twitter accounts accused of harassment
I want to say a quickie thing about this.
I’ve noticed very, very recently that Marvel’s being a bit more respectful to the stuff owned by Fox now. I didn’t post about it, but the Marvel Entertainment E-mail account has used Deadpool as the focus to advertise Marvel happenings. Now, we have Apocalypse Wars as well, which ties into the coming Fox film.
This is a good sign in terms of not just the future of the X-Men franchise, but in terms of Marvel’s future too. I’m not sure who between the two companies is the one to thank, so I’ll assume it’s Marvel at least for the time being.
Marvel’s finally doing the smart thing here. Instead of tearing down these franchises and cutting them out just because Fox owns the film rights, they’re now trying to take advantage of Fox promoting these franchises via films to draw people into the rest of the Marvel universe.
Hopefully, this translates into more opportunities and use for Polaris. Apocalypse Wars would be a damn good chance to pull in Lorna’s time as Pestilence. It could even serve as an excellent in-roads to finally seeing one potential storyline pursued: Lorna dealing with that anti-Apocalypse cult that tried to kill her. It was a throwaway line used only as an excuse to send her into space at the time, but it could’ve made for a whole awesome story arc.
Forge should be on this list, and why is Jubilee underrated?
Very happy with Polaris’ inclusion on this list. She’s had an incredibly raw deal for decades, and I think no greater proof exists than the fact her origin story didn’t get told for over 40 years – and Marvel didn’t even advertise it at all when it finally happened.
I’m assuming Jubilee’s inclusion is either a case of writer’s personal interest or as compared to the other X-Men, but I agree. She’s not underrated. She was one of the central characters of the 90s cartoon, she’s had her own solo books, and she’s been allowed to get involved with the core X-Men very often.
I could reblog, but I don’t want this to show up under Brevoort’s activity feed (assuming he won’t get a notification in his feed for it being used as a link). This post isn’t about Brevoort or his views, only about the info gained from his post, and I don’t think this is the sort of thing he’d want to read. Especially given my only reblog of him thus far.
I’m happy both about the anonymous fan’s views of SW HoM and Polaris’ role in it, and Brevoort’s response. Brevoort was very cordial, and I like that attitude more than what I recall seeing a few years back.
That said: through Brevoort’s response, we learn that there are no plans to continue SW HoM.
I expected this to be the case. I haven’t said this publicly until now, but I think SW HoM only happened as an attempt to appease fans that love the Magnus family and are rightfully angry about the forced retcon on Wanda and Pietro’s parentage. Fans have been angry with Marvel since it happened, and that outrage is a barrier to Marvel doing things that reinforce the forced retcon.
It’s a pretty simple strategy. Throw a bone to fans, get them to quiet down, and Marvel can have an easier time destroying the Magnus family. Any time a company or creator wants to force a franchise or character in a different direction, but knows doing so can raise or has raised a lot of anger, they pay lip service every so often until they emaciate the fandom to a point where the fandom can be ignored. This is no different.
I also suspect this is why Polaris had a lot of activity during Secret Wars: to satisfy Polaris fans before tossing her into limbo.
It was excellent and amazing to see Lorna with so many cameos, and to finally play a meaningful role in the Marvel-wide event. It was long overdue, and the sort of thing I’d been hoping to see restored for her ever since I discovered she existed.
But there’s nothing teased or announced for her at all post-Secret Wars.
Magneto is leading Uncanny X-Men. Quicksilver’s in the Avengers. Scarlet Witch has her own solo.
Polaris is nowhere. The closest we have to anything that could potentially be Lorna is a head shot in the background of an A-Force cover. I say potentially because the only distinguishing feature of the head is green hair; there’s no headdress.
Now, I could always be wrong. Maybe right this second, Marvel has some writer-artist team putting together some amazing issue or secret comic book where Polaris has a huge presence. But they haven’t announced or teased anything yet. So until they do, I’m going with the Occam’s razor explanation: they haven’t announced or teased anything for Lorna because they aren’t going to do anything with her.
This article actually came up among the people I follow on Twitter. Discussion was pretty much how bullies really aren’t about the fandom they claim to be about, as illustrated by these ones even attacking the team that created Steven Universe. Bullies only really care about bullying people, and attacking anyone that gets in the way of the “thrill” they get in doing it.
‘Steven Universe’ fandom is melting down after bullied fanartist attempts suicide
Hello! This is where I say some “I told you so” kind of things about Marvel.
I’ve said for a while now, Marvel is behind the times. Not by a huge lag time, they still hit on stuff that’s relevant, but they do so later than the rest of the world has gotten to that point. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is impressive,and innovative, but it also comes late. If we’re talking comics companies, DC was on the ball for the Dark Knight films well before Marvel had much to offer films-wise, and DC’s Arkham series of games were also a big milestone for comic book based video games while Marvel currently doesn’t have much to show for it.
And if we’re talking massive universe in multiple installments and forms of media? The .hack franchise beat Marvel to the punch a good decade early. That was a major multimedia undertaking that encompassed anime and video games mainly, but also manga.
What I’m getting at here is this: video games outrank films for revenue AND for hype among Marvel’s target demographics, and unlike films, Marvel actually has full control over what they do or don’t do with video games. No matter what Fox does or doesn’t do, there is nothing to stop Marvel from making a game about the X-Men or Fantastic Four that earns far more money and likely costs less to make than anything Fox could put out.
This is what I’ve meant every time I said Marvel undermining the X-Men and Fantastic Four on their end as an attempt to spite Fox is only really hurting Marvel. Fox isn’t the one missing out on the buzz and revenue a video game could provide, Marvel is.
Of course, we learned just yesterday that two X-Men TV shows are in the works. Hopefully this means Marvel’s finally moving away from an end point of Pyrrhic victory and toward actual victory.
Metal Gear Solid V’s opening day was twice as good as Avengers: Age of Ultron’s
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