Lorna Dane: Polaris Appreciation 2018

[Havok83]

Guess who wasnt excluded from this variant?

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[Soulsword323]

Don't care too much for the art, but its nice to see Lorna there. Love that she's in her original costume, and not the generic X-Factor costume of the 90s.

[AbnormallyNormal]

She is in a pretty good spot/pose too

[Heroine Addict]

... Love that she's in her original costume, and not the generic X-Factor costume of the 90s.

Which is interesting, 'cause it's a Joe Q. joint that's actually from then.

[Heroine Addict]

BleedingCool.com, Prescient Joe Quesada Draws Uncanny X-Men #1 Variant 2 Decades Before Needing It

... Joe Quesada... actually drew this cover back in the mid-nineties as promo art. ... thankfully, we’re currently in a 90s nostalgia-driven phase of publishing for the X-books, so everything worked out perfectly. ...

JMC's worst nightmare's coming true, lol.

[jmc247]

Which is interesting, 'cause it's a Joe Q. joint that's actually from then.

Yes, I recognized Joe Q's art. He did draw Lorna in the early 1990s and by editorial standards during his reign he seemed to like the character probably in part due to drawing her. His era was the closest to Lorna being a mainstay character since the 60s. I also notice there some 60s characters we don't see much including Mimic, Sunfire and well even I forget the last one I think it was Changeling.

[Havok83]

Yes, I recognized Joe Q's art. He did draw Lorna in the early 1990s and by editorial standards during his reign he seemed to like the character probably in part due to drawing her. His era was the closest to Lorna being a mainstay character since the 60s. I also notice there some 60s characters we don't see much including Mimic, Sunfire and well even I forget the last one I think it was Changeling.

If Im not mistaken, it includes every character that had been an X-man up until that point in the 90s except Magneto and Thunderbird

[Soulsword323]

Oh I didn't realize that was Joe's work. I've seen him do better, but its not the worse that's been released.

[jmc247]

If Im not mistaken, it includes every character that had been an X-man up until that point in the 90s except Magneto and Thunderbird

You aren't mistaken.

In that era they were trying to forget that Magneto had ever been an X-Man. It almost seemed like an editorial order to do so.

BleedingCool.com, Prescient Joe Quesada Draws Uncanny X-Men #1 Variant 2 Decades Before Needing It

JMC's worst nightmare's coming true, lol.

That cover had a reminiscent feel to it for me as he has put it out many years before as some of his work though I guess not as an official Marvel product until now. As for the rest one would have to be almost blind to not see the heavy 90s nostalgia going on right now. The Resurrection era was heavy into the 80s nostalgia and that certainly impacted Lorna's story line, how much the era change impacts things for the character remains to be seen.

The last era didn't uniformly enforce 80s nostalgia otherwise X-Men Red with Casandra Nova, Genosha, etc. all early 00s concepts would have never been allowed. Blue and Gold were heavy into the 80s themes though.

[jmc247]

Wanted to do a Hellfire Club piece and go for an old Victorian era painting vibe

BTW all, this is my last posting of a new The Gifted thread I plan on doing for some time going forward, I had planned on it being a rolling official new episode thread, but it seems others don't want that, but I am going to need others to start them up.

[Heroine Addict]

... the last one I think it was Changeling.

Yeah, I think so. Speaking of, is that supposed to be Revanche/Kwannon behind him, I wonder?

And poor Kitty, she's so buried, I barely noticed her.

... its not the worse that's been released.

It's better than most so far, IMO. Waitin' for that Jim Cheung one tho, TBH. The Chiang cover's pretty good, and Pacheco's isn't too bad. Had some issues with Bartel's, and thought Liefeld's was a hurried, half-hearted disappointment, overall. But none of 'em have been great, really.

[salarta]

Guess who wasnt excluded from this variant?

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I'm surprised and pleased. She's included for once. It's acknowledging her value and history with the franchise in this manner.

I don't like that she's opposite Havok with the same base pose, given it implies they're opposites to each other. But in this case, that's a minor quibble. Her inclusion matters more.

I like that she's wearing a variant of her iconic costume, and more importantly, I really like that the color glow from her powers is showing on Xavier's face. That's a great detail.

I'm not sure if I'll buy it though. Lorna being on a cover used to be enough for me back in 2015.

[Heroine Addict]

If Im not mistaken, it includes every character that had been an X-man up until that point in the 90s except Magneto and Thunderbird

Isn't that T-bird, behind Iceman?

[jmc247]

Yeah, I think so. Speaking of, is that supposed to be Revanche/Kwannon behind him, I wonder?

And poor Kitty, she's so buried, I barely noticed her.

Joe Q didn't have a great love for her and she sort of suffered when that cover was made in the 1990s from Jubilee's rise and other factors. Recall she wasn't a mainline in X-Men TAS the way she was intended to be in the earlier version of the X-Men animated series in more late 70s/early 80s form.

Characters suffer from the rise of others when they sort of fit into the role of a previous character. Lorna suffered from that when All New X-Men came in. Actually she suffered from it again in the Utopia era when she was in space and Magneto sort of fit into the obvious role she could have played on the island and later hunting threats to mutants with her early 2000s developments. Lorna's popularity among comic book buyers of the early to mid 00s was thus fairly lost by early to mid this decade.

[Havok83]

Isn't that T-bird, behind Iceman?

I looked for him and I missed but there you go