Quote Originally Posted by raidensix View Post
They actually had an excellent adventure in space with the Star Jammers. All 3 were written as extremely powerful and had good showings against Vulcan and the Shiar Imperial Guard. Sadly, all that was forgotten once they got back him to Earth.
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They really should've stayed in space.
Depends on what portions of space are being focused on. Most of the time when Havok was around her, Lorna was written as incapable of thinking for herself and overly infatuated with him. Repeatedly, Lorna was written as depressed or self-loathing so Havok could "comfort" her, and the general attitude seemed to be to try to force her back into a role of "Havok's girlfriend" rather than her own character. This included one portion where Lorna being tortured was used to play up Havok's manpain at having to hear it.

The only good takeaways I saw from her in space were some powerful moments of using her powers, and scenes with Crystal and Luna.


All this said: hell no to Lorna thrown into space again, or the idea of her staying there.

I'm going to start this off with a personal anecdote. When I was just finding out about Lorna, around 2009/2010, I was on one of the chan boards. I said I wanted to see more of Lorna. One person's response: Lorna should stay in space to "keep her away from characters that matter." That's a paraphrase from memory, possibly inaccurate, but it gets at what they said.

Someone might say "that person was trolling." But here's the thing. It doesn't matter if they were trolling. They still highlighted what's wrong with Lorna in space: it's a way to exclude her from the X-Men franchise and its characters, which is where she belongs.

She's the second woman to join the X-Men. She's been around since 1968, over 50 years now. She survived the Genoshan massacre. She's Magneto's daughter. She should be a mainstay in the franchise, not an outcast to be rid of - which is what her time in space was partly about. To use her as a support for Havok, and to push her out of ongoing X-Men activity.

Before space, Lorna had been involved in Genosha and House of M in a meaningful role, leading into her brief period as Pestilence. Lorna getting sent into space disrupted both the ongoing narrative of Genosha AND kicked her out of X-Men events. Marvel STILL doesn't acknowledge she survived Genosha and what it should mean to her, which is like ignoring how Magneto survived the Holocaust. Uncanny X-Men is the first time in a DECADE Lorna got to take part in an X-Men event (Secret Wars was a Marvel-wide event, not an X-Men event). Maybe these things would've happened even if Lorna hadn't been sent into space, but at the very least, space gave Marvel an excuse to do it. It gave them a cover story that she's not relevant enough to the X-Men franchise to maintain her Genosha history or take part in events.


I wouldn't mind Lorna having a brief visit in space, like for one story arc, or a very special event. But anything long-term is a hard no unless Marvel is bending over backwards to make sure she can still take meaningful part in X-Men events and respect her character history while she's out there. And when I say that, I don't mean "satellite book has a tiny ignorable subplot that technically ties into the event" like they pulled on All-New X-Factor during Axis.

Quote Originally Posted by Soulsword323 View Post
I don't think Lorna's character works well in space in the long run. An adventure here and there is fine, but staying there permanently wouldn't do her characters any favors. I think it works better for Alex more so than Lorna.
I agree on this. Both because of the way his powers work, and because of his father and the Starjammers. I leave full judgment to Havok fans on this point though.