Classic art of Firestar by various artists from her first two decades of being published in the 1980s through the 1990s:
Dan Spiegle, Jim Mooney, John Romita Jr., Mary Wilshire
Ron Frenz, Mark Bagley, Alex Saviuk, Guang Yap
Tom Raney, Terry Shoemaker, Ernie Colon, Paul Ryan
Erik Larsen, Dave Hoover, Dwayne Turner, Jae Lee
Chris Marrinan, Joe Madureira, Steve Epting, Scott McDaniel
Brandon Peterson, Darick Robertson, Tom Lyle, Kevin Hopgood
Stephen Jones, Brandon McKinney, Craig Brasfield, Richard Pace
Patrick Zircher, Ron Lim, Sal Buscema, Paris Karounos
George Perez, Steve Scott, Joe Jusko, Joe Bennett
I kind of want Emma to recruit Angelica into the new Hellfire Club, just so Emma could say she successfully recruited the two young women she always wanted to join her team. Plus it would give Angelica something to do again being a regular character in Marauders.
I guess if they keep Lethal Protectors going after the Carnage event, then Angelica can stay on the Lethal Protectors team.
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
If that is so, then in the end the "bad gal" wins because her once-(vehemently)-reluctant recruits went and came around to her POV, decades later (in print)/a decade later (in-universe, however the sliding TL works). Leave it to Emma to find more ways to make herself inhumanly insufferable, which is the point of the Krakoa attitude.
Genkai nante nai (No limits), Zettai nante nai (No absolutes)
Thank GOD for X'97. Cautious about "From the Ashes". Please no more Blue vs. Orange.
Or more to the point that Angelica and Kate win because Emma wants to fix what happened in the past by trying to form a new relationship with both of them.
All you have to do is look at Emma's reason for asking Kate to work for her, she wants Kate to lead the Hellfire team that rescues mutants from non treaty countries that are being persecuted, imprisoned, or pursued by human organizations and need protection.
I am sure Emma would have a small sense of satisfaction seeing both Angelica and Kate sitting at the conference table with her discussing business, but at the same she might also see it as her own chance to redeem herself in the eyes of these two women as well.
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
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I caught a glimpse of this, supposedly from a fan culture magazine of the 1980s, around 1986--
I started thinking: What if Firestar had been allowed to join X-Factor, shortly after it's debut? It would have been a way for Firestar to join up with "The X-Men" (O5) and team up with Iceman, in a nice parallel from the cartoon show continuity. That in particular could have led to a lot of fun.
As folks here know, Angelica was kind of shunned away after her initial comics introduction; Claremont clearly had no interest in using her. I'd rather not go overboard with speculation, but I suppose part of it would be the perception at the time that Firestar was not an "organic" comics-based creation but something that "the cartoon people on the West Coast" came up with, and possibly leading to fan letters, particularly from younger kids, about "Where's Firestar?" that editorial and/or writers found annoying.
I could see Firestar being one of the first "young mutant" recruits for the team, with a red or orange 'X' on top of her uniform to parallel the original X-Factor costumes.
I could also see concerns about "another redhead" on the team as the reason to not include her. But heck-- for coloring purposes, they just had to color her hair "orange" (and in-story, suggest that she has reddish-blonde hair). It could have been done without much fuss. In terms of general looks, I've never felt that teen Angelica and Jean Gray looked alike, so artists shouldn't have been in much of a bind.
I suppose the writers couldn't figure out where to put her until Tom DeFalco, who previously wrote her miniseries, got the idea to have what has basically Marvel's answer to DC's Teen Titans, as the similar New Mutants where restricted to just having mutants, so along with the previously established Marvel Boy, Namorita, Nova and Speedball, it may have seemed like a no-brainer to them.
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Firestar popped up in X-Force #2, just in a crowd shot.