I kinda always wanted to see Lorna in teal. I think she could look really great in that color IMO.
I kinda always wanted to see Lorna in teal. I think she could look really great in that color IMO.
Couple new pieces of fanart by Japanese artists.
by 95O22
Commission drawn by RNSI_de_gozaru
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Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
I know comic artists have a tendency to exaggerate anatomy, but dang, that first one ain’t right.
I can also be reached on BlueSky and Tumblr. Avatar by kahlart.
Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
I can also be reached on BlueSky and Tumblr. Avatar by kahlart.
Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
Rachel and Lorna and friends. Friends make jokes about eachother all the time. Anything other than that is just an intentional misread of the scene.
Lorna talking about her own struggles and self-doubt in narration is something that only makes her character more relatable to readers who might identify with her and also respects her story with mental illness. Nothing about these panels indicate any ill intent on Leah's portrayal, again.
Sometimes in the original X-Men run, Lorna's original costume did look blue-ish. Maybe it was more of a blue-teal than the green color usually shown. I liked those a lot as it did not compete with her eyes, lips and hair color. While this may have been a coloring issue, I liked it alot.
[Quote Originally Posted by Thor-El 10-15-2020 12:32 PM]
"Jason Aaron should know there is already a winner of the Phoenix Force and his name is Phoenixx9."
Like a Red Dragon, The Phoenix shall Soar in 2024!
It's one thing if it's just an offhand "joke" by people who are close. It's another when it's a theme repeated with multiple characters.
X-Factor #4's depiction of Lorna could have been what you say it is if there was any shred of Lorna in it. There's no semblance at all of either awareness or acknowledgment of how long she's been in the comics, all the different traumas she experienced, how those past experiences and how she's developed from them would have affected her views. Nobody at Marvel, including this book, can seem to give a damn about how she survived the Genoshan genocide and even mention it once. She's being treated story-wise like a brand new blank slate character who can be made into whatever best helps everyone else around her.
And that's something I don't abide by. I didn't accept it when Peter David treated her that way in All-New X-Factor #4-6, and I'm not accepting it now. In those issues, I didn't accept Peter David acting like Lorna has no past leadership experience and having her act one minute like a random rage monster with no impulse control to the next a cowed team member of her own team who somehow can't stop Gambit recruiting Danger to the team she's supposedly leading. Likewise, I'm not going to accept this X-Factor treating Lorna like someone who's never experienced the concept of death, or has spent the past 52 years apparently aggressively never learning (after vowing a decade and a half ago never to let it happen again) the lesson of how to have plans and guardrails up to head off getting mind controlled for the billionth time. This book isn't using Lorna. It's using a caricature of her informed by toxic past treatment of her and the nostalgia loaded onto it.
Respecting a character's story with mental illness includes respecting key moments in their history tied to it, and how those moments have affected them. Otherwise it's not respect. A story about Frodo dealing with PTSD from his journey in Lord of the Rings requires acknowledging that his journey happened and was responsible for his PTSD. Same here.
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Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
It's not a theme. It's a individual scene where two friends joke around, and then a comment made by a villain. A villain always says bad things about the protagonists of the book - it doesn't mean the writer wants the reader to think these views are true. It's just the villain's point of view.
What does "acknowledgment of how long she's been in the comics" mean? And why would she need to reference the Genoshan genocide in a completely different context? Nowhere also the book pretends that she never experienced the concept of death... It's a story set in the current status quo, an age where the mutants think they've conquered death and are invincible. The story in X-Factor #4 is about Lorna being somebody who's feels strongly about her teammate's death due to self-doubt and then enters into shock when she finds he can't be brought back. It's a huge surprise for the mutants in Krakoa in general because they thought they were past those days, and it hits Lorna the hardest because she feels responsible - not because she really was responsible for Rockslide's death, but because of her own struggles. Leah does not need to name all of her struggles for the reader to be able to understand that.
Last edited by nandes; 01-20-2021 at 02:58 PM.