That was half the reason. Emma as the dangerous harlot queen of the X-Men propelled years and years of storytelling was the other half of the reason. It spiced up the core X-Men soap in such a way that alot of future writers and editors liked it and wanted in.
The X-Men is an established set of relationships and interactions that grow stale without the occasional infusion of new ideas. Lorna's relationship to the X-Men started before most of us where born. The old dynamics are long dead, though I think spicy new ones are possible.
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Who is on the Duggan team?
Emma was Lord Fanny, Morrison's mouth piece and added a much needed caustic dynamic to the team the same way Wolverine injected disharmony in ANDX era. She acted as a mouth piece for the writers and was a fourth wall breaker.
The other stuff with Scemma being deliciously awkward is just extra. That plus her interactions with the Offenders and rest of the MU were great.
I believe the final stand will be between Polaris and Sunspot, both of these characters are quite famous, especially Sunspot, so if not Polaris then Banshee and Sunspot.
There were two update tweets from Marvel while the voting was ongoing. I'm sure they're on this thread somewhere. The first one was after the first few days and had Polaris way out in front (possibly 22% of the votes) followed by Banshee and Sunspot. The second showed the biggest changes in vote percentages after a weekend which had Banshee as one of the biggest gainers and Polaris as one of the biggest losers.
Firstly that shows Banshee is at least as popular with fans of the X-Men as Sunspot and Cannonball, probably more so. Secondly I believe it shows Marvel were trying to make it a two horse race between Banshee and Polaris, which made me think they'd planned all along to use both of them. I still think that's the case.
hoping for Banshee. His fans have suffered mightily.
An important addition to this is although Marvel listed who had the biggest gains and falls, it didn't really imply anyone necessarily went up or down a spot. Strong Guy was already in last and listed as one of the biggest falls, when he was at about 5% after first day voting.
What we know about in between those two reports is that Banshee gained ground while Lorna lost it. The big question is how much Banshee gained.
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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)
Armor & Marrow
Today's Mini-Strip.
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