I know why you're upset. I also know it's not relevant anymore. The books moved on. The character bounced back. Like a million other comic book characters who sometimes got bad stories. It happens.
And yet they haven't done that so far in the new status quo. And as for all those stupid stories you keep harping about, that's all from books no one cares about anymore or are acknowledging. So why are you operating from an assumption that Emma Frost will always get the shaft from now on?Every showing she has had in a X-Men book since then (with the exception of Black) has been awful for the character, and her history means that Marvel can just have her be stupid evil again with a flimsy justification that makes everything from Gen X onwards a complete waste of time.
Oh, lord, get real, it's a fucking variant cover showing X-Men antagonists through the ages. Do you see Magneto's history being destroyed by a variant cover? No? Then why is it different because it's Emma? Just because you're still upset about those recent stories? Fine, that's your prerogative, but that's not actually relevant to any motive for that cover's existence. It hasn't changed Emma's role as shown in HoX thus far. Yet I suspect you'll find a way to insist that they're just waiting to make Emma a villain again and drag her through the mud, because you're addicted to the feeling that the character is perpetually being wronged. If she has a heroic role again going forward, and I'm pretty sure she does, I think you'll have absolutely no idea how to talk about it. I'm sorry, but 1997 is not coming back. You can either live in the past and wish for a time when Emma was far less popular but sanctified in your mind, or let them bring the character back from some bad stories here and now, but holding a grudge over a variant cover is ridiculous.The poster just shows that Morrison's run is far less important to the history of the X-Men then PS/DPS, which makes sense. It also means that nothing matters but nostalgia, and they are more than willing to destroy 25 years of character development for that nostalgia.