Originally Posted by
salarta
At this point I'm surprised they're even acknowledging she existed in 1975, since they've been acting like she has no history at all. My bad feelings about Marvel aside, in a very broad and general sense, it's good that Marvel is using her in "historical" stuff where she was present rather than pretending she wasn't there. It's also good that they're putting her on some covers whereas they haven't done that for anything until now, not even the X-women cover.
However, Lorna placed next to Havok on the second cover suggests to me that they'll present her as Havok's girlfriend. Which I know people will say "Well yeah, that's just showing things as they were, not changing the past means all of it." Except you don't need to change the past to not use parts of it. Just as Black Panther using M'Baku didn't mean they had to use the problematic "White Gorilla" name and association. For the current event, Lorna having launched Krakoa into space is important/relevant to broader themes. Lorna having been Havok's girlfriend isn't. And more importantly, as has been said many times, that relationship has been incredibly toxic for Lorna to a point where she needs at least a decade nowhere near him AND getting real, proper use out of Marvel before the relationship might be salvageable.
Putting her next to Havok - signaling intent to play up "she's his girlfriend" - doesn't surprise me. Marvel's been telegraphing that since 2017. First when they had her return to comics hijacked to promote Havok. Then embedding the Malice story as filler for a story arc promoting Havok. Then the Polaris and Havok figure set, at the same time Lorna was excluded from the Magnus family figure set. Then Marvel Tales putting Lorna on the cover as a bait and switch for how the story inside was actually Havok's intro issues where she was handled poorly. Then the kissing image in Prisoner X (instead of far more useful and important things like Genosha), and "what happened to Alex" line in Uncanny. Then the preview blurb about her that was all about how she can be used to promote Havok and Magneto. Now this.
In short, this is probably Marvel's latest "work-around" that screws Lorna over. Just as Brevoort tried to replace Lorna in Wanda's life first with Enchantress and then with Luminous, now we have Marvel trying to use "she was dating Havok back then so we need to show that" as a work-around for how she shouldn't be anywhere near him until they do necessary work in treating Lorna better than they've treated her for decades.
I see Steve Darnell is doing a "framing story" for this. To keep in mind.
Overall, I'm reasonably sure this will end up proving I'm right that Lorna is better off getting little use until post-Hickman.