Technically speaking, Wanda is also a New Jersey divorcée.

LMAO 🤣

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #3 (2024)

Lorna Dane aka Polaris in X-Men 97 Ep 4, she appears in the title sequence and on a photo in Forge's home alongside her X-Factor teammates.

For those of you not aware, X-Men 97 pulled an asshole move of completely excluding Lorna from what happened on Genosha.

This matters because in the comics, she worked with Magneto (before she knew he was her father) to build up Genosha and is one of the survivors of the genocide. Her story was one of failing to save everyone but having to relive the nightmare endlessly by replaying its final moments with her powers until the X-Men got her out of the ruins. Her history was also respected here in the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon, which gave her great episodes and depictions - the only good ones she's had in cartoons to date.

There seems to be a common thread behind this genocide erasure in Lorna's history: nostalgia for Havolaris and how Lorna was treated in the 90s.

Jordan White was clearly trying to force each of these things while senior editor. At the same time, he had the X-Men books acting like Lorna had no connection at all to Genosha. This went so far that even an event where Kitty Pryde (Jordan White's favorite character, I've been told) did a big thing with Genosha had Lorna's appearance relegated purely to helping Kitty's plan and complaining about a lack of coffee. No acknowledgment she was a survivor of the genocide.

Then we have Beau DeMayo and X-Men 97. To date, the only references we've seen of Lorna were exclusively images of her with Havok and 90s X-Factor. One in opening credits, one in a photo in Forge's place. She's nowhere to be found whatsoever around Genosha in X-Men 97. The show even had X-Factor characters like Multiple Man show up to check things out, but no mention or presence at all for Lorna.

Here's where we stand right now. For a long ass time, I've said that I think there's a path to a relationship with Lorna and Havok eventually being a good thing. I've said it would take work and time where Lorna as her own character is restored and treated properly. I've never said getting the pair back together and it being a good thing was impossible.

This pattern of blatant, deliberate disrespect toward Polaris and her connection to Genosha is seriously making me reconsider that stance. If Lorna surviving a goddamn GENOCIDE can't be respected all because of some nostalgic assholishness, then how in the hell can Lorna make ANY progress or have ANYTHING good so long as the cause of this problem has any play around her? How can Lorna be treated as more than some stupid weakling supporting character girlfriend only there to kiss Havok's ass and jill off over his costume if something as essential as SURVIVING A GENOCIDE going to be ignored in service to sticking her in a toxic relationship with what is increasingly looking like a character that is just irredeemably toxic for Lorna to be around at all?

Up until today, I've said very up front that I seem a path of redemption for this pairing. X-Men 97 is changing my mind on that. I'm very seriously starting to think now that there is no redeeming this pairing and turning it into a good thing. Not when people like Beau DeMayo will erase a genocide from Polaris' character history for the sake of his personal fantasies.

I've said this elsewhere. But in closing, I'm going to be making a very deliberate effort to avoid everything having to do with Beau DeMayo because of his actions here. It's too late for me with the two Strange New Worlds episodes he did. But I already took Witcher and The Originals off my watchlists. And if he steps his toes into anything else I care about in the future, I'll be making it very clear why he shouldn't be involved in those things.

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #3 (2024)

why is pietro's failed influencer career never talked about thats the funniest shit ever??

Quicksilver and Speed have their team-up moment

I loved this team up so much but there wasn't enough of it! What we do get is gold!

Tommy showing up to protect his family, acknowledging David and wanting to protect him mum and uncle 😭 him showing off for Pietro and wanting his approval - protect our boy 😭

I wonder if this is the last we see of Tommy. Hope he and Wanda get a moment soon - same with Pietro and Luna.

Pietro lying about the grotto being a fact finding mission so Tommy doesn't follow him into further danger, promising to protect Wanda for Tommy and cheering Tommy up about David in his own grumpy way....guess we know who Tommy's actual father figure is and it's not deadbeat Vision 🤣 (this kind of calls to mind the scene in the previous Scarlet Witch solo with Billy and Wanda - Wanda talks about Pietro with her son - its a sweet casual scene. No mention is made of Vision notebly - thank god Orlando seems to have no interest in that long dead romanc

my favourite pietros from this weeks issue :)

honourable mention:

my favourite pietros from this weeks issue :)

honourable mention:

scarlet witch & quicksilver i drew for a collab on twitter :)