Episode 020: Lorna Dane (feat. Cori McCreery)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 20 of CEREBRO, Connor and Eisner Award-winning comics critic Corinne McCreery imagine a brighter future for Lorna Dane, the Mistress of Magnetism! Since her debut in 1968, Polaris has won many fans but also struggled to find her place in the franchise, even after she was revealed to be Magneto's long-lost daughter.

The CEREBRO character file on Polaris begins at 44:02.

(Content Advisory: Lorna's story includes struggles with bipolar disorder, disordered eating, mind control, long-term possession, genocide, and a suicide attempt.)

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0:00.0	he's now lost the children he was more invested in, and he's sort of just stuck with Lorna.
0:05.3	And sort of just stuck with Lorna is kind of Lorna's whole publication history.
0:09.4	X-Men, X-Men.
0:12.7	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:21.5	Only hope is X-Men.
0:27.5	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo's superior.
0:33.8	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:36.1	And with me today is Eisener Award-winning comic critic,
0:38.8	Kerman McCreary, assistant editor at Women Writing About Comics and a contributor elsewhere,
0:43.4	including Comics XF and other great websites. This week, she wrote an article for Shelfdust
0:49.8	about Polaris, The Mistress of Magnetism, Lorna Dane, which is the character we are here
0:55.2	to talk about today.
0:57.5	Corey, how are you doing today?
0:59.4	I'm doing well.
1:01.0	Just a relaxing Saturday and excited to talk about my favorite X-Men.
1:06.7	Well, that is the goal of this podcast, always.
1:10.6	I have one quick correction about last week's episode regarding Well, that is the goal of this podcast always.
1:17.0	I have one quick correction about last week's episode regarding Sage, aka Tessa.
1:21.8	I noticed this during the edit, and I was like, I'm so fucking stupid. I was like, well, she should be Iranian because the Hindu Kush borders Iran, which it does not.
1:27.7	It is on the other side of Afghanistan.
1:29.5	However, I think my point stands, which is that Iran and Afghanistan are next to each other.
1:35.5	And I think it would be cool if that character was Iranian.
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