X-Force writers, Chris Yost and Craig Kyle, join CBR to answer your questions in today’s X-Position. Another Psylocke question makes it!
Psylocke is a character that most just see as a sexy ninja. With her new miniseries coming on, will we get the opportunity to finally go deeper than this and understand her motivations, dreams, and fears? She's also been changed and transformed so many times since her creation that I wonder – is there anything left in Psylocke from that little blonde British girl who first appeared in "Captain Britain"? Is there any way to unify these different incarnations of the character and make it a whole?
Chris Yost: It's funny, because we do see that "little blonde British girl" a few times in this series. This series is really about this character reflecting on her life and just the flat-out insanity of it, and what that does to a person. Like, what does being involved with the X-Men, and all the death and all the resurrection, and being blinded, and having your brother from an alternate dimension try to hurt you in horrible ways, do to a person? How do you not snap? This is a sad story. It's basically like Matsu'o taking a match and throwing it onto the powder keg that is her life. It's a very touchy-feely book.
Psylocke is a character that most just see as a sexy ninja. With her new miniseries coming on, will we get the opportunity to finally go deeper than this and understand her motivations, dreams, and fears? She's also been changed and transformed so many times since her creation that I wonder – is there anything left in Psylocke from that little blonde British girl who first appeared in "Captain Britain"? Is there any way to unify these different incarnations of the character and make it a whole?
Chris Yost: It's funny, because we do see that "little blonde British girl" a few times in this series. This series is really about this character reflecting on her life and just the flat-out insanity of it, and what that does to a person. Like, what does being involved with the X-Men, and all the death and all the resurrection, and being blinded, and having your brother from an alternate dimension try to hurt you in horrible ways, do to a person? How do you not snap? This is a sad story. It's basically like Matsu'o taking a match and throwing it onto the powder keg that is her life. It's a very touchy-feely book.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
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Yost is touching on all the right issues. What is Betsy beneath the beautiful exterior? Who is Betsy at the core, especially after all of the changes she has undergone throughout her life? Shifting the focus from Betsy's body to her mind is the right approach to develop her character. I would love to see Betsy use her telepathy in an introspective way to see the figments of her past selves in her mind. I would think that after all she has been through that there is some deep mental scarring within her mind. I have asked myself these questions in recent years and am glad that Yost plans on discussing most of them in them in the upcoming miniseries. Another great interview with Chris Yost. Thanks, Luckystar and CmX!
I agree that is seems that he is really looking into the history and realizing all the messed up stuff that has happened in her background. Yost sounds like a smart guy that does his research to build a story and is using Betsy's complicated past to his advantage. I think this in Sharp contrast to Fractions writing, which seems to be the never ending search for a funny one liner, which has the net effect of very one dimensional story telling.
Yes, poor Betsy has such a convoluted story, I'm surprised she isn't insane by now. Yost seems to show real interest in developing her character instead of using her as shallow cheesecake material, and Talibao's preview pages so far are gorgeous (kinda '90s-ish, but with its own style and personality).
This mini will probably be one of the best Psylocke stories ever!!
It sounds like Betsy will get a lot of characterisation and finally reflect about her crazy life. Yost won't disappoint me. Just 15 more days...
I'm getting more and more impatient with every new, interview or preview page they filter. Luckly for us the first issue ships in two weeks, on Nov 4th. Can't wait...
And look what Marvel's advertising in some of this week's books...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MLWRrxuVcL8/SuBd3EQE92I/AAAAAAAACII/qLVFIzAtZQM/s1600-h/psy_ad.jpg
(Administrators, picture's my own scan/edit and it's published in one of my blogs, feel free to take the picture and post it here if you want)
PSYLOCKE DIGITAL SKETCHBOOK:
http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.9972.Psylocke_Digital_Sketchbook
Aw yeah!
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