PSYLOCKE | CAPTAIN BRITAIN // like a butterfly: Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #1 Art

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #1 Art

15 comments:

Unknown said...: I bet people thought this mini was going to be so different!; February 28, 2019 at 3:42 AM
FSaker said...: Wow, is she trying to use the TK katana to give this woman an abortion - despite this woman's wish to HAVE the baby? If so, that's wrong. So very, VERY WRONG.

Then again, I guess that's exactly the message.; February 28, 2019 at 11:41 AM
Rahsaan said...: LOL. I’m afraid Ms. Williams might have bamboozled is with her teasers of how heady and sophisticated this book was going to be. We shall see.

Also, this rat woman character makes my skin crawl.; February 28, 2019 at 12:24 PM
randybear said...: Um no LOL they didnt realize she was pregnant at the time of these pages. Next time read the issue before jumping to conclusions and embarrassing yourself lol; February 28, 2019 at 3:15 PM
FSaker said...: I know they didn't know she was pregnant - in issue #1. These pages, as indicated in the title, are supposed to be from issue #2 - which is supposed to take place AFTER issue #1, unless they're retelling the same event.

And the rudeness in your reply is unnecessary, which seems to be becoming a habit as other people here have called you out on such behavior before. You're the only one embarrassing yourself.; February 28, 2019 at 9:27 PM
FSaker said...: Or, more likely, that the number in the title of this post is wrong and these pages are from issue #1. Which still could be informed in a polite way.; February 28, 2019 at 9:31 PM
Benjamin Hutton said...: There has still been no clarity of exactly how Betsy's psychic weapons work now.

Supposedly the sword and shield are telekinetic, so I guess they're meant to be solid objects, but then Betsy is surprised her sword is deflected by rat teeth?

And if the sword is more ephemeral, then how did the rat teeth deflect it?

Lamp-shading doesn't fix a plot hole.

I know I am in the minority here, but I expected this to be as bad as it was, given my dislike for X-Man's world and the writer.; March 1, 2019 at 12:46 AM
Jaime Braz said...: Is it possible that Psylocke's weapons have become solid psionic constructs? An expected evolution of her powers ever since she recreated her real body from soul energy. Now she can change them from spiritual to physical weapons like a Green Lantern would do, only she isn't aware of the upgrade. If she fashions maces, lances, axes, crossbows, whips etc. then it's true.; March 1, 2019 at 3:01 PM
Rahsaan said...: @Benjamin, right. She called them telekinetic in Uncanny 1, but in later issues, she used them telepathically against Warren and Ororo.; March 1, 2019 at 3:28 PM
Rahsaan said...: Basically, the weapons seem to work however she feels like they should. Akin to the writers. 😂; March 1, 2019 at 3:29 PM
Rahsaan said...: @Jaime, if the writers are reading, you just gave them an idea. They could use your idea and see the weapons are like her much missed psychoblast, which affects both psychically and physically.; March 1, 2019 at 3:31 PM
Benjamin Hutton said...: The psychoblast is one thing. It's just basically a psychic energy beam.

But I'm not interested in Psylocke: Psychic Green Lantern (and we already got this in that terrible X-Men book that was all women).; March 2, 2019 at 1:25 AM
Rahsaan said...: I’m not interested in any psychic weapons. I’m good with precognition, telepathy, and the occasional psychic knife. And her being a physical fighter. Hell, now that she loves to fight physically, even more reason for her to wear armor again.

And that was a nice rollover that she did over the back of the rat woman.; March 2, 2019 at 1:58 AM
Jaime Braz said...: @Rahsaan Chisolm I'm fond of the days Psylocke's psychoblast was the ace up her sleeve. She knocked the wind out of Sabretooth, Juggernaut and the Reavers with that move and fried Byron Bra-Dhok, long before Pokemon used it as Psycho Boost attack. Claremont was light years ahead despite the racebending debacle. He told in an interview he wanted to correct the body swap months after it was done, but differences with Marvel forced him out before he could, twice. The only video game which used her psychoblast move was X-Men:Next Dimension. There you can unlock Betsy as Psylocke in her original body wearing the Revanche suit and using her cutlass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqY5Xyr9B8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cz24kpBXyw

The psychic knife was the start. What if that was the psychological mechanism for Elizabeth to cope in a foreign body. Her feelings helped her do it, frustration and grief to be exact. With some will she can pull many weapons from her imagination. That is an upgrade from just another telepath, telekinetic and illusion caster. Marvel Girl, Karma, Prestige, Emma and the Stepford Cuckoos can do psychic tricks too. Psylocke individualizes herself from the pack with solidified imagination. My Green Lantern analogy is iffy, however it was an example for her new powers.

I doubt writers spend their time reading fan forums. In case they do, I like the concepts in Age of X-Man and particularly Leah Williams making efforts to liken oppression of normalcy in this inverted reality with real life minorities. It's tough work to maintain subtlety and fortify the queer community. She does a great job showing Betsy to be still a formidable warrior packing punches and martial moves.; March 2, 2019 at 3:15 PM
X-Man said...: I remember that game, but I'm not sure that was a psychoblast. It seemed like that character only had Telekinetic powers and the one named Betsy had only telepathy. I know she had a psy blast in the Capcom vs games but wasn't exactly the psychoblast. The only game I know of that she had a real psychoblast was Marvel Heroes. It was an online game that was on the PC and PS4, I loved playing the X-Men on it, but then Disney/Marvel canceled it.; March 4, 2019 at 10:38 AM

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