PSYLOCKE | CAPTAIN BRITAIN // like a butterfly: Captain Britain by R.B. Silva

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Captain Britain by R.B. Silva

18 comments:

randybear said...: Betsy here like "She still mad!" @Kwannon 😂; November 16, 2019 at 3:13 PM
Tobias Chatti said...: Is it from a concept art sheet? You can see other forms of Captain Betsy. On the right she wears the armor as dress. It shows the power of the amulet can make what Betsy wishes to wear.; November 17, 2019 at 12:45 PM
X-Man said...: Not really enjoying all the flowers in her hair lol.; November 17, 2019 at 1:31 PM
THE FLYING NEGRO said...: Silva tends to make the females look dumpy and broad. Betsy needs to lay off the crumpets in these concept artworks. Silva also made her blonde again?; November 18, 2019 at 1:23 AM
Jaime Braz said...: I prefer Betsy to be curvy not obese. Silva has based her on a full-figured and healthy image of the female anatomy. I will take this over a walking stick suffering from anorexia clad in armor and having Brie Larson flat pancakes syndrome.

Also I highly doubt Marvel will allow another blonde X-Woman to pile on the stack of White Queen, Magik, the Stepford Cuckoos, Boom Boom, Magma, Husk and Wallflower. What makes Betsy unique is her purple hair as long as Kwannon doesn't steal that from Betsy too.; November 18, 2019 at 8:44 AM
randybear said...: If you guys seen the last 2 sketches he did of Betsy they had a similar one tone look overlayed. Nothings changing they're just sketches.; November 18, 2019 at 9:53 AM
randybear said...: It's just a sketch. No shes not blonde again just like how her costume isnt gray and white as shown here.; November 18, 2019 at 9:54 AM
Rahsaan said...: Dumpy and broad? I couldn’t disagree more. She looks healthy and curvy hair with natural proportions versus the impossibly thin bodies with no waistlines and triple F breasts that many artists draw for comics that don’t look how any woman occurs without surgical augmentation.; November 18, 2019 at 10:27 AM
FSaker said...: Speaking of blonde hair, do you guys remember when Marvel used to periodically release "What If?" stories? There was one based on Second Genesis (that miniseries where Vulcan's team was revealed and which helped to destroy Xavier's image and respect among the X-Men), in which Vulcan's team survived the Krakoa rescue mission, but the captured X-Men (Jean, Angel, Iceman, Havok and Polaris) died.

Anyway, there is a double-spread panel showing the X-Men in that reality, and many readers were upset that Psylocke wasn't among them, despite several one-note X-Men being there. Thing is: according to the official Marvel wiki, Betsy IS there... but as the female Captain Britain, not as Psylocke (Brian also appears as the male Captain Britain, by the way). Since she is depicted there with blonde hair, blue eyes and no sign of psychic energy emanating from her, many people assumed this female Captain Britain was Lionheart rather than Betsy...; November 18, 2019 at 10:38 AM
FSaker said...: And I gotta agree with Rahsaan here; I think Betsy looks gorgeous in this art, with a body figure that is both realistic and flattering, curvy in the right places and proportions.; November 18, 2019 at 10:44 AM
Jaime Braz said...: Normal for some to react negatively to the curvesome body of Betsy. Especially the readers who weren't introduced to the original Betsy residing in her body in the 70s and 80s. People who had their first experience with Betsy while she was imprisoned in the Asian body - the typically skinny Japanese physique - can't get used to Betsy's curves and bigger cup size. Before the body swap Betsy had the biggest hips of all the X-Women. Alan Davis made that clear in Uncanny X-Men #213 when Betsy donned her first official X-suit.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/eed916391b56bb6c4e3703eff4e18a3f/tumblr_oezsytbMH21rra8xoo1_1280.jpg; November 18, 2019 at 1:24 PM
Jaime Braz said...: @FSaker a very interesting observation that went unnoticed. I wouldn't have spotted those details because Vulcan's rescue team is an obscure part of the X-Men history and useless retcon to explain something that didn't need explanation. Possibly concocted to rid Gambit of the third Summers sibling conspiracy.

Lionheart is a recent character and she doesn't fit the timeline of Moira assembling a secret team to save the first class X-Men. Definitely the one appearing in that issue is Betsy who took the mantle of Captain Britain.; November 18, 2019 at 1:34 PM
FSaker said...: @Jaime Braz, sorry, I didn't express myself correctly. The female Captain Britain in this "What If?" story isn't part of the rescue team in Second Genesis; while that story explores what would happen if Vulcan's team had survived the Krakoa mission, most of it takes place several years later (which would be that timeline's equivalent of the early 2000s in Earth-616), with the X-Men becoming a huge team full of sub-units, loved by humankind, with Vulcan as their leader (until Cyclops and Xavier find out he accidentally killed Jean during the Krakoa mission and then murdered Angel, Iceman, Polaris and Havok so that they couldn't tell the truth).

Thus, yes, that female Captain Britain could be Lionheart, as the story doesn't establish when she joined the X-Men (actually, she doesn't even have lines and only appears in this double-spread panel, like all X-Men except Vulcan's group, Professor X and Cyclops).; November 18, 2019 at 1:53 PM
FSaker said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; November 18, 2019 at 1:57 PM
FSaker said...: In case anyone wants to see it, here's the panel from that "What If?" story: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/File:What_If_X-Men_Deadly_Genesis_Vol_1_1_page_14_X-Men_(Earth-98193).jpg

(Betsy is the one next to Colossus and Kitty; as you can see, it's easy to think it's someone else instead of her); November 18, 2019 at 2:01 PM
Jaime Braz said...: The X-Men is a landfill of retcons. Every new writer administers a dose of added continuity and modifications to the franchise, to the point where everything is indelibly complicated. Deadly Genesis and Vulcan is a superfluous twist that makes Charles Xavier all the more manipulative and immoral.

On second thought I like Deadly Genesis because it takes the heat of villainy off Havok and establishes Vulcan as the new black sheep of the Summers family. Also the introductions of Darwin and Sway are the highlight, Petra is simply a mutant Terra from the Teen Titans.

I resent Hickman for not including Vulcan and Sway to the Five instead of the Rogue ripoffs Tempus and Hope.; November 19, 2019 at 7:58 AM
Jaime Braz said...: Marvel had the answer stuck under its nose since 2006 to tackle the body swap problem of Betsy Braddock. Her place on the X-Men as Captain Britain is the solution they went with in 2019. Although Psylocke is a slave name given to Betsy by Mojo it fitted her power set and character. It feels wrong to have her divorced from that legacy despite Captain Britain being grandiose.

She is indeed Betsy wearing the Captain Britain costume and is mentioned as such in the description below the splash page. The team has Brian as another Captain Britain so I wonder if Brian will escape Morgan Le Fay and reclaim his identity as Captain Britain. But where does Betsy stand in all of this after it happens? I'm worried.; November 19, 2019 at 8:11 AM
Lord Mark said...: Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.com; June 2, 2020 at 1:24 AM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)