Allegedly, a Marvel artist posted this layout for an upcoming cover on their Social Media. The characters featured appear to be Rachel, Betsy (donning a new costume) and Brian. If anyone can identify the artist, please let us know in the comments section.
“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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More like she's doning a new tunic, a new cape and a new pair of boots. xD
So tired of the knight look
You'd think "patrolling the multiverse" would keep things a bit more modern, but here they are wearing medieval-themed rags again. At least this one doesn't seem to be as ugly as the previous two.
I hate the phallic flap that is always included in her CB look.
God I hate this era, this bad taste joke is lasting too damn long it makes me miss Exiles with the slutty costume and mountain shattering tk or even the limbo era after X-Treme X-Men.
I'd take dead Betsy over this lame Captain Britain bullshit.
Artist looks like Marcus To.
So off topic in today's Marauders Kwannon said she fights for Matsuo, James and her dead daughter lol she said she was denied her body for so long and fights for them... uhhhh what? So Marvel officially ignoring Matsuo was the villain and caused the body swap.
The sad part is that before all this CB nonsense their was a moment that this character was free of a lot of baggage from the body swap years and was made whole again. A reset start in which a talented writer could have developed her original persona and taken it from there. Now she is tangled up in what I think is another body, the Captain Britain body basically her brothers persona which I think does not suit this character. I think Betsy is always best when she is a covert operative, like how she is portrayed in the Captain Carter series, or a black ops group like x-force a wild card player that is sometimes underestimated but always surprises with how cleverly she uses her power. I think the best Betsy years were the outback years when she was invisible to the world, it seemed more interesting when she was in the shadows. Its not that she shouldn't or cant be a leader, but not in this way that is so exposed, it feels wrong ,
Psylocke, in my opinion, was far more interesting than Captain Britain and taking that name away just stripped away her whole history and character development for something unrecognizable. And not to continue to complain about Howards writing, I agree it's bad. Full of just ideas , if feels like Betsy has become the writers personal mouthpiece, which degenerates into fan fiction. I think some applaud the ideas the writer has, which I dont disagree with all the time, but the way she chooses to execute them is boring and goes nowhere.
I'm telling you, that Marauders' writer is just as crazy as Tini, if not crazier.
Yes! You nailed it.
Clap, clap, clap. As sinister says in the 80's psylocke was always a wildcard
For real?! A step back?! Bob Quinn's style was a fashion upgrade. Away with the mammy aprons and paddings!
Ditto
Revanche has stolen Psylocke , the butterfly , the hand costume , Betsy powers purple hair. In Marauders the crimson dawn mark and the Lady Mandarin duds. Anything left?
@Randybear I guess technically he was more a villian for Betsy than Kwannon. He used and violated Betsy's body without her consent, but for the sole purpose of resurrecting Kwannon as I recall (which is why I hated all the victim blaming of Betsy, very irresponsible storytelling on Marvel's part imo). Kwannon was so messed up that it took technology, magic, & Betsy's telepathy to revive her. Spiral took it upon herself & swapped them for twisted entertainment I believe, but I don't think that swapping them was Matsuo's actual intention. He just wanted Kwannon back at any cost, even if it meant kidnapping and violating Betsy to do it. I think the swap was actually a surprise to him.
XMan that is very nuanced and allows Matsuo to be redeemable especially those that are new and don't know the history or read the original story.. Even if you view it as sympwthic towards Kwannon he caused her to inadvertently be dead for years and was a criminal who manipulated her. Brywn.Hill hinted that Kwannon was a slave name or something.
@Banquo40, wow, great analysis!
I agree with pretty much everything, especially the part about the importance of "Psylocke" to Betsy's identity and how taking that name away just stripped away her whole history and character development for something unrecognizable. And that's something that is hurting and devaluing her as a character, and it's hard to think of a solution for that.
I'm not exactly against the idea of turning her into Captain Britain, but I think that Marvel took a very wrong approach to do so. In my opinion, when the Dawn of X era started, Marvel should have kept Kwannon out of the comics for a year, maybe a year and a half, to see if Betsy's transformation into Captain Britain would stick with the readers in the meantime - if it did, then Kwannon could be brought to Krakoa as the new Psylocke; if it didn't (and now we see it didn't), Betsy could be returned as Disassembled-Psylocke and Kwannon would come to Krakoa with a different codename and gimmick (maybe she could be like Yukio or something).
The way things were done, it doesn't look like Betsy's new identity as Captain Britain stuck with the majority of X-Men readers (sure, there are some people praising Excalibur and Knights, but sales and critic reviews tell a different tale), and now she can't go back to being Psylocke, because that name was already taken (and unlike Betsy, Kwannon seems to be doing pretty well with readers in her new identity). The Captain Britain identity could still work, but I think the direction she's being given is completely wrong: if Marvel wants us to see her as a major superheroine (in-universe, being Captain Britain IS a big deal, even though we know that most readers never cared about Captain Britain), she should be interacting MORE with the world, not EVEN LESS. She should be part of the X-Men team of mutant superheroes, or even join the Avengers (and I don't even like the Avengers), not isolated in her own corner.
That's basic logic, right? If you work at Marvel and you want to make a character stick with the readers, you put them with the X-Men, or with the Avengers, or with the Spider-family; you don't put them in a comic book isolated from everything else, because even if the book turns out to be excellent (and neither Excalibur nor Knights were), people who weren't interested in the character before will continue to be uninterested in them. Sadly, it seems that Marvel will stick to the bad ideas... I just hope that, by the time Howard's run with Betsy is over, the character will still be salvageable and won't become another Dazzler, who was once a major Marvel character and a series of bad decisions devalued her to the point that her fans feel lucky whenever a writer remembers she exists for a miniseries every couple of years.
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