AIPT: Welcome back to X-Men Monday, Jordan D. White! We haven’t had a chance to talk about all those NYCC 2022 announcements, so let’s talk about all those NYCC 2022 announcements! First up, you’re known to be a big fan of Brian Braddock’s classic Captain Britain adventures. What has you most excited about Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain?
In addition, I’m a fan of classic Brian Braddock stories — one of the most notable ones is about Betsy being Captain Britain — and it goes extremely poorly for her. So it’s been nice to give her some redemption on that. I wouldn’t say 100% she was a woman in a refrigerator in that story, but it’s certainly refrigerator-adjacent to the extent that it’s a story about her failing. So that’s unfortunate. It’s very much that her being hurt is there to elicit an enormous emotional response in Brian.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the spoiler. It’s a classic story where Betsy becomes Captain Britain and Brian is retired from it. He’s like, “Fine, I’ll just go and hang out with my girlfriend Meggan.” And a character named Slaymaster comes up and is fighting Betsy Captain Britain and he pokes her eyes out and blinds her. And Brian, upon hearing this, is enraged and tracks Slaymaster down and kills him. I think Brian smashes his head in with a giant boulder.
It’s nice now to be able to bring her back as Captain Britain and redeem her and be like, “No, she’s not an incompetent character.” Now, obviously, she’s been through a lot since then. She rose to being a huge member of the X-Men in the time since then. But it’s nice that she gets to be Captain Britain again and show that she can in fact handle it. I’m also glad that we figured out a place for Brian, making him Captain Avalon. He’s very much a big part of this series. Tini Howard has been doing a great job shaping Betsy’s destiny over the last few years.
And it’s nice that this time, instead of featuring her in a team book, this is a book about her and gets to really spotlight her and focus in, as well as showing her newly formed relationship with Rachel — a thing that was kind of bubbling in the background of Excalibur and Knights of X that then came to the forefront in Knights of X and now gets to be an official thing that they are an item. I’m really excited for that. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of another X-book that was led by an LGBTQ relationship. Obviously, we’ve had a number led by people who are engaged in a straight relationship. We have one that we just announced — Rogue & Gambit. But it’s exciting that this one gets to be so front and center.
“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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So basically what Betsy boils down to is just "a gay Twitter moment" no substance, no effort, just "LOOK! SHES GAY!' from Marvel sigh RIP Betsy Braddock
Sigh. They could have differentiated the 2 women by simply letting Kwannon go back to being Revanche, getting her own costume to establish her own unique identity & being an Empathic/telekinetic while Betsy could have continued being Psylocke like she was in Dissasembled and making her a Telepathic/Precog (was never thrilled with her having tk anyway lol). They literally went out of their way to make Kwannon (who didn't possess any psychic abilities of note until she gained some of Betsy's powers and doesn't have to use the same psychic knife like Betsy did smh lol) like Betsy, so kinda a joke saying they were trying to make them different lol. I'm sorry I don't think Tini has done a great job at all. I love Betsy so I did buy Excalibur & Knights of X hoping things would go well, but I found her stories lacking, dragging on forever while somehow simultaneously jumping all over the place, and never having a satisfying conclusion. I hope this is really a miniseries ending with Betsy giving the title back to Brian and getting a new writer. Sadly I won't be buying this one. Jmho!
^Spot on, I mean you can see just by how devoid of substance his answer is that there has been no clear direction in Betsy's use. It's basically, "let's use a character we have no need for in a bunch of third rate books, until even the fans grow tired and forget about her". And that's as best a summary as I can provide for what being a Psylocke fan has been since 2018 for me.
I bet either Rachel or Betsy will come out as trans in the mini series.
In other news I just saw scans with Kwannon once again talking about the trauma between her and Betsy. I can't tell but I got the impression she gave up the Psylocke codename at the end? And possibly got a new psychic signature of a flower? I could be wrong, but she talked about being in full bloom and had a flower like psychic signature around her eye at the end. Anyone read the issue? If that really happened, I would love for Betsy to take Psylocke back at the end of this new series.
@X-Man If you're referring to what I think you are, it's only a fan-made story...
Yeah I saw that after. It was very well done, that should have been my first hint it wasn't real lol.
I wanna live in the timeline where this was Kwannon's reintroduction to the XMen instead we got diet Psylocke
It translates into treading on eggshells that broke before (Excalibur, KoX).
I'm trying to decide if Betsy was more incompetent as Captain Britain last time or for the last 3 years.
I remember wishing so bad for many years that Betsy would come back from the dead after her death in X-treme. Now? I don't even care anymore. They've essentially killed my favorite character for...what? A twitter moment? No substance whatsoever. I almost prefer her to be dead than to be hollowed out into a shell of her former self.
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