Exciting times ahead! Brace yourselves as Captain Britain steps into the limelight in X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic's upcoming arc, penned by the dynamic duo Steve Foxe and Steve Orlando. This gripping story likely precedes Betsy's appearance in "Dead X-Men." Get ready for an immersive journey into the X-Men world starting February 5 with issue #125!
“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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I wish Marvel would print these at some point because I've read none of them
Probably a set up for dead X-Men and a way to justify Betsy's increased role in it, not mad, since we'll also get a taste of how she'll be written by Foxe. Orlando can do so much better than the pic they chose though
@lucas, Steve Orlando is co-writing, no? Does he also pencil? I bow this is better than his Marauders. Will give it a chance, but Marauders was not enjoyable for me.
Also, the Iceman issue of this online comic had this same style of art.
@Rahsaan you're right, I had a brain fart and thought that was the artist *insert facepalm emoji*. His Scarlet witch series was pretty good, so I'm cautiously optimistic
@lucas, nice to “see” you, by the way. It’s been a while since we’ve corresponded. 😃
I really hope this is the story where Betsy drops the CB mantle and ends up in her Disassembled costume and persona once more. Betsy trying too hard to be a hero is boring. I like her a grey area X-Men team member.
Dayum Tini devaluated our girl big time. Betsy is dumped to Infinity comics with crappy art and writers. Yay the twatter bunch be cheering.
Orlando is gibberish half time the other half spending on his fiendish seks fantasies. Like Dream eater guy m*lesting Daken and Romeo puppet around Bobby. Don't like Steve Foxe hanging around that creepster.
@Kiki, my comic book dealer recently told me I should read Orlando’s Iceman book and that it actually is good. He said the review I read where it claimed Robert was like a sex-slave facsimile made solely for Romeo’s fantasies is incorrect, so I bought it and planned to read it this week. I’ll get back to you. Regarding Somnus and Daken, from the Marauders issues I read, I saw nothing at all creepy about their interactions. In fact, it seemed quite the opposite from the issues I read. It seemed like Daken, Somnus, and Aurora were all quite mature about the fact that Daken had these two great loves that were now both very present in his life. I just found Orlando’s writing, dialogue, and story ideas boring and not very sophisticated. Was there something specific that happened where Somnus violated Daken at some point in to book?
Oh Rahsaan don't do this to you. The Inhuman grownchild is toying with Iceman. Issue 5 dropped and it's just the slush puppie boytoy fetish. Orlando can't write healthy relationships just h0arny stuff.
He saw Daken as a slur and changed it to Fang meh but he shrugged off Psylocke as a slur name for a Japanese woman. He goes by double standards.
Question: What's an Infinity comic? Digital? I've never heard of that before.
They're exclusive to people who subscribe to Marvel Unlimited
Marvel editorial remains in denial about Betsy not being functional as Captain Britain. The year 2024 will determine Betsy's future as a mutant character. She is either destroyed entirely or a flicker of hope in the form of a talent saves her from the fate they created for her.
@Rahsaan If a gay man's opoinion counts on a fictional gay relationship... Iceman and Romeo's is quite far from the "sex-slave facsimile" you read. It's quite healthy tbh (they even hint at an open relationship), and by issue #5 the weirdness of Bobby depending on him to remain in physical form is dealt with.
@lucas, as a fellow gay man, I totally love reading your perspective. I’ve read and heard very different things. I’m going to read the series and report back to you and Kiki.
I already know that the first review I read online was wrong as it claimed that the Iceman in the book was not Bobby but a mere ice replica controlled by Romeo. My comic book dealer told me that is unequivocally false, and that clearly the reviewer didn’t comprehend what they were reading. My comic dealer asked if I recalled AoA Iceman and all the feats he had mastered with his powers including transcending being limited to one body and I affirmed that I did. He replied, then you should read this new Iceman book as you’ll dig how they’ve shown what Bobby is truly capable of. And he also said that he thought I’d appreciate the maturity of Bobby and Romeo’s relationship. My comic dealer is straight, but he and I have often discussed themes of al kinds of love including queer love.
PS: Are you still out West? Or am I misremembering? I think we used to be connected on Facebook or Instagram before I deleted my accounts on those platforms a few years back.
I hope the lead into her role in the upcoming Fall of X event really gets to expand on her characterization beyond Otherworld stuff. It was fun while it lasted, but I got the feeling of unease every time I remember that the way it is now for the mutant metaphor isn't the same or even remotely similar with what it used to be. Which is fine for characters whose entire characterization never truly revolved around direct prejudice and its impact on them, but for someone like Betsy it's definitely a lot more fascinating to say the least. Now, I do feel that it could become tricky to balance the minority allegory without teetering too much into self-pity or an overblown "here's my list of oppression" kinda thing, but certainly there's something a writer can do to make it work somehow. With Captain Britain stuff it's just a profession to me; anything deeper than that results in an uncomfortable genealogical aristocratic discussion that I just am not sure if I'd even like to talk about.
All in all, I really hope that we can get a series about Betsy as Revanche, borrowing it from Kannon's history, who perhaps works back in the shadows to avenge Krakoa. It'd be very interesting if we can get Kannon together with Betsy doing psychic ninja-esque stuff, with Kannon as Psylocke (since it does appear that they're never gonna take that role off of her anytime soon even with Fall of X) working during the days and Betsy during the nights. Could be cool, could be awesome! Oh, and Rachel could be there too as their guiding light or something.
Speaking of art, when the animated X-Men reboot was initially announced, I hoped we would say more sophisticated art, like that style used in the animated What If… show. Sadly for me, it is that same 90s art. Watching What If… Season 2, and seeing how beautiful and modern the art and effects are, I’m wondering why the MCU chose to go this route for X-Men. Yeah, the 90s was an awesome decade for a lot of reasons, and I have much nostalgia for it, but the X-Men art looks so bad to me now. I hope we wiol ine day get to see the MCU X-Men on What If… , which is easily the best of the Marvel television series on Disney+.
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