PSYLOCKE | CAPTAIN BRITAIN // like a butterfly: X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #131 Art

Monday, March 18, 2024

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #131 Art

9 comments:

Kiki M. Ishola said...: Good stuff. Wish it happened earlier and give Betsy something to do in Krakoa. Always pace picks up last minute before lights go out.; March 18, 2024 at 10:30 PM
randybear said...: All they had to do was literally let anyone else write Betsy lol; March 19, 2024 at 3:37 AM
X-Man said...: @Randybear no she had some other "interesting" writers as well lol.

I remember there was one period one writer kept having her say "as you wish" every 5 seconds which drove me insane lol.

I also didn't think the writer who did the solo book for Betsy & Warren quite got her voice correct either, but they at least could "blame" the Crimson Dawn for altering her personality I guess.

However, I definitely do agree that the previous writer (Howard) imho should never touch Betsy ever again.

Definitely more suited to magic storylines with someone like Dr Strange imho.

I like this Betsy here and the one in Dead X-men much more, though I think I read somewhere on some board that she won't have much involvement with the new X-Men book coming out (which disappoints me), but that Marvel did have future plans for her.

Not sure how true that is, time will tell I guess.; March 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
randybear said...: XMan I'm talking about Krakoa era; March 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM
X-Man said...: Oh ok I gotcha.; March 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Tobias Chatti said...: Betsy sticks like a sore thumb not looking X-Man wearing the CB armor.; March 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM
randybear said...: Right. I've always felt that. She just doesn't mesh as an XMan with that look. Storm, Rogue, Jubilee etc look like XMen... Betsy as CB does not look like an XMan at all; March 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Tobias Chatti said...: They put Betsy in CB armor to chase her out the X-Men. Mission success the writers and artists they paid ruined her.; March 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
FSaker said...: "I remember there was one period one writer kept having her say "as you wish" every 5 seconds which drove me insane lol."

That was Matt Fraction. To be fair to him, Psylocke wasn't one of the main characters from his run (the protagonists were Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Namor and Magneto), yet he gave her a lot of spotlight, even having her briefly join Beast's Science Club (despite not even being a scientist) and having her teaming up with Wolverine and Colossus to chase the U-Men. Meanwhile, most of the other X-Men only had one or two lines per issue and barely did anything relevant.

Fraction definitely wasn't the best writer when it comes to finding the X-Men's right voices (Scott was an annoying master strategist who would never answer for his mistakes, for example), but I think that when it comes to Psylocke, his writing was mostly harmless. Plus, he didn't keep Betsy restricted to his comic book; at that time, she was appearing pretty much everywhere (Mike Carey, Craig Kyle and Chris Yost also had her frequently appearing in their X-books, and if I remember correctly, Fraction was still writing the X-Men when Rick Remender's iconic Uncanny X-Force run started).; March 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM

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