Brevoort pointed out that the current focus at Marvel is on characters that people are actively asking for, and he recognized the enthusiasm surrounding Betsy. This is a major win for us, as it shows that our emails, social media posts, and messages are being noticed.
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“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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Awesome. Thats exciting. I'm hoping Thorne gets to do it if they give her a solo.
I wonder if XForce would have lasted longer had it more prominent characters. Maybe if the team was lead by Cable and Deadpool had stuck around longer would have kept sales more consistent. Also imagine if Kwannon were on the team too? I feel it would have drummed up a lot of attention having both K and Betsy on the same team. I guess we will never know hehe
I liked X-Force @Randybear. It definitely made me more interested in Forge and Sage.
Also sales were pretty good so I don't think anything went bad.
And best of all it got Betsy's real personality back, as evidenced by them getting so much feedback that she was specifically mentioned :)
Thorne should be very proud of himself imho.
I know he wanted to do a Betsy series and he said he would tell us if it got shot down, and that was awhile ago, and so far I haven't seen anything about him saying it was shot down.
Im crossing fingers and mentioning him specifically when asking for more Betsy:)
This mention definitely made me excited.
Weapon X-Men had Wolverine, Cable, AND Deadpool, yet sales were so bad that even Brevoort himself acknowledged it was canceled due to lack of demand. lol
X-Force didn't score good sales. How is a flagship title, that's off the top 30 upon issue #5 release, considered a top performer?
This was not a good book, overall, and, specifically, instead of addressing the mistakes Krakoa did with Betsy, it only emphasised them.
Phoenix ranked way worse and still managed to get renewed, so it's clearly not just a matter of sales.
Psylocke also dropped drastically right after #1 as well can’t imagine how low it is on the charts with #6 but I bet Cebulski will let it go past #10
I didn't say it was a top performer,
I said it had good sales (Imo).
As far as X-Titles it sold decently.
Again Imho at least.
We all have different opinions, so it's cool :)
I definitely disagree on X-Force being a bad book, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.
I also don't think it emphasized the problems with Krakoa at all.
At least my specific problems with Krakoa lol. Which was Betsy being in Otherworld all the time & being completely written totally out of her character/personality.
Thorne had Betsy (again imho), back to her real personality, had call backs to her past whether it be her modeling days, or her old Psylocke outfit,
and he had her as an mutant X-Man first & Captain Britain far waaaaaaaay in the back 2nd (if that lol), which is what I think most fans respond to.
Tini Howard in contrast during Krakoa imho made Betsy's whole identity centered around being CB and not an X-Man (with Dragons etc etc) it almost destroyed Betsy.
I for one hope Thorne gets to continue with the character. If not him..then maybe Remender or Yost?
I'm just glad TPTB are noticing her popularity is in who she is....Betsy Braddock... not in her being Psylocke or Captain Britain.
I hope whatever we'd like to see for Betsy, we all keep writing and see her very soon in something after X-Force :)
Jmo!
TH even admitted she wrote Betsy as a new character to let K keep all the history and personality. And it was clear she was.
@NateX it was always a mini series and the creative team doesn’t exactly bring in numbers. The art was below average IMO
Thats terrible @Randybear. I'm not sure how I missed that, glad I did though lol.
All the more reason I'm glad Thorne got Betsy and essentially ignored the CB stuff (mostly.)
The premise of the book was to continue on with the same characterisation that started in Krakoa; meaning more magic, Otherworld, romance with Rachel and psychic weapons. If the only standard you choose to judge Thorne's work against was Tini Howard's comedic dialogue, then you've set the bar extremely low. X-Men Unlimited had already demonstrated improvements on that front.
I'm not even going to waste time on your remark that people recognise Betsy's popularity regardless of the Psylocke moniker. Let them launch a 4th Betsy-centred book with Michelangelo on art duties and Jesus behind the script, and it would fail massively if the ideas stayed in the same thread.
The reintroduction of her otherworld heritage is not a negative. Its something that differentiates her from the other telepaths when literally everyone can now create psionic weapons. Here's looking at Kid Omega and Jean Grey. Geoffrey Thorne's characterization of Betsy is looked at way more positively then the 5 years that Tini Howard had her. What comedic dialogue are you talking about? She hasnt been funny in X-Force at all. Unless you me her dry wit and sarcasm. GT was doing a great job at juggling her current incarnation. A writer cant just drop everything you dont like just because of your individual head canon. He did way better than you are giving him credit for and we can tell by the responses on Twitter and CBR that he was doing a good job. What were the mistakes of Krakoa? Giving her 3 titles with the same damn writer. Everything else was already lore that was reestablished for her and NOT executed well by the writer Tini Howard.
@Unknown, I agree with a lot that you said. Though I am not as in love with Otherworld lol.
I think Thorne did an amazing job basically having to establish his own take on Betsy while simultaneously having to figure out a way to basically undo the almost irreparable damage TH did to the character.
I don't think that was a simple feat and a lot more complex that just interpreting it as setting the bar of his writing vs TH writing as apparently others see it (or at least they think i see it that way, which isn't the case at all).
The impressive feat was him having Betsy recover from the damage of TH writing and basically have her be CB in name only,
but have her operate more like Dissasembled Betsy, because I think at this point people seeing Betsy as CB would bring to much ptsd from TH writing.
Thorne was smart enough to realize that imho.
I do think the other poster was actually saying that TH writing was comedic, not Thorne's, but to me it wasn't comedic, it became horrific. I truly think she almost destroyed the character.
I definitely hope Thorne gets to continue to work with Betsy some more in the future.
I liked the direction he was taking her :)
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