PSYLOCKE | CAPTAIN BRITAIN // like a butterfly: X-Men '92 #3 Art

Monday, May 9, 2016

X-Men '92 #3 Art

4 comments:

FSaker said...: It's great to see the good old '90s days recreated again, but it's curious how characters basically speak like in the comic books, not like in the animated series - like Bishop referring to Psylocke as "Braddock". If I remember correctly, the X-Men would always refer to each other by their codenames, except for Cyclops (who was called "Scott" by Jean and Xavier), Professor X (often called as Xavier) and Jean (who didn't have a codename).

Plus, Storm speaks like the hardass woman she is nowadays, instead of the dramatic woman she was in the animated series (I LOVED when she was all like, "Winds, obey the commands of Storm and wipe our enemies away from here!", as cheesy as it was). Hopefully when Jean returns, she will be failing all the time like in TAS (fainting all the time, tripping on rocks and extension cords and so on). Oh yeah, and Gambit needs to refer to himself in third person all the time, and Rogue has to say "sugah" at least five times per issue. I'm serious.

Anyway, speaking of similarities and differences, wasn't Janus Dracula's GOOD son in Victor Gischler's Curse of the Vampires arc? I guess Xarus was considered too lame to be Alpha Red, so the creative team of this book decided to turn Janus into an evil vampire instead...; May 9, 2016 at 11:03 AM
Alexander said...: Jean tripped over a cord? I need to watch that series.; May 10, 2016 at 2:08 AM
FSaker said...: Jean was hilariously useless in the 1990s animated series: she would faint EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. whenever she used her telepathy against an enemy. She was a little better with her telekinesis, but it wasn't such a useful power there as it is in the comics. Jean only got better by season 3 or 4, when she temporarily became Phoenix. I think the only reasons why she was chosen over Psylocke for the series was because she was Cyclops's girlfriend (and thus could often fill the "damsel in distress" role) and because the producers probably didn't want a kids series showing a ninja in a revealing bathing suit. Fortunately, little girls who watched the show could see other X-Women being actually competent, like Storm, Rogue and (believe it or not) Jubilee.

Meanwhile, Psylocke's sole major participation in the series (which only happened in season 4) was simply badass, with her kicking Archangel's ass, then kicking Sabretooth's ass, then making Mystique surrender herself. Sure, then Magneto captured her, but beating two major villains (who would often put up a good fight against ALL the X-Men at once) was quite a feat.; May 10, 2016 at 11:37 AM
X-Man said...: Actually I read this issue and storm actually does talk like that in it LOL. She actually did the wind thing you asked for haha.; May 18, 2016 at 10:33 AM

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