AiPT!: In the Monday after New York City Comic Con 2019, 14–that’s right–14 past and present X-Creators field X-Men questions in NYCC’s Artist Alley!
AiPT!: When you put Psylocke back in her original body, did you know she’d eventually become Captain Britain–and how does that development make you feel, in general?
Jim Zub: I didn’t at the time, but I love that that’s become the outcome. I think it’s really neat, particularly because it’s harkening back to some of her earlier stories where she took on the mantle and failed at it early on in the Captain Britain series, the original stuff. So it’s a nice bit of bookending to that transformation. Now she gets to really pick up the mantle and carry it forward. I also like the kind of Euro-centric sword and shield stuff they’re doing with her power. I like it. It’s always fun to take the baton for a little bit and carry it off and then someone else is going to evolve it–that’s the way the Marvel Universe works. We all get to add our little pieces and then someone else takes a new turn.
“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.
4 comments:
Nah, Kwannon may take the Psylocke codename, but she'll always be a cheap copy.
And while Betsy took Brian's mantle, she still has much of what makes her the Betsy we know, like the telepathy and her TK weapons. She hasn't even appeared in a single issue with her new identity and she's already a cooler Captain Britain than Brian ever was.
@FSaker that exactly! Cheapest copy. Kwannon better get a name of her own and stop mooching off other people cause it got boring and dumb.
@Psi Girl I don't see it like that. Betsy is becoming the title she has striven for her whole life. Her longing to become a warrior was always strong in her and taking the mantle of Captain Britain from Brian was expected.
I have to agree though, Kwannon replacing Betsy as Psylocke doesn't benefit her to develop independently.
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