Excalibur #7
Writer: Tini Howard
Artist: Wilton Santos
Color Artist: Erick Arciniega
Cover by: Mahmud A. Asrar
The Story:
The Huntsmen and the Warwolves!
Excalibur faces an old foe - this time as the hunters rather than the game.
In Stores: February 12, 2020
“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.
10 comments:
Nice art! I still prefer To's, but Santos is delivering a good work as well, judging from these pages.
And is the Braddock family complicated or what. It's funny that despite all the body swap mess, Betsy seems to be the most normal of them all (yes, Brian and Meggan included).
@FSaker
I didn't even notice that this wasn't Santos art until you said something. I just thought it was one of those issues when the art is a tad off in some places. Looking at his other work, he does have similarities to Santos.
This is the closest we have seen Betsy to butterfly visuals since AoX lol
Also the fill in artist i was initially worried but it's looking pretty good.
I'm still hoping we eventually see Betsy being less irritable in this series at some point. My favorite era of Betsy was Reload lol TBH I love how Claremont wrote her "voice" and thoughts during that first arc where am she returned and other arcs like HoM tie in and the Death Commando stuff Betsy was just so much fun.
Oh well I guess I just gotta accept that characters "evolve"
@randybear
That was pretty much my intro to Betsy & I enjoyed most of the plotting, Dino Rachel aside. That X-Men era followed by Remender have been my favorite depictions of her.
I know a lot of people complain that Claremont's writing hasn't fit well with the modern X-Books but I'm kinda surprised Marvel didn't offer him a small side book in this relaunch. I know that this is Hickmans era & he's running the ship of all the books but I'm curious to what he'd write under this editorial era?
I'd like to see a mini from him & nothing with alt future/dimension X-Men or possible X-Kid descendants. Cause it seems that now when Marvel uses him they kinda dump him off in a corner.
When you mentioned Reload, I briefly confused it with the Revolution era and was ready to say you're insane for enjoying it (Betsy was always acting incredibly stupid during that period)... fortunately you mentioned HoM and I remembered which was the Reload era.
Yes, it was a fun time. Not my favorite, as Claremont's style for captions and dialogues was already severely dated by then, but it did have its highlights, like Betsy being friendly with Emma while her thought boxes show Betsy repeatedly cursing her (I LIKE Emma, mind you, but it was hilarious), going to save the Greys wearing only a bathrobe, fighting Rachelsaurus... and apart from the funny moments, the whole issue where she returns to life is beautiful.
And having Alan Davis's art throughout most of this period certainly helped.
By the way, I read somewhere that Claremont actually will have a book in this current era... well, sort of: he'll remake the God Loves, Man Kills story, adapted to the current status quo (as Moira's actions did tamper with the past of the X-Men).
@FSaker
I remember that panel with her conversation with Emma lol! I was just coming off of Morrisons New X-Men so at the time I hated Emma & loved Betsy's true thoughts. Emma's really grown on me over the years. It's Scott who I really don't care for looking back on that era.
Kudos for Jamie actually wearing clothes & not sitting thonged out on that throne.
Jamie's powers have tiny butterflies. The butterfly signature runs in the Braddock blood!
Betsy has to have the butterfly back. It is sacrilege otherwise.
The hate relationship of Betsy and Jamie is accurate and I agree we need more Betsy and Emma confrontations at the Quiet Council.
@Jaime Braz I noticed the butterflies too lol.
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