Spoilers: Shogo has been badly wounded by the attack of Saturnyne’s white priestesses. At the forest, Saturnyne’s green priestesses nurse him back to health while holding Jubilee captive. Priestesses of the white caste live within Starlight Citadel while those of the green caste act as healers, hunters and keepers of the land outside the Citadel and tend to be more moderate. After a brief intercalation with the green priestesses, Excalibur finds Jubilee; and Betsy calms her down. Excalibur decides to spend the night with the priestesses. Rictor wakes up and runs into two druids. They explain that more war is coming soon and let Rictor touch a mysterious stone. The stone connects Rictor’s thoughts to Apocalypse’s mind back at Krakoa. Apocalypse points out that the Krakoan gate is but one element, but there’s another. Back in the 12th century C.E., Apocalypse’s first coven, the Eternals or High Lords, met to place Candra’s life energy into a stone as per her wishes. He further adds that power over the earth is power over all of mutantkind. Once the sun rises, Excalibur decides to head to Starlight Citadel while Jubilee stays behind to keep an eye on Shogo. Rictor takes the team to the mountains and uses his powers to plant the Krakoan gate nearby the Citadel while Captain Britain, Rogue and Gambit fight off Saturnyne’s minions. Once the gate is ready, Rictor heads back to Krakoa to meet Apocalypse. Saturnyne wishes to have a word with Betsy alone. Gambit and Rogue explore the palace and run into Saturnyne’s closet. Gambit steals some of her items and finds a red stone, much like the one where Candra’s essence was placed into centuries earlier.
“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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Apocalypse-Candra-the Externals-Saturnyne. The threads are weaved nicely. The untold history of mutantkind is told first by Excalibur.
This issue was so boring and pure filler. Makes me worried for Swords being 20 plus parts... anyway the art was good and my favorite thing about the issue was To drew Betsy's psychic avatar as an orb reminiscent of a fairy. Its so cute and id be happy with a fairy motif being her signature since the butterfly is gone.
@randybear it had some good lines and characters started acting as themselves. The best pick was Rogue's jab at Betsy; ''You're doin' Psylocke stuff, gonna make everyone else worry...''.
The avatar wasn't remotely Ciela from Legend of Zelda it had no fairy wings let alone butterfly. Just a flaming orb. I still think Betsy is entitled to her soul manifestation being a part of her essence.
Psi-Girl, right. Shogo is so boring and I was glad when Karma had adopted him back before HoX/PoX which was obviously retconned lol
And Jamie, it was shaped a lot like an orb, but obviously they were going for a fairy tone with it, as it goes along with the fantasy, Otherworld theme of the book.
@Psi-Girl Jubilee has to be tied to something for no reason. She escaped the Wolverine sidekick role - can't make reference to the rival company sidekick whose image she was made of - which is progress.
Shogo made a mark by making himself a useful dragon. To put a baby's life on the line is bad but worse to leave Apocalypse babysit it. Any parent in Jubilee's shoes would keep their child away from Apocalypse.
Jubilee gives the first taste of her true powers. As a parent she looks mature to back it up. Shogo is a tribute to her origins and how they both lost their families and this is their bond. That's my take from his introduction to Jubilee.
Kitty and Armor are no longer sidekick archetypes yet they're still relevant without adopting children.
@randybear if Marcus To has time before the art team changes to make something like Ciela for Betsy that would be welcomed. Nevertheless, the butterfly remains Betsy's birthright. If Jamie's powers manifest as butterfly particles and strings then the butterfly signature runs in the Braddock family.
Jamie lol she lost the butterfly as much as I hate to admit it. What more does it have to take for the main editor over the xtitles and the artist assigned Excalibur both stating "we are moving away from that imagery for Betsy" and Jordan "she has evolved away from the butterfly" he even made a joke about it and the fact that we saw Kwannon manifest it back in Uncanny 16 [or it was 17?] Plus again in Fallen Angels.
Ask Jordan directly on Twitter. Its gone and not coming back as much as I'd love it to. Its too late now to do anytjng about it. They've confirmed marketing has all the materials for Betsy CB and it doesn't include any butterfly imagery
Marvel will not stop using Jubilee as a mom. Shogo limits her despite it it is her new theme after vampire. Someday Jubilee will be the important X-Man up there with Jean, Betsy, Storm and Rogue as she should have been already.
Emma saw her true power and Logan knows it from the Outback.
Kitty is a veteran X-Man yet she will always be Kitty with a dragon to assist her. Jubilee doesn't need props.
The marketing issue could change if the people in charge were sensible to associate the Japanese mutant with the Crimson Dawn and dragons. And let Betsy keep her powers and signatures. What they can't do is change the past and history that shows Betsy use the butterfly first and the editorial choice will always be divisive and controversial like the body swap. Instead of healing they choose to deepen the wound.
Jaime you're preaching to the choir but the butterfly is gone from Betsy forever.
It seems to be an interesting issue.
But if I understood correctly, it's continuing the story from issue #9, right? What was the purpose of issue #10, in that case? Will that story with Jamie and the alternate Excalibur tie into this one, later on?
I don't know if we can say with 100 percent certainty that it's forever. Editors and minds constantly change lol. I think this is supposed to be more of a conscious decision on Betsy's part. Possibly for Kwannon's sake. Kwannon mentioned how they both have connections to the butterfly in Fallen Angels. She also mentioned how that annoyed her as it signaled they were always destined to cross paths.
Story wise Excalibur is confusing. Where have gone the distortion Corps? Nothing is mentioned to tie in to the previous issue.
X-Man it is useless their paths to cross. Betsy got all her powers back from Matsu when REVANCHE died. Sapphire Styx literally sucked Betsy from REVANCHE and left nothing but her empathy back. The psychic knife is a trick REVANCHE picked up from Psylocke Betsy. The drama the creative teams cook up is deliberate to keep REVANCHE in the spotlight because her reason of existence ended in the 90s.
Its nothing to do with story. Jordan Whit4 said its easier for kwannon to stay with all of betsys traits (butterfly included) because its "easier"
You're assuming this has to do with plot no it doesn't. Its marketing decision and they only briefly mentioned it to simply justify in story not because its an organic choice of the characters.
And it's a stupid marketing decision, because the psychic butterfly effect isn't even a memorable trait of "ninja Psylocke"; the psychic knife is much more related to Psylocke's ninja days.
Can't relate to corporate shills cause I'm hotheaded fan. If it ain't story driven but plastic wrapped in paper and shipped to stores it's not my turf. The bad news it affects the quality of the books and that makes me an angry customer.
@FSaker preach! REVANCHE can have the psychic knife that's all Betsy used while inside her rotten meat for a body.
What a crap edition. The last one finished with all then became captain britain, betsy supposidily dead. And not a single page to explain it?
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