X-Position: Matt Fraction

Uncanny X-Men writer Matt Fraction talks about Psylocke once again in this week's X-Position. He haven't revealed much as usual though.

So I hear Psylocke is returning to the X-Books in big style during the Sisterhood arc, right? Will she just come out of nowhere and say "Hi, I'm back" or is there more? What are your plans for her from now on?

Matt Fraction: Who? Ah, that joke never gets old. To me.

Psylocke is indeed making her way back to our corner of the X-verse. How she gets here, why, who does it, and what it all means is really at the heart of the ‘Sisterhood’ arc – it explains everything about who the Sisterhood are, what brought them together, and what they've been up to since...what, “Uncanny” #499 or whatever it was when we first saw the Red Queen putting her girls in place.

Sword of the Braddocks: Changes

Pages: According to Previews, X-Men: Sword of the Braddocks, solicited as 40 pages, will now include 26 pages of all-new story along with an 11-page reprint from X-Men: Unlimited #47.

Release date: "Sword of the Braddocks" was supposed to be released on March 4th, but it has now been pushed back to March 25th.

Pencils/Colors: Wil Quintana will no longer do the colors for this issue, Dave Beaty will. Scott Clark is still doing the pencils though. According to their official board: "Dave and Scott are officially doing colors and inks, but officially Scott's penciling and Dave and Scott are doing the colors (unofficially I think they both are doing inks, too). It's more of a digitally painted story, kind of like what we did with Stargods." If anyone is interested, Scott Clark's DeviantArt page has some "Stargods" artwork.

New Exiles #18 Art

New Exiles #18 Spoilers

Spoilers: After last issue's big battle, Mystiq and Betsy mourn Cat's death, Gambit helps rebuilding the town and Rogue spends more time with Colyn. This world's President and Nerimani both agree that Lilandra will remain in exile on earth while Nerimani will assume the Shi'ar throne. Morph decides to stay with Nerimani, to make sure he leaves things in this world better than when they came. Rogue decides to stay too for she has found true love with Colyn. Mystiq, Sabretooth, Gambit and Psylocke leave and return to the Crystal Palace where they meet Sage. Tessa explains that she has merged the essence of her being with that of the palace and that whenever someone tries to communicate with the palace, they'll be talking to her. Betsy gets mad at Sage and run away. Tessa says she did what she had to do because the palace had lost its soul and because of that, whole dimensions were ending and the omniverse was dying. The palace wanted Cat at first, but Sage thought she was too young and couldn't handle it. Psylocke and Sage have a heart-to-heart and Betsy asks her what if this has no going back to what Sage responds that she simply doesn't care: she says she has a sense of everything and might as well make existence a better place. Meanwhile Gambit is swimming on the Crystal Palace's ocean where he finds Valeria Richards (from New Exiles Annual). Valeria simply says she was able to find the palace because she is smart. Sage gathers the team and send them on another mission while Morph returns to the Crystal Palace saying he couldn't leave his teammates. Another day, another mission. Something has happened on Gambit's earth: The Black Panther's people killed Gambit's father (Namor) so he decided to stay on his homeworld with his family as the new king. The Exiles and their allies finally defeat Black Panther and free Gambit's world. A couple of days later... the team spends some downtime together on the beach and Psylocke and Sabretooth make out (yes, they did it!). At night the team (Sabretooth, Psylocke, Mystiq, Valeria, Morph and Sage) look at the stars. They say they'll start again and look after everyone and every place. End!

Next: X-Men - Sword of the Braddocks!

Terry Dodson on Uncanny X-Men #504 Cover

Uncanny X-Men artist Terry Dodson has talked about issue #504 cover and reveals who is the lady next to Psylocke:

"It's the British Psylocke. The cover reflects one of the storylines featuring Emma investigating Scott's mindscape with all the various women from his life. The Storm on the cover is actually the mohawked 80's version. Also, in the background of page 9 panel 2 behind Emma you see 3 little figures - one of those is the British Psylocke. There lots of little hidden gems in there."

And there is more! Terry Dodson adds that "The initial idea [to include British Psylocke on the cover] came up because there's the little scene with her in the background panel and I thought it would make a great cover showing both of them together as it's impossible for them to be together (under normal circumstances, which the cover wasn't). It's always fun to add a mystery element to a cover to get readers to pick up the issue."

When asked about why Jean Grey wasn't included on the cover, he says: "Good observation - if you look at the issue there are NO redheads at all in Scott's mindscape as this is a story point of the issue and of things to come and also, none of the teen New Mutant / Young X-Men characters are there (for obvious reasons)."

May 2009 Solicits

Uncanny X-Men #510

Written by: Matt Fraction
Pencils & Cover by: Greg Land
Variant Cover by: J. Scott Campbell
SIEGE! The Sisterhood executes a massive raid on the Graymalkin Facility, taking their fight to the Uncanny X-Men, and you won't believe the ferocity. No one is safe! Everybody fights! But why? How? What do they want? And how long can violence at such an insane level last? Oh, about most of the issue.

X-Men Forever Alpha
Written by: Chris Claremont
Penciled by: Jim Lee
50/50 Covers by: Jim Lee
X-Men Forever marks Chris Claremont’s exciting return to a story he left unfinished over 15 years ago. Now, X-Men Forever Alpha #1 gets you caught up on all the best-selling action leading into Forever #1 with this special reprint of X-Men #1-3. The Master of Magnetism embarks on a holy crusade to rescue his fellow mutants from the coming genetic conflagration with humanity...regardless of the cost to either side. All that stands in the way of absolute chaos are the mutant heroes known as the X-Men, whose powers and abilities set them apart from a humanity that hates and fears them.

New Exiles #18 Preview

Cover by: Tim Seeley

Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Tim Seeley
Inks: Tim Seeley
Colored by: Wil Quintana
Lettered by: Tom Orzechowski

The Story:
FINAL ISSUE! They WERE the New Exiles… but after last issue’s shocking ending and a loss that will tear them apart, how can our heroes possibly continue? The answers await you here, true believers, along with clues as to what the future holds for our favorite dimension jumpers! Join X-Maestro Chris Claremont for a bittersweet chapter we can only call “BEGIN ANEW”!

In Stores: February 18, 2009

Vote for Psylocke @ Hasbro.com/marvel

Starting February 10th through March 5th Hasbro.com/marvel is running a fan poll to choose the next five figures to be made! You get to choose five out of seventy characters in honor of Marvel's 70th Anniversary.

Make sure to get your vote in now since there is only a few days left and remember to vote for Psylocke as one of your five choices!

Go to www.hasbro.com/marvel scroll down to the News Headlines section and click on the 70th Anniversary Fan's choice

A Better Look at...

With a little bit of work here and there and I got it! Here's the whole background image from Matt Fraction's Marvel.com video. This could be the cover for Uncanny X-Men #509, but we still don't know that for sure. Enjoy it!

Marvel One on One: Matt Fraction & British Psylocke!

Writer Matt Fraction joins Marvel.com Assistant Editor Ben Morse in the the Marvel.com Studio to talk about INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, UNCANNY X-MEN and more in the latest episode of our Marvel One on One video series. He didn't say anything about Psylocke, but behind him there's an upcoming cover for Uncanny X-Men by Greg Land featuring both Asian and British Psylocke! Maybe British Psylocke is the 'resurrection' they've teased about on NYCC!