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ghosty732 (ghosty732) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-10 10:46:00

Entry tags:

char: domino/neena thurman, creator: matt fraction, group: x-men, title: uncanny x-men

Uncanny X-Men #508 (Spoilers)
CBR has a preview up of Uncanny X-Men #508. I'm only going to post the last page, because it's not exactly what we've been expecting.

And let's just ignore the art. We know: "LAAAAAAAAAND!"

So we begin with a page where Maddy and her "Sisterhood" go and recruit Lady Mastermind in a graveyard.

Cut to Domino in the streets of Tokyo. She's doing a favor for Wolverine and is going to a graveyard that Wolverine keeps in Tokyo. This graveyard has memorials for all his fallen comrades, and a few are actually buried there.

One coffin get's the attention of the Sisterhood. Domino distracts them a bit with a quick fight but they make off with a coffin and...

Could this mean we get British Betsy back?!

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	colonel_green 2009-04-10 10:07 am UTC (link)
	That's pretty tolerable, by Land's standards; he seems to at least have gotten a consistent referene for Domino. Nevertheless, someone will be called upon to actually emote at some point, and then things'll get bad. It's depressing after Dodson to have to go back to this (though the writing is still much-improved since the first arc). (Reply to this)

	tahngarth 2009-04-10 10:54 am UTC (link)
	The Psylocke mess, with all the retcons, the bad writing and the multiple body-switch silliness is one of those things you should just leave alone and never talk about again. There's just no way Fraction can make this into a story without opening that huge can of worms again. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	phoenixmessiah 2009-04-10 11:29 am UTC (link)
	Kwannon was left in Brit Betsy's body right? Which had been made to look quasi-Asian by Spiral... That's what I got from going to Wiki. Never thought that whole mess was so complicated until I looked it up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-10 11:36 am UTC (link)
	IIRC, no. Kwannon looked Caucasian as she was in Betsy's original body, whilst Betsy was in Kwannon's, with a lot of meshed memories between them. It was originally believed Spiral had reworked Betsy's body to be Oriental, but the Kwannon introduction retconned that rather messily. (Reply to this) (Parent)

ghosty732
2009-04-10 12:04 pm UTC (link)

This should help explain it (although it is still very confusing).

Honestly, the story could have been very simple: Betsy passes through the Siege Perilous, her mind is in tact but her body is useless. Kwannon falls of a cliff, her mind is brain-dead but her body is in tact. They meet telepathically and agree to switch. Betsy's mind is in Kwannon's active body, Kwannon's brain dead mind is in Betsy's paralyzed body. Eventually, Kwannon-in-Betsy wakes up and forgets the ordeal.

Sort of like what happened in Ultimate X-men (when it was good). And that seems to be what they were going for, with Nyoirin's false journals) but then... nothing was ever that simple back then.

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	tahngarth 2009-04-10 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	It could have been a rather straight-forward story, but it's not, and the retcons make details in the various stories not mesh, like Wolvie recognizing Betsy-in-Kwannon's-body from her face, or the various journals. Which is why I feel the whole mess should just be paved over and forgotten, or at least only referred to in a simplified manner. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ghosty732 2009-04-10 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Thanks to whoever fixed my tags. The Greg Land one seems kind of mean, though... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xlineartx 2009-04-10 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing is too mean for Greg Land. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherkahn 2009-04-10 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	Is this Domino or is this Chianna from Farscape? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-04-10 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	In the previous preview pages, Martinique is totally Kate Beckinsale. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-04-10 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	That Greg Land tag is awesome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-04-10 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	blinks Wait, what do you - ... Oh. Ooooooooooooooooooooooh. Yeah. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-04-10 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	Could this mean we get British Betsy back?! I don't think that's likely; Asian Psylocke has become the iconic version of the character. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-04-10 12:18 pm UTC (link)
	But she's hardly been used properly for the past few years. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xlineartx 2009-04-10 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	I thought she was British and of Asian descent? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-04-10 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, no, certainly not. By birth, Psylocke was a white woman with blonde hair (often dyed purple) (her brother is Captain Britain); then she got transferred/transformed into an Asian ninja by Spiral as part of a devious plot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	I disagree completely about Psylocke though...As an asian ninja, she comes off as a hooker version of Elektra. As the Brit, what she actually says and does seems more important. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sir_mikael 2009-04-11 07:23 am UTC (link)
	And in her original body she also seems more badass when she can stand her own in a fight against say Sabretooth. If she's a frickin ninja who would be suprised? Not because she's asian (even tho asian=martial arts is a common stereotype), but because she is a ninja in Kwannons body. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-11 05:10 am UTC (link)
	then she got transferred/transformed into an Asian ninja because Jim Lee decided he wanted to draw a hawt ninja chick instead. Fixed that for you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tragical_mirth 2009-04-12 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	LOL. I swear, I thought it was the Mandarin that had her bodyswitched. It's been too long. Synapses switching connections. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-04-10 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	I'm confused. It's LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND - but that second panel looks almost normal. I doubt he found a picture to trace from with THAT expression. (Reply to this)

	Not a big Domino fan... kitty_tc_69 2009-04-10 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	I sure as hell would love to see Copycat again though. I'm sadly, however, probably the only person who remembers who she even was. :( (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Not a big Domino fan... schmevil 2009-04-10 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	You're not the only one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zegim 2009-04-10 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	Kwannon? Oh, my. That brings back bad memories of convoluted backstories. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suzene 2009-04-11 02:22 am UTC (link)
	Motto, motto, and motto again. (Reply to this) (Parent)