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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-15 13:30:00

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char: aurora/jeanne-marie beaubier, char: goblyn queen/madelyne pryor, char: northstar/jean-paul beaubier, char: psylocke/betsy braddock, char: revanche/kwannon, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: matt fraction, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men

Northstar! Special Returning Character!

Four scans from Uncanny X-Men #508, featuring surprisingly tolerable art from Greg Land.

In our first scene, we drop in on Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, currently living it up as a sports superstar

If anyone's temperament says "Chief Operating Officer", it's Aurora.

So, is Aurora coming too?

Anyway, elsewhere, Red Queen and co. have stolen Kwannon's body, and it turns out they've also got Psylocke (apparently now back from the Exiles):

There are two different interpretations of this scene in circulation: the first, that they reanimated Kwannon's body (which used to be Psylocke's) and transferred Psylocke's mind into it, or they reanimated Kwannons body and used Psylocke's lifeforce to resurrect Kwannon (thus, by implication, killing Psylocke).

Regardless, doubtless Psylocke will be alive by arc's end, and in her standard Asian body, since that's the one they make all the action figures of (and all adaptations of the character use).

From the first preview that I saw of Land's art, I thought "that looks surprisingly tolerable for Greg Land"; and, having read the whole issue, that still holds. He's still a bad artist and lazy thief to boot, but he didn't ruin the issue; I'm still using the "thief: greg land" tag, though.

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tahngarth
2009-04-15 07:21 pm UTC (link)

"Your new home" and "Your new body" do not sound like what you'd say if you restored someone to their original body. My guess is that it's going to be some kind of scam, trying to convince the X-Men this is Betsy and it isn't.

Or, you know, Fraction is just that hackneyed and doesn't realize that restoring Psylocke to her british form IN NO WAY MAKES HER A LESS CONFUSING CHARACTER at this point. Seriously, I realize that British Betsy was a more well-rounded character, and that Claremont has written Asian-Betsy horribly for decades now, but another bodyswitch really doesn't undo that.

It would make for good comedy if Betsy was really switched back and was appaled to find herself a somewhat dumpy, unathletic British girl instead of the sex symbol ninja she's used to by now. I figure there'd be a very long "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" involved ;)

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tahngarth
2009-04-15 07:27 pm UTC (link)

Actually, before I forget, there is one even worse option in this scenario, and that is some sort of retcon that Asian-Betsy was Kwannon all along, or something similar.

And uh, I should probably remind everyone involved in this comic that not ONLY did British-Betsy-Kwannon have a sword through her heart when she died, which is notoriously bad for your health, not ONLY was she almost dead from the Legacy Virus at the time... she also did not have any eyes. Because, as Chris Claremont has reminded us countless times, Slaymaster tore Betsy's eyes out when she was Captain Britain, and by the time Kwannon died she'd removed the cybernetic eyes Mojo implanted in her. She was blind as a bat.

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	colonel_green 2009-04-16 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	And Red Queen regenerated her entire body, from the organs to the musculature; her having eyes hardly seems out of place. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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