I'm glad to see this character back, as it was all part of the plan back when she was killed, as part of an arc to restore her back to her good ol' British self, and it was used to establish that the new villain meant business by killing off a long-standing character.
And Alan Davis is near the top of his game with his work on Uncanny, and still brings far more variance to character looks than most of the industry.
So nyah!
=)
J
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Don't get me wrong, J, I'm ONLY buying Uncanny for Davis' art... all right, I bought the Coipel arc also...
But so far, all we've gotten from those arcs storywise is a) the launch of X-23 ( ) and b) the return of yet another dead character. I find it hard to be all oogly moogly over the art when the stories are so pedestrian.
And the cover doesn't make it look like Betsy's gone back to her original appearance...
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Not only were there too many psi's, there were probably too many "suddenly you're a ninja" characters on the team at the time too...
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Feh. I recently bought a few issues of the Claremont/Coipel/Davis and the Austen X-MEN books, but you know what I realized? I don't give a fat rat's ass about any of those characters anymore. Not one of 'em. They're kind of like Madonna's music... Once I loved it, but I've outgrown it, I guess.
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Yeah, Betsy is still Asian. Just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if that's fixed before too long. On the other hand, it took four years to get through phase one of the plan.
And Ninjax? Wasn't that a Valiant Comics? *grins*
J
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Should bring back warm memories for Joey Quesadilla, then... he drew the first few issues of Valiant's Ninjax. But THIS would be NinjaX! With capital X! Because X makes everything better!!!!
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It's funny because I could swear I read an interview with Claremont last month where he states that Betsy is dead. Of course, I only scanned through UXM in the store because my time with Claremont books is over. Her hatred of Bishop is a little on the lame side, IMO.
Lash, I know what you're saying, and that's why I'm selective about which x-books I read. I did pick up Milligan's first issue of X-Men and it's decent. There was no moaning and complaining, no angsty characters, and, best of all, just about zero interplay between Rogue and Gambit. To be honest, I liked Rogue for the first time since the 1980s. You might want to give this book a try.
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Haven't read the Milligan issue yet, plan on it.
Once again, I implore all of you to pick up Whedon's Astonishing X-Men! *Choke* Petey and Kitty are back to themselves again!
Claremont, as he's been for the last twenty years, is still hit or miss with me. I like a lot of what he does and how he writes characters, but there is just so much he does that gets on my nerves...
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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well. betts was one of my favorite characters. back before she got that makeover. and bafore she was split in two, or her power was or whatever i cant even keep track. nor do i care.
her character had a solid personality/identity before she was changed. maybe whedon should've brought her back.
claremont didn't even create her did he? i am/ was a big fan of claremont...his books helped raise me but, his writing now is really messy.
i agree on alan's art, he used to be one of my favorites but lately it's really cartoony.
i think we should have a betsy wake! my favorite betsy moment was when she held off sabre tooth way back when she joined the x-man. or when she suggested they kill havok when havok rejoined the team during the marauder massacre.
somehow her being brought back just makes me think she's really dead. that her charcter will just get more and more convuluded.
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They tried at one point to explain the whole Revanche/Betsy thing...and didn't exactly do a bang up job.
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Claremont...I'm not sure if he created her, but he did have a hand in defining her character, as did Alan Davis, moreso Davis.
And of course Claremont said she was dead in that interview awhile ago, because she WAS dead.
J
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: They're kind of like Madonna's music... Once I loved it, but I've outgrown it, I guess.
Lash don't fool yourself...you may have overheard Madonna for the last ten years and need a break. You will be dancing to it again in a couple of years. Trust me.
I am glad Psylocke back but was hoping she wasn't a ninja again. Very confusing story overall. She is popular as a ninja but was hoping she was a bit more british again.
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In this case, take a bog-standard pile of shit and stick an X on it........
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