tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post5403354816274064295..comments2024-03-27T13:51:16.021-04:00Comments on Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Psylocke Psaturday is Back!: Okay, who ordered a ninja in a swimsuit?Bullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-65741847984297711552014-06-30T01:16:13.477-04:002014-06-30T01:16:13.477-04:00Hey Blam Bully will get to the part that makes Psy...Hey Blam Bully will get to the part that makes Psylocke make no sense soon enough. But the actual origin of Psylockes nuasian appearance is REALLY simple. <br />When the Hand captured her, she was Brainwashed, and ONLY Cosmetically altered to look CHINESE. That's why Wolverine is able to recognize her. Because she never swapped bodies with anyone. It was still her 5' 11" 155lb body. <br />But it was a certain idiot writer, who didn't do his research who came up with the switcheroo. <br />I can't lie I did like the asian transformation at first, primarily because of the lush art, and Claremont's story But I'd grown to despise the asian Psylocke, simply because she only looked cool, and never really did anything beyodn a couple arcs for much of the 90's. Then she went and got gutted by Sabretooth, where previously she beat him in like 2 seconds flat. <br />I actually stopped reading books with her in for a long time, since no one knew what to do with the asian version, I came back to her in the mid 2000's. Now the way she's written makes up for much of the crap she's been through. <br />I do hope to see her returned to her original body one day. Getttign rid of all the tropes and stereotypes of Claremont's asian ninja woman fetish. <br />I mean he turned Kitty into a Ninja, and didn't make her asian. <br />Taziraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14009288045314604699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-60549046114958878142014-06-25T09:18:06.838-04:002014-06-25T09:18:06.838-04:00Well, it's not all THAT straightforward. I hav...Well, it's not all THAT straightforward. I haven't even gotten to Kwannon yet, but I'll cover her when the book reaches that point chronologically. Which, judging by how frequently I've been doing this feature, ought to be around 2019. I'll be six then.Bullyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-12016270839022868622014-06-24T22:12:06.320-04:002014-06-24T22:12:06.320-04:00"switcher" = "switcheroo"…
I ...<br>"switcher" = "switcheroo"… <br />I don't always catch all of the immediate spellcheck fixes-that-aren't-really-fixes.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-62357728962561721222014-06-24T22:03:31.984-04:002014-06-24T22:03:31.984-04:00I've been following this pseries with particul...<br>I've been following this pseries with particular interest due to always having wondered about the deal with Psylocke becoming an Asian ninja. My last regular issue of <i>X-Men</i> after years of rapt reading was <i>Uncanny</i> #205 in 1986. I dipped back in for a few issues on occasion since then out of curiosity or for research, but that's it, and not at all for nearly 15 years now. You can imagine how learning that Betsy Braddock — who I think I'd last seen in <i>X-Men</i> Annual #11 (picked up for the love of Alan Davis; I also got aboard the first year or so of <i>Excalibur</i> since it was free of X-Men entanglements) — had turned into this weird "kewl" orange-skinned <i>femme fatale</i> threw me for a loop. And nobody has ever given me a good explanation, largely because they said there was no good explanation.<br /><br />One of my online pals has been doing a methodical read-and-recap of all things X-Men from the very first issue. It's been fun revisiting stuff I loved back in the day, but I've also looked forward (with some trepidation) to finally picking up from where I cut ties and reading for realz all the stuff I only heard about in passing or saw boiled down into wiki entries over the years. When you began <i>Psylocke Psaturdays</i>, I wasn't sure who'd get to this point in Elizabeth's history first; you did, barely, as my friend's series is about a dozen issues into the Outback era. I almost didn't read this post, because I'll get to <i>Uncanny</i> #256 contextualized in the larger narrative early next year, but I couldn't help myself. It appears that Psylocke's transformation into a ninja is fairly straightforward, at least if you're used to taking superhero comics in stride, which makes me wonder why I don't recall hearing about the Lady Mandarin deal before. Perhaps the friends I asked got hung up on the Asian part, which if I'm reading right is <i>not</i> explained (and may be Japanese, which ninjas are by heritage, or Chinese, which Mandarin is). Discovering that the whole thing is actually part of a story and not just a sudden artistic choice is perhaps more bizarre than such an unexplained switcher could ever be. <br /><br />None of which has anything to do with the most pressing question at hand: What the heck is Betsy's silhouette doing in that first panel?<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.com