PSYLOCKE #1

[Mark Caringer]

Written by Christopher Yost, penciled by Harvey Tolibao, cover by David Finch.

Psylocke has returned to the X-Men! Following the defeat of Madelyne Pryor and her Sisterhood, Psylocke travels to Japan to re-inter her former body in its proper resting place. But when a swarm of Hand ninjas attack Psylocke and do the unspeakable under orders from Matsu'o -- the assassin originally responsible for transplanting Psylocke's mind into the body of an Asian ninja -- Psylocke determines that Matsu'o is one loose end that can no longer be left unresolved.

32 pages, $3.99.

[Mark Caringer]

I love psylocke im glad she is back, hope this series is good, but how long will it last?, im hoping for 2 good arcs

[Megalictis]

So it is intended as an ongoing, not a limited series? Or are they gonna' pull a "Jubilee" and start calling it a limited if the numbers tank?

I like the idea of starting with an arc that ties to her backstory. I just hope they remember that ol' Matsu'o is missing some pieces.

[Glutton/Weapon X-26]

She MUST breed with Logan!
SHE MUST !!!

[deepredtiger]

LOL doubt she will breed with Logan, at least not untill she is her true self again would be my guess, however that may turn out... doubt it.

As it stands now she looks like a blue Electra and I can't stand Electra! I rather have Betsy back as herself honestly speaking.

[Megalictis]

Here's why Wolverine and Psylocke won't "breed."

X-Men typically don't "breed" except for alternate universes and alternate futures, and then all the breeding is past tense and off-panel so we can skip through pregnancy, infancy and childhood and go right to "if we combine these two mutants what do we get?"

The X-Men premiered in 1963. How many pregnant X-Women have you seen in the last 46 years? How many X-Women are mothers? Zero! The closest we come is Madeline Pryor and she was only a clone of an X-Man (and not a very good mother). Compare this to the number of X-Fathers who didn't raise their children (none of them even paid child support): Xavier (father of Legion), Cyclops (Cable's dad), Wolverine (Daken for sure, possibly a Savage Land baby), Banshee (Syrin's late Da') and supposedly Colossus (thanks to another one night stand in the Savage Land). Bottom line: X-Women can't have babies and X-Men are deadbeat dads.

Apparently parenthood, especially of young children and infants, is completely incompatible with being an X-Man, and virtually unknown among super-heroes (the Richards' being the glaring exception). And given that characters age one year in four years of publishing that means a pregnancy would last for three years!
Now picture Psylocke pregnant. (And keep doing it for three years). Kind'a messes with the whole "ninja" thing. Now imagine her with a baby? A toddler? What kind of mother would she be? 20 years later when the kid is finally five years old (Marvel time) and starts school she'll be so relieved! And 72 years later when the kid finally grows up...

[deepredtiger]

Well that's ONE way of looking at it.
But a nother reason is it does NOT make good sense to have a child when half the world hates you, is hunting you down for past sins, or want's you ass on a stick because you beat them. personally in my view Wolverine is not a dead beat dad. is is NOT that simple when your Wolverine. he has way too many people who want his hide to ever be a real father in his life now. HALF the time he does not even KNOW he is a dad. THAT is not his fault. A dead Beat dad KNOWS about his children and choses NOT to give a F, NOT guys like Logan. If Logan DID know he has a child he would be there as best HE could, but that would not be a full time thing withall the teams and people after him... again... not HIS fault.

I don't know much about the other's as far as being fathers but I asume it's most likely the same thing or something like that.

There is NO WAY a female warroir could ever BE a mother and still fight. That's what the XWeman are, female Warroirs. IN History female fighters NEVER had children, Mother hood and fighting do not mix well at all. That's just common sense.

However, if it DID happen, it would have to be kept quiet untill the child could fend for it self in some way to some point.

[deepredtiger]

And another reson why the wemen won't have babies is simple THAT IS NOT SEXY, and SEX sells. Comic are created with sex in it, a woman with child is NOT sexy... so it is not a good market idea, kind of the same thing as why Marvel will never kill off Wolverine... too much $$$$ involved

[Megalictis]

personally in my view Wolverine is not a dead beat dad. is is NOT that simple when your Wolverine. he has way too many people who want his hide to ever be a real father in his life now. HALF the time he does not even KNOW he is a dad. THAT is not his fault. A dead Beat dad KNOWS about his children and choses NOT to give a F, NOT guys like Logan. If Logan DID know he has a child he would be there as best HE could, but that would not be a full time thing withall the teams and people after him... again... not HIS fault.

I agree it's not as simple as labeling Logan a "Dead-beat Dad" (like I did) but I do hold him responsible for his choices. He didn't have to be on every team on earth. There are points in his past since the X-Men where he could have made other choices.

Daken wasn't his fault, and he's doing his best. X-23 wasn't his fault, but he's also not stepping-up as much as I'd like him to in her case. Beyond the blood family there's his "surrogates," and that's where he really disappointed me. Amiko is a perfect example of a line from an old rune poem "Better not to promise than to over-pledge." He made a promise to her dying mother to look after her - not to send her off first to Mariko, then to neglectful foster parents, even though he rescued her. You could say (with lots of canon evidence to back you up) that he was protecting her by keeping his distance, but it didn't keep her from being kidnapped by his enemies - three times. At least he always rescued her as best he could. He seems to have done okay by Kitty Pryde and Natsha Romanov, but he never seemed to owe them better than he gave - except that time where he let Kitty (and Kurt) think he and the X-Men died while they hid-out in Australia. The one that still bothers me is Jubilee, because it still feels like he owes her better and he let her down, after all the critical moments where she was there for him in their brief time together, and all the loyalty she's given him. Where's the "giri?"

I guess I've always been disappointed because - back in the early '90's - I felt Marvel missed a chance to take Wolverine in a direction that they weren't (and still aren't) willing to go. Back in Australia Logan lost the X-Men, burned-out his healing factor, started halucinating, and was losing his will to live - and there was Jubilee. Logan summmed it up in Hong Kong: "Lifeline. Without her I wouldn't be here. Without her, I won't be going on." Mariko died (and Jubilee was by his side). Then he began digging up his past with Weapon X - trying to find out who he was (and she was right there with him). Silver Fox turned up alive , and hating him, and died again right before his eyes. And again Jubilee was there. He lost his adamantium, and Jubilee was by his side to pick-up the pieces - until he left. He returned in his first feral regression and her reaction when she saw him wais to promise never to leave him again! Later he was kidnapped by Viper and Kitty and Jubilee went to rescue him - but when it came to saving Viper from Wolverine by pulling him out of a full-on berserker rage, only Jubilee could do that. Then Apocalypse gave Wolverine back his adamantium, but turned him into "Death" - and it took Jubilee to turn "Death" back into Logan. Over and over again she was there for him when he was losing a part of himself. Judge Logan by his subsequent choices and actions and tell me what kind of value he puts on that?

After all the losses and the tragedies one after another in rapid succession, as one after another old enemies return to haunt him, I was hoping he'd finally see the obvious pattern in everything he knew about himself, and break it. And Jubilee always seemed like the perfect catalyst. No matter how many times he fought those old enemies, no matter who won, he walked away like it was settled, and it never was. And he knew it. And whenever he had one good thing in his life one of them always came back and took it from him. There were moments when Jubilee was the last good thing he had left, the one real thing he knew he could believe in, and it would have been the perfect opportunity to stand up and say "No more." I kept waiting for him to draw that line that no one ever gets to cross. I've always wanted Wolverine to stop running from what he had to know was inevidable and start acting like the apex of the damn food chain. If he hadn't done it for any of the women in his life maybe he'd do it for "his" child. I wanted to see his old enemies running for a change, until there weren't any old enemies left, and new enemies no longer get the chance to be old enemies. I don't care if he had to quit the X-Men and wreck half the Marvel universe to do it - I just always thought it was what he should do.

It took more than a decade, Daniel Way, a long lost son, and one enemy who's to blame for all Logan's suffering, but I think we're finally getting close.

[deepredtiger]

I feel your disappoint is due to your expectation of Logan. Correct me if I am wrong But it seems you are expecting things out of him thats he is NOT emotionally capable of giving. Logan, you must keep in mind, is a very damage person. The closes thing I can come up with in the real world is post dramatic stress syndrome, that combat solders get after fighting in wars. He IS NOT a stable minded person and this too isn;t his fault. Personally even if he was he doesn't owe Katherine Pryde or Jubilee a father figure, they are not his children and are not his wards. I respect your points on the Jubs case for sure but non of that was done by Logan to hurt her, she was there because she wanted to be and has always loved him but she knew him well and when on, she understood him well and it is MARVEL who wrote her wrong , robed her of her place by his side not Logan who treated her poorly. My guess is he would NEVER get close to Jubilee as long as Romulus and whom ever else wants his butt for what ever reason to pay for the sins of the world and kill every one he love, SHE would be the first to go if he did that. Tho I agree about some things you say for sure, One must keep in mind when dealing with a damaged person such as him he can try and even want to be what they need but most likely is not capable of it emotionally at all.

BESIDES I seen MANY stories when Logan went threw intes pain for others and never got so much as a thank you! INCLUDING the damned X MEN! it isn't like they are so thankful for him as much as they should be, in fact they are pretty ungrateful at times and take him for granted.

The one thing I DO agree on is YES he SHOULD Step up for X23 she really needs him. But again we are talking about a broken person. The one thing he CAN do is be a warrior, that's his way of dealing with having to del with who he is, what he is nd what he can and can't do. If he is going to be broken then at least he can put some of this to good use, so that's why he joined all the teams as well as other reasons too.

People that know and love him and want to be around a guy like that HAVE to be able to accept that he may not be what they want and need, it takes a special person to be friends with a guy like that. People tent to forget just how MUCH damage was done to him, the kind you can't see. Know what I mean?

[deepredtiger]

And I do agree with most of the last half you wrote and I am thinking that it is getting to that point. part of the reason he can't see the patterns is because he isn't clear on just who or even what he is, that's a LOT of his problem it's like "THEY" don't want him to know and do everything thye can to see that he stays down because once he know and can act... they are history. that's my guess

[Mark Caringer]

Marvel Comics has announced a second printing for the sold-out Psylocke #1.

The new printing will feature Harvey Tolibao's interior art on the cover and will be in stores on Dec. 23.

[Megalictis]

Tolibao's art reminds me of the work of Barry Windsor-Smith.

[weaponx23]

Pyslocke Rocks!! I'm glad she is back. I would be happy if Pyslocke were to fall in love with Wolverine.

[deepredtiger]

Not me. She'd only end up either dead or returning to her own body and dump him. If she get's together with him, she better fully be herself.