Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #4

[sharpasabowlingball]

Celebrating the Omega Level Power Couple












Fierce, sexy and adorable...everything I love to see when it comes to LGBTQ+ rep

Comments

[shakalooloo]

Reading random reporters' thoughts seems a little rude, mind.

[morallyambiguousscience]

I mean, by Krakoa era standards this is pretty tame for abuse of psychic powers against humans.

And hey, its the British Tabloids, the worst variety of scum to ever exist.

[starwolf_oakley]

I'm no expert, but British Tabloids have headlines that would make J. Jonah Jameson say "That's inflammatory rhetoric!"

[cainofdreaming]

It's their own fault for not being able to shield their minds through the use of their mutant gifts or the training of their mutant mentor.

[sharpasabowlingball]

I mean

These people work for the British tabloid press

Calling them reporters and saying they have thoughts are both charitable overstatements

The ones I feel sorry for are Rachel and Betsy. Hearing what goes on in the minds of these people must be like spending 72 hours reading nothing but Donald Trump's twitter feed

[cainofdreaming]

Wait. What's Betsy the omega of? There's people with more powerful telepathy and more powerful telekinesis. Is she the omega of focused totality?

[iamrman]

Darn. You beat me to it!

[beyondthefringe]

Maybe she's the Omega of Claremontisms.
She's gotten the overused Claremontian catchphrase, experienced body swaps and mind control, and gone from bisexual subtext to full on bisexual text.

Not that it's a small category...

[sharpasabowlingball]

I think the two of them were more than a little late to that charity gala 😏

[deh_tommy]

“Time to get super sonic.”
“Far away from a population centre.”
huehuehuehuehue

[sharpasabowlingball]

They're planning to break the bed and possibly the bedroom and house around it 😻

[deh_tommy]

So what’s this book like so far? I’ve made my opinion on Tini Howard’s prior Betsy books no secret, but the scans I’ve seen seem decent enough.

[sharpasabowlingball]

It's one of my favorite series

Second only to New Mutants: Lethal Legion

[mastermahan]

I doubt this book is going to change anyone's mind. It's better than the previous volumes thanks to Betsy having a girlfriend and not being set in Otherworld, but it still has the same plot and pacing issues.

For example, last issue made a huge deal about the Fury wearing a Union Jack and calling itself Captain Britain. This issue the Avengers curbstomp it in a few pages.

I'm with sharpasabowlingball on the excellence of New Mutants: Lethal Legion, though.

[alliterator]

I mean, it's the Avengers stopping it, so that's kind of to be expected. They don't destroy it though and the issue actually has Brian himself face it, since it's the same Fury who has been trying to kill him since Moore's run. I felt that was a pretty great scene.

[sharpasabowlingball]

I loved that scene as well, it was a nice reveal and I'm excited for the rematch next issue

I've not had any problems with the plot or pacing myself, I've been enjoying how things have unfolded

[mastermahan]

The question isn't whether it's the expected outcome. The question is whether it's good storytelling.

Issue 1: Morgan wants her own Captain Britain for unexplained reasons. Issue 2. Morgan tries to recruit an alternate Betsy to be her Captain Britain. She fails utterly. Issue 3: Morgan has a Fury calling itself Captain Britain. There's a big fight and the heroes are forced to flee. Issue 4: The Avengers, only one of whom has appeared in this series before, help Betsy and Rachel curbstomp the Fury, then stop being part of the story again. The Fury is now a Brian subplot.

[alliterator]

"The question is whether it's good storytelling."

Yes. Oh, that was easy.

You see, the Fury isn't the main antagonist. The Fury was always the subplot. The main antagonist is Morgan le Fey, who is still out there and allied with Doom. The Fury was just her trying to get what she wanted and failing again. Heck, she even understand that the Fury wouldn't work out last issue, which is why she went to Doom.

As for the Avengers only showing up in one issue...um yeah. Outside of their own book, that's pretty much what they do. Heck, the Avengers show up in one issue of Immortal Hulk to stop the Hulk and turn him over to a shadowy organization and the only Avenger who appears after that is Captain Marvel and even then for only a few pages.