Unveiling Marvel’s Latest Flashback Miniseries Starring Psylocke

Comic Book Movie announces Marvel has another Tim Seeley-penned miniseries coming up following his Rogue: The Savage Land story, this being a miniseries starring Psylocke in the Asian form she’d taken on around 1989, and appears to also involve a woman who’d been part of Daredevil’s history penned by Frank Miller:

A secret chapter of X-Men history is revealed this January in the pages of Psylocke: Ninja, a five-issue limited series written by Tim Seeley (Rogue: The Savage Land) and illustrated by Nico Leon (Marvel Rivals: Infinity Comic).

Following recent hit series like Rogue: The Savage Land and Emma Frost: The White Queen, Psylocke: Ninja further explores and adds startling depth to a character’s most defining era, taking place shortly after Betsy Braddock’s transformation by the Hand in the early ‘90s that turned the X-Men’s posh telepath into a deadly psychic ninja.

Before she rejoins the X-Men, Betsy’s new body and skills are put to the ultimate test when she’s targeted by Marvel’s most lethal assassin: Elektra!

The question here is whether Elektra Nachios is portrayed as reformed, because that’s what first took place the year after she died from Bullseye’s assault, and was later resurrected by the Hand. By 1994, when she turned up again in DD’s series, she’d continued her reformation. That having been said, it’s admittedly interesting how Marvel wants to revisit some of these eras, which some might interpret as an attempt to show they respect continuity as it was up to the early 2000s, but it’s still not enough to convince Marvel’s worth reading again. Even DC could be doing similar harkenings back to storylines written up to the early 2000s, and it still wouldn’t make it okay to just buy their stuff after how bad they’ve become with their wokeness.

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