I see! It looks like people already got their hands on it and Rogue's new skills make her look like an anime character lol.
and i mean that in a good way
Skill Preview 1 and 2
Skills focusing on show casing the borrowed Psylocke, Nightcrawler and Storm powers.
Skill Preview 3
I'm unsure which powers she's pulling from here, but it's meant as a counter-attack type skill. Perhaps Apocalypse?
Skill Preview 4 and 5
Mostly Storm-based skills here, though the gravitational pull and energy blast make me think she's pulling more from Apocalypse as well.
She really looks awesome with these skills. It reminds me how fun it is when writers have her absorb multiple characters against a really powerful villain. I'm surprised how infrequently that happens in the comics. The most iconic instances I can remember is her fight vs Nimrod (1985) and vs Bastion (2010). And those are decades apart lol!
In
Excalibur related news I unfortunately broke my self-imposed hiatus on the title and bought today's issue despite my lukewarm feelings on the preview.
spoilers:
It was... not a bad issue but not exactly a good one either. Rogue gets a lot of focus as the POV character as Betsy is hinted to be an imposter despite various telepaths being unable to sense anything wrong with her. We also finally get some development toward mutant magic, if only it being Rictor telling Rogue that even if she dislikes getting information or knowledge from Apocalypse; the way he sees it, its their inheritance as mutants. Betsy suddenly attacks Rogue and Rictor after hearing that one of the spells may be able to reveal her true identity. Not-Betsy somehow gets the drop on Rogue despite not having her CB uniform and not having superstrength...? But Kwannon interferes and confirms it's not Betsy Braddock.
Also Jaime apparently has spare Betsy bodies around his home. Yep... still definitely a creep.
Anyway not a great showing for Rogue, especially Betsy somehow being able to overpower a class 100 Rogue, but it's the best written Rogue Tini's been able to give us in a while. |
end of spoilers