#greycrow

Everything looks like a happy ending for Kwannon and friends until she sees the facial horror that looks like Junji Ito's Tomie!

X-Men #5 - "Psychic Rescue in Progress" (2024)

Kwannon is Psylocke, a Japanese psychic antihero gifted w/ the mutant powers of Empathy, Telepathy & a degree of Telekinesis; while The Hand trained her up to be a ninja assassin (by the name Revanche), she later reformed & joined the side of the X-Men; a traumatic psychic mishap left Betsy Braddock trapped in her body for years; yet, when she did finally regain her autonomy, it wasn't long before she rejoined the fight against mutant oppression & other evil, alongside the Hellions, as well as heroes like the Marauders, X-Men & Avengers!

You know that comic run that'll make you a lifetime fan of a character, and you'll always call back to it as the reason for your love? This run is not quite that, but it comes very close.

Psylocke was an assassin, a killer for many years before she joined the X-Men. But the stains of violence still haunt her, and now that she has learned there are those preying on mutant children, nothing will stop her from enacting that violence on evil men.

One thing I really appreciate about Alyssa Wong, they keep adding non-binary characters to every run they write, of all sorts. The central trio of Psylocke, her assistant Devon and her boyfriend/friend with benefits John Graycrow make for a nice, rounded set of main characters. The villains they go up against are usually pretty good, but the final villain is tied very closely with Psylocke's backstory, which makes the ending feel more rounded.