CBR: X-POSITION: Matt Fraction

CBR interviewed Matt Fraction on the crossover which includes a preview page of Emma disciplining Psylocke’s new costume courtesy of Dodson. Emma was mentioned twice, but only once as part of a question. I’m also including something from Fraction.

Could you explain the scene in “Uncanny X-Men” #511 where Jean Grey appeared to speak to Emma Frost? What exactly was happening in that scene? I was a little confused by it…
Matt Fraction: What? Jean Grey is dead. How could she speak to Emma?

Also what was your thinking behind bringing back Psylocke’s original body, only to fry it and put her back in her second one? Nothing against “Asian Psylocke,” I’m just curious…
Matt Fraction:To be brutally honest? I saw more value in bringing a character of color into the book than yet another white face. When I came in there were a whole lot of dudes and a whole lot of white folk around; I wanted very much to diversify the genders and the colors of the team somewhat without turning the thing into a Benetton ad or the cast of “Voyager” or whatever. I figured, since we were already asking people to buy a story in which a magic, bodiless psychic spirit performed a grand act of transdimensional psychic necromancy, that your suspension of disbelief had either long ago shattered or was impervious to anything I could throw at it…so why not?

Besides, going forward with Psylocke, we’ll see that while she might look the same on the outside, inside is a different matter…

For more Fraction and a look at Psylocke’s new costume, click here.

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