An Original X-Men Member Just Got a God-Tier Costume Upgrade
Warning: spoilers for Marvel's Voices: Iceman #3 are ahead!
One of the X-Men's iconic original team members, the Omega-level Iceman, was recently given a truly legendary God-Tier costume upgrade, courtesy of Bobby Drake's unlikely ally, the Asgardian God of Mischief, Loki. While Bobby's new Asgardian Ice Armor may have just been temporary, it is a wonderful representation of the growth he has down throughout Luciano Vecchio's Iceman, establishing Drake as a complex queer mutant legend who continues to aspire to be the best hero he can be.
The first two issues of the Marvel's Voices: Iceman Infinity comic have focused on Bobby Drake continuing to come to terms with his sexuality, and how that fits into Krakoa's new incredibly queer society, as well as his place as a mutant hero who is not currently on any team. Bobby has rekindled a romance with his time-displaced ex-boyfriend Romeo, continued to rely on his maybe-not-so-healthy relationship with Christian Frost, and most recently discovered his anti-gay, anti-mutant father had passed away after refusing to use lifesaving Krakoan medicine.
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As Bobby is discussing his recent growth, and the death of his father, with Christian in his apartment he is suddenly spirited away to a dungeon, where he finds Loki in chains and a young mage attempting to cast a powerful spell. Iceman teams up with Loki, Marvel's resident bisexual God of Mischief, to try and take down the mage, but the powerful wizard casts a spell to send the unlikely duo to an icy mirage of Jotunheim, Loki's home realm. Suddenly, a terrifying mirage of Laufey, Loki's Frost Giant father who he killed back in War of the Realms appears, and
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