Is bobby drake gay
COMMENTARY: The Icemen Cometh Out: The Queering of Bobby Drake
Why Iceman coming out matters more than you might think. A commentary on the generation gap between the Bobbys and the necessary effects on identification and representation.
June is Pride Month, so it seemed like the most appropriate imaginable period to share my thoughts on the extremely controversial coming out of the X-Men’s Bobby Drake, Iceman. First, a little background.
Iceman is the youngest authentic member of the X-Men, debuting in X-Men #1 all the way endorse in 1963. In 2012, following the massive Avengers vs. X-Men crossover, the original five X-Men were pulled out of the past and dropped into present day, where they have been since. Each of these original, time-displaced X-Men have faced their own challenges in adapting to a modern society, and young Bobby Drake was no exception. However, being unhinged in period did afford young Bobby at least one superiority. In the 2015 issue, All-New X-Men #40, tracking some remarks about Illyana Rasputin, the mutant acknowledged as Magik, and her level of ‘hotness’, juvenile Jean Grey pulls Bobby aside and outs him to himself. Among his immediate questions is how he can b
Iceman (Bobby Drake), one of the five original X-Men characters, has been outed as gay in All-New X-Men #40 — written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Mahmud Asrar.
But…it’s not exactly the Iceman we’ve been reading about for decades, but rather his younger self — plucked from the past (shortly after the team formed) and brought to the current occasion. Sowhat does this mean for Bobby’s older self? To be determined…
Bobby has a long and complex history as one of the original X-Men since the comic’s debut in 1963. This profile will highlight on personal events in Bobby’s being instead of superheroic events as a member of the x-Men, Champions, Defenders, X-Factor, and other teams. Please witness Iceman’s Marvel entry for info love that.
The revelation in All New X-Men #40 that Drake, the second of Professor X’s recruits to the Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters, is homosexual was met with groundswell of reactions from readers who were both for and against the idea. Through events typical in comics the original X-Men team was some timee ago transported from their past into the submit day of the Marvel Universe (just a few months before the announce Secret Wars re-set in r
Knowledge Waits: The Possible Hints Over the Years That Iceman Is Gay
This is the latest in a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Here is a collection of all of the installments in the feature so far.
One of the interesting aspects of little Iceman coming out in the most recent issue of All-New X-Men (and from the sound of Brian Michael Bendis' discussions of the topic, it sure sounds like adult Iceman will be catching up with him, as well) is the notion that Iceman being gay is something supported in past comics. Bendis noted to CBR:
CBR: This story isn't something that's coming out of the sky, either. Over the years there's been a lot of hints that Bobby might not be entirely honest with himself about his sexuality.
Bendis: Yes! That's the funniest conversation online. We own some people going, "What on Earth are you talking about? Where did this come from?" Then there are other people who weren't surprised at all. Already on Tumblr, and I'm not going to repost them until later in the week, people have posted a route map of panels of things that Bobby has done over the last 50 years that prove the point that I thought was obvious,
Iceman is gay, that’s pretty cool
When a young Jean Grey took a peek inside one of the X-Men’s heads she (and we) got a bit more than we bargained for.
Bobby Drake, more commonly acknowledged as Iceman, made his debut in the very first issue of the X-Men series and has been a leading member of the team ever since. Bobby caused quite the uproar among the Marvel (and general pop-culture) fan-base in 2015 when his personality came out as gay in issue #40 of All-New X-Men.
In the aforementioned issue a immature Jean Grey peruse Bobby’s mind and discovered the fact about Bobby’s sexuality. This shocked readers as Bobby had had multiple relationships with women. It made such large news that even The New York Times chimed in with a piece about it. The younger Bobby confronted his present date self and offer day Bobby Drake that he suppressed his “true self” because he didn’t want to be both gay and a mutant.
In my own view, this was one of the most polarizing events within the comic guide fan-base. The evident group with issues about the display were conservative readers who felt duped. Let’s not waste time on them, though. What caught me off guard was that, while much of the LG