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Iceman 4 Review

And.. Iceman #4 continues the trend that we've seen before. Thankfully the art gets a little better in this issue, but story is still lacking.

So kid from issue 2 earlier who is apparently "Zack Attack" now has run off with Daken because he wasn't happy at the school for some reason? And can now use his powers openly. This really made no sense especially since the kid wasn't developed at all. We have Bobby talking about how this kid is all about gaming and living in his room, but Zack wants to be free and see the world? Honestly this just shows how little Bobby really knows about this kid and how he SUCKS as a teacher and as a guidance for future X-Men. We saw this before and it's really disheartening in his own title to see Bobby being so.. incompetent. We should be building him up, not tearing him down.

So anyhow Bobby comes up with some scheme to get the kid back by wearing a suit. He runs into Daken, serial rapist, out of no where and realizes the kid has been seduced by Daken and Daken has randomly started his own young mutant training program? Again this is way out of the blue and makes no sense, but hey.. roll with it. It'll all pay off with nothing and probably never be mentioned again in any other X-Men title. While Bobby quickly defeats Daken, a nice addition for a change, we of course get the Apocalypse name dropping again cause apparently in all the years Iceman has been a hero and a member of the X-Men, X-Factor, New Defenders, and Champions his only real accomplishment and baddie he's taken down was Apocalypse once. Bobby tries to convince "Zack Attack" to come back to the mansion by talking down to him and treating him like he's stupid, which obviously works wonderfully and Zack escapes. Daken is seemingly trapped, but Daken basically tells Bobby he's a useless wannabe and Bobby just takes it.. sorta?

Bobby comes back to the school and is like "Well good thing the kid is gone. Didn't like him anyway" and Kitty is talking about something else. They talk across each other until Bobby's parents come through the door and Bobby blurts out that he's gay. So yeah.. we've had 4 issues about Bobby coming out, 3 dealing with him coming out to parents whom he hasn't really spent time with since he was at least 16 (I think he was actually 13-14 when he joined the X-Men as the youngest member). So why is this a big drawn out thing to come out to his parents, who haven't been much of parents, don't really like him, and he doesn't like much either? I just don't get this.. at all. On any level. Can someone explain to me why we're wasting so much time with this awkward/weird coming out that was completely and utterly unnecessary? Wouldn't the story have been served much better by making it a quick one and done thing, if it even needed that? (I really contend that Bobby coming out to bio family is VASTLY less important than his coming out process to his real family, the X-Men, but obviously not to this writer who.... doesn't seem to know much about the X-Men).

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