After years of what might call being the class clown Bobby Drake is really getting respect but is it going to his head? Just look at Phil Noto’s cover for June’s Astonishing X-Men #63 courtesy Marvel.
Bobby has always been an omega level mutant but he just learned to push the boundaries of his ice powers. And let’s talk about Bobby’s love life. While Iceman and Kitty Pryde shared a kiss and date in Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men Bobby received attention from Warbird in Marjorie Liu’s Astonishing X-Men. (And how cool is it that Iceman is in multiple books! Bobby will never beat Logan’s record!)
This cover features Bobby as the X-Men’s Hugh Hefner surrounded by beauties like Kitty Pryde and Polaris but watch out for Mystique. It was that shapeshifter’s deadly kiss that once freaked out Bobby’s powers in stories by Mike Carey. What could this cover mean? A Bobby fantasy story?
This issue arrives in June.
By Editor