Iceman #5 sees Bobby Drake, aka Iceman of the X-Men go head-to-head with the unstoppable Juggernaut, a super villain imbued with mystic power that makes him unbelievably strong and impossible invulnerable when he’s charging forward. But would you believe that’s only the second hardest thing Bobby has to do in this issue? The fun-loving, wise-cracking Bobby is also forced to get serious for a moment and finally come out of the closet to his parents.
“Telling your parents something difficult is universal. And so we just felt that’s something that someone like Bobby Drake would totally want to avoid, but have to face. And we knew that it would come after or around a brutal fight with Juggernaut, because there’s no better metaphor for the unstoppable nature of things than the goddamn Juggernaut,” Iceman writer Sina Grace told us in a phone interview. “Talking to your parents is one of the most emotionally exhausting experiences for a lot of young gay men, myself included. I just wanted him to really show off as a hero right as Bobby Drake, human being, is at his lowest point. That’s where the best Marvel stories come from, is when a hero is basically stripped of everything, and still somehow has the spirit to save the day.”
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“Telling your parents something difficult is universal. And so we just felt that’s something that someone like Bobby Drake would totally want to avoid, but have to face. And we knew that it would come after or around a brutal fight with Juggernaut, because there’s no better metaphor for the unstoppable nature of things than the goddamn Juggernaut,” Iceman writer Sina Grace told us in a phone interview. “Talking to your parents is one of the most emotionally exhausting experiences for a lot of young gay men, myself included. I just wanted him to really show off as a hero right as Bobby Drake, human being, is at his lowest point. That’s where the best Marvel stories come from, is when a hero is basically stripped of everything, and still somehow has the spirit to save the day.”
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