But sadly, this every day and not at all insane thing to try backfires on Bobby as the pool freezes solid. I am sure that, like me, you love a refreshing dip when you’re feeling extra cold. So as he enters puberty, Bobby gets cold. It’s not the last time-based shenanigan young Bobby will face, but we’ll get to that in a bit. This affects nothing, and I don’t know why it’s even mentioned. Then his body is taken over by his future self. Okay, that’s not an actual scene, but he did tell Bobby not to cry about a broken arm, so it’s not a giant leap. At the same time, his father’s eyes slowly narrowed in anger, “Your fuselage is not strong enough to withstand the pressures of high-altitude flight! Go to your room!” He screamed. Once young Bobby was jumping around yelling about being an airplane. No particular hopes for his future are listed here, but we can assume they involve being a fireman or driving a “choo choo.” Naturally, this enraged William, who told his son that “dreamers never got anywhere in life,” which made Bobby ashamed of his imagination. But then he ruined everything by learning to speak. We learn that Bobby was a very respectful infant, and while he couldn’t talk, he and his dad William seemed to get along. But there are some valuable details here as well. Most of the detailed history page is just Iceman went along with the other X-Men to fight in the Savage Land, or Lorna and Havoc kissed and Bobby got mad. So big that his history doesn’t fit on a single page. This is the first big-named character we’ve done. But I was always interested in the ideas, and there are few better examples of the principles of the X-Men than Bobby Drake, aka Iceman. The point is I should have liked comics, but I was too big of a snob, and now I’m too lazy. Though, if you think of it, people who think they are oppressed but have superpowers tracks pretty well with white people.īoth topical and this week’s winner of the “I couldn’t unsee it, and now you have to see it as well” award.įine. Of course, they were an actually repressed minority, and I was a white kid from a middle-class family. They even had heroes like the X-Men who were outcasts, and that’s how I thought of myself. I’ll just never pass up an opportunity to link to that cover). Meanwhile, comics were out there, being far, far less crappy (to be clear, I am not over 80 years old. Still, even if most of them don’t go that far, they did have a lot of dangerously regressive elements. Worse still, their political leanings often err toward the fascistic. Their characters are either so flat as to be meaningless (looking at you, Isaac), or their heroes are misogynistic Gary Stus. Now, though, I look back on those stories and wonder why. It comes around.Īsimov, Niven, Clarke, and the top result when you search for “the most insane 50s sci-fi writer,” Heinlein, were my favorites. Is it okay to dismiss comics as not books in an article targeting comics fans? Probably not, but stick with me. I never really read comics as a kid, I was a huge nerd and a big science fiction fan, but I read actual books. What does that mean? I don’t know.Īnyway, today’s randomly generated character is: I will then take only the choicest bits and serve them to you, over easy. I will randomly select a character from comics and read their wiki each week. Welcome to Comics Wiki Adventures, a weekly deep dive into just how unhinged comics can be.
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