tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post3882387541299375719..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: Review: All-New X-Men Vol. 7: The UtopiansCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-38730420718397173392015-09-13T15:17:35.579-07:002015-09-13T15:17:35.579-07:00Iceman has always struck me as a powers-flipped Hu...Iceman has always struck me as a powers-flipped Human Torch, so outing him as gay seems pretty odd.<br /><br />Maybe Bendis did it because he's a teen, and all teen teams seem to require a token gay member nowadays like teams had a token black in the 70s.<br /><br />I find it interesting that you mention not knowing most of the Utopians when three of the only mutants I like (Elixir, Karma, Madison Jeffries) were on the team. Maybe Madison needs to go back to being Box.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021943379915718040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-15399558129571338502015-09-13T05:37:57.965-07:002015-09-13T05:37:57.965-07:00I am mostly a DC reader, but I had been thinking a...I am mostly a DC reader, but I had been thinking about reading this series. I loved Bendis work in Ultimate Spiderman (both Peter and Miles). I think he writes teenagers really well. Your article makes me think twice, though.Farseerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02596454696888505022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-42544582040241552002015-09-13T03:34:46.586-07:002015-09-13T03:34:46.586-07:00I did read all the way to the end of his Daredevil...I did read all the way to the end of his Daredevil, and (from memory) that does have a proper ending that broadly fits with the theme and plot of the overall run. This being corporate serialdom, it doesn't really "finish" Daredevil's story, but ties off the run and sets up a new status quo for his successor.<br /><br />The Iceman thing does sound, as the kids say, problematic. But the way you describe it doesn't entail, per se, that being gay is a choice. It might be developmentally fluid -- not fixed at birth -- but ultimately determined by factors outside one's immediate control. Real, straight Iceman and offbrand, gay, sure-to-be-eventually-sidelined Iceteen do share DNA, but their developmental histories diverge at the point when Iceteen gets pulled to the "future"/present. So it could be that things happening to Iceteen post-divergence make him gay -- or alternatively that things that happened to "our" Iceman after the point in the timestream where his counterpart got pulled to the future made him straight.<br /><br />Beast had a long-term on-again off-again girlfriend, Trish Trilby...and probably pined after some beatnik waitress in that cafe they used to hang at in the 60s...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com