![]() ![]() I have had to put down so many books that I was hoping to enjoy because of writing that left me to hurt to continue, books that I have seen lauded as Peak Representation™. ![]() There are few things I respect more than a writer who can handle such painful conversations with nuance and care that doesn’t leave the reader overwhelmed and hurting. The Drakes’ reactions to Bobby’s being a mutant and being gay remind me of my mother’s reactions to me and my variety of queerness, though my mother’s opinions are kept far more veiled than the Drakes’. ![]() The conversations are difficult to say the least. Conversations that deal with Bobby being a mutant and, in the last two issues of the volume, him being gay. Throughout Thawing Out Bobby’s antics as Iceman of the X-Men, antics that vary from attempting to help a recently manifested mutant to having to fight the Purifiers or Juggernaut, are set against multiple interactions and conversations that Bobby has with his parents. I think that’s something that every child wants, no matter how badly their parents might treat them. You want to love your parents and you want your parents to love you. Love from parents is the trickiest kind of love. (repost, because I’m an idiot with two thumbs who deleted the original) Iceman: Thawing Out written by Sina Grace ![]()
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