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X-Men: Iceman
by Alfredo Alcalá, Jo Duffy, J.M. DeMatteis, Alan Kupperberg
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Basically a coming out narrative. Bobby Drake (the titular Iceman) goes home to Long Island for his father's retirement party, and there he must fight a mysterious villain named Oblivion who wants to end all time and matter. The villain is secondary to another plot, though. Bobby is having to choose between being a hero or an accountant like his parents desire. That internal conflict is a powerful one and very easily connects to a common gay conflict of being truly yourself or the person you're parents want you to be. While Bobby Drake still won't be gay on the page until 30 years after this series, it does really contend with that aspect of him in a way that makes for good reading.