{"id":9514,"date":"2023-10-18T19:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:44:25","slug":"astonishing-iceman-3-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9514","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing Iceman #3 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ASTONISHING ICEMAN #3<\/strong>
\n“Out Cold, part 3”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Steve Orlando<\/strong>
\nArtist: Vincenzo Carrat\u00f9<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Java Tartaglia<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Iceman in action alongside Aaron Fischer.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.\u00a0<\/strong>Aaron Fischer defends the Y-Men from Mr Clean.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mister Clean.\u00a0<\/strong>We’ve had a couple of issues of build to Orchis sending Mr Clean after Iceman – as we’ll see later, this attack is a deliberate attempt to lure Iceman out of hiding. I covered Mr Clean’s background in the annotations for the previous issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aaron Fischer.<\/strong> Aaron Fischer debuted in 2021’s\u00a0United States of Captain America<\/em> miniseries. He’s part of the Captains Network, basically an assortment of grass roots Captain America imitators intended to represent the diversity of American society, who wind up being endorsed by Steve Rogers. Fischer is one of the most prominent characters from the Captains Network, having shown up subsequently in\u00a0Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty<\/em> and had a solo storyline in\u00a0Love Unlimited Infinity Comic<\/em> #49-54. In that storyline, he gained superhuman powers from an experimental super-soldier serum created by the Alchemax corporation.<\/p>\n

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Fischer’s back story involves him running away from home as a gay teenager to escape his abusive father, and becoming a makeshift Captain America to defend other homeless teens from Roxxon. He’s a fairly obscure character if you don’t read\u00a0Captain America<\/em>, and while he does get a footnote to make clear that he’s appeared before, I’m slightly surprised that he doesn’t get a text page to fill out more of his history.<\/p>\n

The Y-Men.<\/strong> The group of superhumans that Fischer is protecting are apparently a new version of the Y-Men, from Young X-Men<\/em> #8-9. The original Y-Men were criminals who gained powers from mutant tatoo artist Leon Nunez, who could give people superpowers by tattooing them with an appropriate icon. The Young X-Men member Ink was one of his clients, and the twist was that Nunez was the mutant, not Ink. This group seem to be a completely different set of Y-Men without any criminal involvement, but they’re still from Los Angeles and retain the back story of getting powers from a mutant tattoo artist. Nunez hasn’t been seen on panel since\u00a0Young X-Men<\/em>, though Ink mentioned him in\u00a0X-Men Gold<\/em>, so as far as we know, he’s just been hanging around running his tattoo parlour.<\/p>\n

According to Mr Clean, the Y-Men here are:<\/p>\n