{"id":9690,"date":"2023-12-21T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2023-12-21T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:36:10","slug":"astonishing-iceman-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing Iceman #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>ASTONISHING ICEMAN #5<\/strong>
\n“Out Cold, part 5”<\/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> A shattered Iceman.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Flashback: Mr Clean defeats Romeo.<\/em><\/p>\n

This takes place before page 23 of the previous issue, and shows Mr Clean defeating Romeo while Iceman was off in New York.\u00a0Clyde<\/strong>, the guard drone was seen in issue #1, and mentioned again by Iceman as one of his security measures last iissue.<\/p>\n

Romeo<\/strong> actually puts up more of a fight against Mr Clean than you might expect from him, because it turns out that his empathic powers also extend to imposing painful emotions on people when he hits them. I’m pretty sure that’s new. I’m not entirely sure it makes\u00a0sense<\/em> – his powers don’t normally depend on touch – but it’s a nice idea, so what the heck.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-6. <\/strong>Mr Clean gloats to Iceman.<\/em><\/p>\n

This picks up directly from the cliffhanger.<\/p>\n

Lojack<\/strong> was indeed seen in issue #3. He was one of the “Y-Men” who had gained quasi-mutant powers from a mutant tattooist. His power was said to be some sort of homing \/ radar thing, so by definition we didn’t see him use it on panel, but he does seem to have glowing eyes on page 9 panel 2. The flashback panel specifically shows him shaking Iceman’s hand is at page 20 panel 4 of issue #3. He doesn’t do anything on panel that’s obviously treacherous, but Mr Clean does say on the next page that “My man’s already got a bead on [Iceman].”<\/p>\n

The description of Iceman as a “class clown” goes back to the very early Silver Age when he was initially presented as the youngest member of the team.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8 (top half).\u00a0<\/strong>Pequod tries to monitor Clean.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pequod’s dialogue has two bits of ironic foreshadowing: “Clean is my nuclear option – if he fails, I’ll see you in the janitoriial corps.”<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-10. <\/strong>The fight continues.<\/em><\/p>\n

We make sure to establish that Iceman can reconstitute his body from being destroyed.<\/p>\n

“Mr Clean” suggests that the “clean” in his name refers to being clear of mutant DNA – I think that’s new, but it makes as much sense as anything.<\/p>\n

PAGE 11.\u00a0<\/strong>Iceman forces Romeo to the escape hatch.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re reminded that Romeo has been helping Iceman to hold his body together throughout the series, and that Iceman has been doing an increasingly good job of managing it on his own. It’s not\u00a0entirely<\/em> clear why Romeo needs to be physically present in order to help Iceman reform, given the nature of his powers and the way he was able to help Iceman re-form after the Hellfire Gala.<\/p>\n

PAGES 12-19. <\/strong>Iceman defeats Mr Clean, who tries to nuke him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clean’s basic angle is that if he can’t beat Iceman, he can at least opt for mutually assured destruction that will leave Iceman’s mind with nowhere to go. This links to the data page on page 22, where Killian Devo sets out the theory that Iceman’s mind will survive as long as there’s some local water vapour that he can inhabit. Iceman refuses to be intimidated and treats this as an opportunity to prove that he can reincorporate on his own. (Again, it’s not obvious\u00a0why<\/em> he’s going to be on his own here as opposed to what happened at the Gala. In the flashback in issue #1, Romeo was present when Iceman reconstituted, but it didn’t happen anywhere near the location where he had been destroyed.)<\/p>\n

PAGES 20-21.\u00a0<\/strong>The aftermath of the nuke.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Clean is apparently dead, though there’s certainly wiggle room.<\/p>\n

Romeo escapes in the Bluebird sub… which is a little unfortunate, since Sage also has it to hand in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #40 this week. Perhaps there’s more than one of them. Note that he draws a heart on the glass.<\/p>\n

The final panel shows Pequod apparently contemplating his imminent demotion to janitorial duty for this disaster, as he foreshadowed earlier in the issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.<\/strong> Data page: Killian Devo reflects on the plot. Pequod has been marked as a failure not just for failing to kill Iceman, but for doing so in spectacularly conspicuous fashion.<\/p>\n

The “thermal satellites” and the idea of teleporting Iceman into the centre of the Earth presumably came somewhere before issue #1. The nanosentinel cloud was in issue #1, and the Element of Doom were in issue #2.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23. <\/strong>Data page: an unspecified person at “narrative ops” keeps Killian Devo up to date on further Iceman sightings. It’s not quite clear why this report is being sent direct to Devo – the author suggests that it’s because Pequod hasn’t yet been replaced, but Pequod wasn’t the head of “narrative ops”. That was Judas Traveller, until Firestar took over the role in\u00a0X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic<\/em> #117. Orlando knows that perfectly well, because he co-wrote that story, so perhaps the idea is that Pequod was always reporting direct to the higher-ups in Orchis given the importance of his mission (and its somewhat tenuous inclusion within the “narrative” remit in the first place).<\/p>\n

PAGE 24. <\/strong>Romeo gets his message from Iceman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Responding to the heart that Romeo drew on the glass on page 21.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers. This is the final issue, but unlike with other titles, we’re not pointed to any particular place to continue the plot. The Krakoan text reads ICEMAN WILL RETURN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. ASTONISHING ICEMAN #5 “Out Cold, part 5” Writer: Steve Orlando Artist: Vincenzo Carrat\u00f9 Colour artist: Java Tartaglia Letterer: Travis Lanham Design: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen Editor: Mark Basso COVER \/ PAGE 1. A shattered Iceman. PAGE 2.\u00a0Flashback: Mr Clean defeats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}