I did not think that was the way his powers always had worked because he can only have that lifesaving healing factor in his ice form. Bobby should be badly injured or dead because he was clearly blown up in human form and their was no mention about how Bobby reacted to ice-up in the conversation with Hank. It was only about how he pulled himself together. Maybe Carey has some agenda with expressing the vast Omega level powers he has because this is not a normal sequence by how Bobby lived to see another day. The reason I say this because Bobby has had many different forms in the recent while demonstrated by Marvel.
1.) He has the ability to repress his mutant gene to be "human"
2.) He has the ability to change into organic ice.
3.) He has the ability to be an abstract conscience that manifest in water.
When Bobby was blown up in Austen's run during "the Draco" we saw an explosive arrow lodged in "human" drake, before promplty blowing up... the immediate reaction to it, was that bobby was dead dead... but his body has immediately transformed (probably subconciously) into organic ice.
this left bobby with only a head for the remainder of the arc, until there was moisture in the air, to which bobby reconstructed his body.
in the next arc, we see bobby once again in his "human" form.
then bobby became permanent organic ice, and his conciousness being the only thing present in his body.
after decimation, bobby was able to shut it down revert back to "human" form and then once again regain control of his changing forms.
Now in Carey's xmen, we have something pretty similar but at the same time something new... Bobby in "human" form is blown up from the chest. What Bobby's body next did was to instantly transform into ice form, because there is one panel quite clearly showing the iced up head of bobby surrounded my melting "snow".
The heat of this bad guy then evaporated all the ice and snow, and it was from here that Bobby pulled himself back together again, as stated in his conversation with Beast.
Whats most interesting is the panel showing Mystique kissing Bobby... part of his torso is in human form, but he is still constructing the lower half of his body.
Iceman is the new wolverine :P
well not wolverine, but hes just as indestructible!!
p.s. i know bobby had conciousness in the air in Xmen Forever, but it was just kind of an emma frost showing his potential event. What bobby got out of it was knowledge that he do such things, so he returned to the Xmen with, as marvel say, "evolution on his mind". Lets just say that he never progressed further at the time was that after being punctured by Black Tom, kicking off his secondary mutation, Bobby had more concerning matters on his mind.
You mentioned Bobby being blown up in "The Draco" arc. I think thats what Blair was asking to see. The scans you posted was from the current arc of X-Men.
Edit: I believe this is what you were talking about from "The Draco" arc in Uncanny X-Men. It was in the second book of the arc.
This thread is simply awesome. I've been an Iceman fan for years, and I never knew as much as I've learned in the last few weeks in this thread. GREAT JOB GUYS!!!
In the previous issue of X-Men, Iceman faced off against someone who can draw energy from whats around him to fuel his fires. He "fed" on Iceman till there was nothing left apparently absorbing him.
In the issue that just recently came out, it appears that Iceman was inside the opponents body, laying dormant until the time was right. Iceman must have been in his body for probably up to an hour. Could have been more, but hard to tell the full length of time that passed. Anyways, heres the feat. Impresive as hell imo. I wonder how long he can stay inside someones body without them knowing it?
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