Iceman is shaping up quite nicely as a very engaging and entertaining read. Keep up the excellent work! Read Full Review

This issue takes us deeper into Iceman' world when we are now seeing the struggles of being a teacher on top of everything else. Iceman #4 was fun, another personal story, and brought back a fan favorite for a short time. It means a lot that they can find a balance between his life as an X-Man and as Bobby figuring himself out. You know what to expect from Bobby, but it doesn't mean you can prepare yourself for what life throws at him. Read Full Review

Some of the dialogue is cheesy, but Sina Grace, Edgar Salazar, Ed Tadeo, and Rachelle Rosenberg make Iceman #4 one of the more memorable issues of the series by adding a hint of sexual tension in the interactions (and action of the mutant powers sort) between Daken and Iceman. Read Full Review

The middle of the issue drags on a bit, but overall Iceman #4 is a fun time with a consistently endearing hero and strong artwork. Read Full Review

Iceman and Daken make for a surprisingly effective pair. That's the main takeaway from this issue, which pits the two mutants against one another as Bobby tries to track down a wayward student. Read Full Review

Yet, there is still something missing from Iceman in the sense of direction and its future, marked significantly by breakneck developments. This series may just need more time to find a firm footing, but it seems as though that is becoming a much bigger challenge than I expected. Read Full Review

Iceman faces off with Daken when Zach, the increasingly-horrible mutant teen from #2, goes AWOL. Sina Grace's plotting and characterization are rock solid, but his dialogue is painfully contrived and not half as hep as he'd like it to be. Visually, Edgar Salazar does sterling work on settings and characters, but his pencils are robbed of their impact by Ed Tadeo's scratchy, shallow inking. There's potential for greatness here - most notably, this creative team is terrific at using Bobby's powers in smart, novel ways - but the flaws aren't overlookable. I can't really call any comic "great" when the dialogue delivers eyeball-rollers every two pages.

Been giving this comic a try, because I do like the character of Ice Man and have since the 90's when I was introduced to the X-Men in Animated Form. But honestly apart from the fact they are still going with the whole angle of having current 616 Ice Man being gay, even after they explained that the past X-Men team was actually from another universe not a time displaced version of the 616 team. Essentially meaning current Ice Man shouldn't be gay as the past Ice Man that is isn't even really a past him. Aside from all that bit of nonsense, this actual issue is bad from the writing to the artwork to the continuity and character errors. In this issue the artist seriously switches up Daken's claws from page to page, initially making them metal claws then possibly realizing mid issue they should be bone so making them bone causing major in issue errors. The characters don't hit the mark at all, none of them have me caring Bobby is just a drama queen, Kitty comes off as an idiotic teacher, the Zack kid is one of the worst written characters in comics (teens do not talk like he does). Daken is also weakly written here and is just in this book to imply some sort of relationship between him Bobby having existed or trying to set the groundwork for fanfictioners to ship them together. Also the story in this comic is just so boring, the idea of it is interesting but the way its handled and with the dialogue used just makes for an overall dull issue. Artwork is decent when not contradicting itself, the concept for the issue is an interesting concept just handled very poorly, and the whole long running arc of Bobby working up the courage to tell his parents he is gay is really just not engaging at all. Genuinely just pass this series up its not worth anyone's time. That's my thoughts at least. more