@stahlflamme: Currently, but that's not changing this history of a character that's been around for 50+ years.

@john_valentine: Its just teen iceman, you know.

This can be said about nearly any comic book character though, gay or straight. A lot of Batman fans would get very uncomfortable about the links you are trying to make.

Well, it's slightly different if this teen Iceman is meant to be from the same timeline as adult Iceman.

@john_valentine: I already saw scans on this site were they are talking about how adult iceman isn't while teen iceman is and essentially handwave it as being a special case. Do you expect Brian Michael Bendis of all people to write a logical consequence to something?

Those scans just seemed to indicate he was closeted.

You mean like these?

Gallery

I guess it could be said about any character, but some just ping more loudly than others.

@phoenixofthetides: Eh, those come from a time when that was not seen as gay. I've never seen anything from Iceman that even suggests gay and I've read every Uncanny up until 540. That's a lot of issues but I admit it isn't all. What issues are you reading that makes Iceman 'ping' as gay to you?

my thoughts exactly!

@amazingwebhead: I think the pass (their "timeline") will just be erased, but that the present will survive so they will be stuck here in some way. Maybe their older selves never did that time travel? When u write u can do anything u want, also if there is no logic...

how can the present stay intact if the past is gone?

(I will say the same thing from the preview post) O.M.F.G. Soon we will reveal that Magneto's gay since he has no children lol

@amazingwebhead: If u have cosmic powers like the PF u can do things that don't have logic and change time rules, no?

point taken

@makhai: Not really anything, TBH - I just notice that he has a lot of flawed and shallow relationships in which he is professing love, but they never seem to go anywhere nor do they ever seem to have much heat to them (kind of a pun on his codename, I guess), so of all the male team members, he seemed the most likely to end up having unsuccessful heterosexual relationships because he was not really into women. I don't really think it's either here nor there, though - that version of Bobby is so young that they could easily retcon it as him being confused during puberty.

@amazingwebhead: We will need to wait to know the truth

@john_valentine: there is more Hey mr. Bendis, which of the other X-telepaths also knew about Iceman - Xavier, Psylocke, Emma and Rachel ? If they knew, does he know that they know?

“There are thousands if not millions of stories of people who, for many different reasons, felt the need to hide their sexuality. The X-Men, with the conceit of time travel, give us a fascinating platform in which to examine such personal journeys,” says All-New X-Men writer Brian Michael Bendis. “This is just the first little chapter of a much larger story that will be told.”

from bendis tumblr so theres more to this story and its slow, maybe iceman will think jean is gay

@hopesummersforthefuture: Lol, maybe Scott will become bi and will date both Jean and Bobby at the same time

@john_valentine: @trekgrey: @koays

i said jean was being a nosy bitch

@hopesummersforthefuture: Hahahaha she was, but I like her like that

@hopesummersforthefuture said:

@john_valentine: @trekgrey: @koays

i said jean was being a nosy bitch

She's really quite an unlikeable character!

@john_valentine said:

@hopesummersforthefuture said:

@john_valentine: @trekgrey: @koays

i said jean was being a nosy bitch

She's really quite an unlikeable character!

FACTS

Hahahahahahaha

@koays: im still going to buy it......its has the utopians who r maybe the new morlocks

Not impressed with the line-up I've seen.

Not sure why half of those characters are there.

Where's the line up?

Wow. Its evident that some will defend whatever Bendis does. This is just garbage!! I don't see how people don't see stuff like this for what it is.... A gimmick. Its just like throwing in the token minority just to say you are diverse. Its a joke and I really don't see how some aren't highly offended by this.

I hope this is trashed after or during Secret Wars. I wasn't looking forward to anything from SW but I hope it erases this bullsh*t.

@poisonfleur said:

@makhai said:

Here is another scan of the scene.

Kinda hot for Iceman now....

ME TOO! YEAH

No I find it very annoying as well.

Hmm I don't know how to feel about this.

Edit: Eh..not a big deal. He is still Iceman.

@vitalius: I agree!

Iceman is my favorite character, and I have ZERO issue with him being gay. He's still one of the most powerful mutants and he's pretty funny. That being said, when Emma Frost took control of his body, wouldn't she have noticed his gay tendencies? I know the excuse would be "it was just burried in his sub conscious", but Emma was tapping into fields of his power that even he didn't know about; thus those fields were buried, also, in his sub conscious. Therefor, Emma would have known he was gay.

Question being, why wouldn't Emma tell him or scott? She likes the gay community, and she likes Bobby. And she tells Scott everything. Soooo yeah

@flashback0180: Wait, Gay Ben as in The Thing?

Maybe she didn't want to embarass him? Or maybe she just didn't care(look at her response to Benjamin Deeds coming out). Theen it's a Bendis retcon so it's likely that he doesn't know about the body switch.

I don't care that he's gay, I care more about Jean Grey continuing to be an obnoxious, intrusive jerk in every issue in Bendis' All New X-Men run. She's reached the point of being unbearable.

its bendis words not jean lol

@koays said:

@john_valentine said:

@hopesummersforthefuture said:

@john_valentine: @trekgrey: @koays

i said jean was being a nosy bitch

She's really quite an unlikeable character!

FACTS

lol its not the character its bendis and im glad hes off x-men......also koays did u get anxm40?????angel and x-23 so cute!!!!!!!

Bendis is a garbage writer

Haha TRUE THAT

@hopesummersforthefuture: They were so cute!!!!!!! I really liked this part...

@hopesummersforthefuture: Lol i don't even care anymore...this whole week was a bust the moment Kitty and Starlord got engaged.... God i want Bendis gone

@koays: there wedding wont happen for years since bedis is so slow lol :P

@koays: wait he did what? Why? :(

If comicbook companies are just going to start outting people, I think Batman should be next. We all know already. It is painfully obvious. He needs to get out of the closet. Aye eSS Aye Pee. (+)

Yup. That's why other psychics actually have manners not like Jean or Emma. (+)

Engaged Kitty to Starlord.....I believe it's because he self identifies as a space pirate who is in love with Kitty Pryde

@koays: well whatever, at least valiant is killing it

I don't have a problem with an X-Men character being gay. What I do not like is taking an established character that has a clear past of being in relationships with women and making him gay. If it was a natural progression of a story I might be able to understand and get behind it but Iceman has always been depicted as straight. I suppose adult Bobby might have have those feelings when he was younger but that was never depicted before. Also adult Bobby has had ample opportunity to hook up with a man as there was a long established history where Northstar has a unrequited crush on Bobby and nothing ever came of it.This seems more like a stunt to me than any natural progression of story.

Also what the hell is up with Jean outing someone like that. Surely at this point of her Psychic development she has come across many secrets that other people have and has not told anyone, why this one? Surely someone that can read a persons thoughts would know that sometimes that person might think something they don't want anyone to ever know, or since she can see the truth of things she might know that young Bobby might not be able to handle this aspect of hi personality. I don't like making to such a large to a well established character like Icemen or how Jean is misusing her powers. What the hell Bendis.