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Marvel’s Iceman Getting His Own X-Men Series

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One of Marvel’s most popular mutants is racing into their own series come August. Announced by Marvel on Friday, Bobby Drake will return in a solo series titled Astonishing Iceman, acting as part of the publisher’s overarching Fall of X event later this fall. The series is being written by Steve Orlando with art from Vincenzo Carratรบ.

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“Have I not been saying my next Marvel project was cool as hell?” Orlando said in a statement from Marvel. “ASTONISHING ICEMAN has been not just a joy, but a challenge, and the best possible kind….because the FALL OF X means Iceman’s life is more dangerous and harrowing than ever. But Bobby is a hero to the core, and there’s no danger he’s met in whose face he won’t laugh. When it’s more dangerous than ever to be a hero, that’s when Iceman’s at his most heroic! And with Jesรบs Saiz and Vincenzo Carratรน joining me on this-Iceman’s going to look cooler than ever. See what I did there?”

What is Marvel’s Fall of X?

Fall of X is being hailed as the next big era of X-Men storytelling after the Dawn of X era that launched in 2019 with Powers of X and House of X. The expansive event will start later this year across multiple titles, both part of the X-Family and not.

“Fall of Xย is going to be the next stage of our Krakoan X-Men story. As the name implies, it’s going to be a rough one for mutants,” Senior Editor Jordan D. White said during the X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years live virtual event earlier this month. “It’s not like everything has been perfect since the founding of Krakoa, but things have been relatively good for mutantkind. There’s been a bunch of things they’ve had to put up with, but they still have their own nation. Things are going well. Are those things going to continue inย Fall of X?”

The road toย Fall of Xย begins inย Free Comic Book Day 2023: Avengers/X-Men #1ย in May and continues in fourย Before the Fallย one-shots:ย Sons of X #1, Heralds of Apocalypseย #1,ย Mutant First Strikeย #1, andย Sinister Four.ย The event officially kicks off in July’s giant-sizedย X-Men: Hellfire Galaย #1 one-shot, continuing throughย a lineup of new and existing titles, includingย Immortal X-Men, X-Force, Realm of X, andย Wolverine.ย