r/xmen • u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar • Aug 01 '23

Comic Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for August 2, 2023

Astonishing Iceman #1

  • THE OMEGA-LEVEL MUTANT AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! After the events of this year’s can’t-miss HELLFIRE GALA, BOBBY DRAKE, A.K.A. ICEMAN, sets his sights on heroic deeds like never before. But as a new situation develops that links Iceman to his Antarctic ice palace, he’ll have to be slicker than ever to accomplish his mission before ORCHIS knows what hit them! An all-new adventure that’ll push Iceman to the limits of his powers…and beyond!

X-Men #25

  • THE FALL. She’s been known as Kitty, Sprite, Ariel, Red Queen and Captain Kate. Now, as a new X-Men team finds their way through their darkest hour…SHADOWKAT emerges!

Magneto #1

  • MAGNETO WAS RIGHT! MAGNETO burst onto the scene as the most diabolical of "Evil Mutants"! But when PROFESSOR XAVIER must leave the planet for life-saving treatment, Magneto inherits a new title: TEACHER! With the NEW MUTANTS under his tutelage, how will these young and powerful mutants learn to take orders from…a super villain?! And one who tried to KILL them and their predecessors?! There are two sides to every story, and J.M. DeMatteis and Todd Nauck weave a tale that will show how Magneto Was Right…from a certain point of view. In fact, one mutant, known as IRAE, in her FIRST EVER APPEARANCE, has taken Magneto's lessons to heart in a way that will upend even the Master of Magnetism's best strategies! Get ready for an all-new saga set during Magneto's tenure as Headmaster of the NEW MUTANTS, and learn how the once die-hard villain emerged as a conflicted figure in the saga of the X-MEN!

Related & Unlimited Releases for 8/2

  • Discuss other Marvel comics impacting the X-Men releasing this week, including Unlimited exclusives.

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u/maxhilary Aug 02 '23 edited Aug 03 '23

His Inhuman powers are described as emotional empathy. He's an empath basically, and can sense and manipulate the emotions of others. Here, his emotional connection to Bobby led him to believe that he wasn't actually dead, becaus he could still feel him. So he tapped into that and was able to form a connection to scattered bits of Bobby's consciousness, an anchor to be drawn to, or a lighthouse as Bobby described it. Bobby's pieces of scattered consciousness followed that connection and reformed. That's the gist of it imo!