A deadly house invasion is underway for one of Marvel’s original X-Men. The cybernetically augmented Paul Botham, also known as the evil Mister Clean, besieges the titular hero and his lover Romeo in the novel Astonishing Iceman by writer Steve Orlando, illustrator Vincenzo Carratú, and colorist Javier Tartaglia. Mister Clean has finally launched what Orchis hopes would be their last offensive against one of their most formidable and dangerous adversaries after following Iceman to his stronghold in the Antarctic.
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Even while Orchis has been actively opposing mutantkind for a long time, even before their recent ascent to prominence, the anti-mutant military group didn’t really establish themselves as a major player in the world until their attack on the most recent Hellfire Gala. In addition to eliminating characters like Jean Grey with their attacks, Orchis and her operatives drove the remaining mutants to the furthest reaches of civilization. Many, like Kate Pryde and Kamala Khan, prefer to fight their oppressors in secret whenever possible, but others, like Bobby Drake and Nightcrawler, have adopted a far more visible strategy. Even though Iceman has played a significant role in sabotaging many of Orchis’s initiatives, his contribution to the battle has been limited by his erratic physical condition right now.Similar to several instances, Iceman was on the verge of death during the Hellfire Gala, as Orchis thought they had managed to extinguish him.Rather, Iceman’s mind was still carried by the individual molecules that made up his body, even though they were dispersed to the wind.Although Bobby can reconstruct himself as a single entity with Romeo’s assistance, Iceman has found that it is more difficult to sustain that shape over time.As a result, he has had the freedom to battle Orchis wherever in the world, apparently at random, but only for brief periods of time before having to vanish and head back to his castle in Antarctica.
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