Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The Iceman Cometh Out


Stephanie Burt is a professor of English at Harvard. Her latest book of poems is “Advice From the Lights.”

Book Review | Essay
The Iceman Cometh Out

By STEPHANIE BURT FEB. 19, 2018

Sina Grace, who is gay, has suggested in interviews that Bobby’s coming out reflects the experience of men he has known. It also reflects — or just is — a way that superhero comics, at least the ones with mutants, have themselves come out: belatedly, by stages, awkwardly, slowly, still trying to find out what else they can do or be, without abandoning their older roles, and making good on the promises so many of us found there when we were young. It’s satisfying in too many ways to count, even as it leaves some of us wondering — as Kitty, and Bobby’s other friends, are wondering — how on earth it took so long.

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