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I don't want to just rehash at length what I've been saying about this series from the start, it's all still true.

The biggest problem for this iteration of iceman, and it's been there from Sina Grace, through Luciano Vecchio, and reaching some kind of extreme crescendo with Steve Orlando is the need to force the humor at the expenses of everything else. In the earlier cases, they stepped on emotional beats and sometimes prevented them from landing entirely, here... This is a story almost totally lacking in substance with a lead that feels a cipher in his own story. The pretty art and the jokes attempt to serve as a distraction from everything that is lacking and instead actually serve to highlight it. This is probably the best issue of the series so far, and also the worst for the same reason: Spider-Man. The Spidey stuff is the best part of the book; unfortunately there is so much focus on Spidey, including several pages with Iceman entirely absent, that this often feels like a Spider-Man book with Iceman as a guest star.

Right now it appears we have the long-awaited return of the OG Iceman as the Dragon in Immortal X-Men(in the guise of 'Apocalypse'), the impending death of the adult-version of All-New Iceman in the next and final issue of this series, and the return of the young-version of All-New Iceman in the upcoming Original X-Men #1 one-shot. Given all that, it feels like this series exists only to provide some sort of dignified exit for this version of the character rather than let his 'death' at the gala be his end. I get that, and I feel this version of the character deserved a better treatment. It's a shame that a good and compelling story couldn't be a part of that.