Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (Jan. 1996):
“May We Bang You?”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon: A Hero's Welcome

Title: “May We Bang You?”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1996

Publisher:
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

16 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Icon (Augustus Freeman) (lead character)	alien	The Shadow Cabinet		73
Rocket (Raquel Ervin)		black; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [Icon's partner]		58
Brickhouse (Marta)		black; Blood Syndicate...  League of Superteens		40
Third Rail (Pui Chung)		Asian; Blood Syndicate...  Korean; League of Superteens		44
Boogieman (Martin Berger)	Jewish	Blood Syndicate		44
Wise Son (Hannibal White)	Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)	black; Blood Syndicate		59
Noble		[with Raquel (who became Rocket), tried to rob Icon's house]		8
Darnice		[Rocket's close friend; temporarily replaced her as "Rocket"]		10
DMZ		black; Blood Syndicate		57
Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.)	LGBT	black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		56
Flashback (Sara Quinones)		Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  League of Superteens		53
Masquerade		black; Blood Syndicate		31
Blood Syndicate		[gang]		61
Dogg	uplifted animal	Blood Syndicate; dog [normal dog made intelligent by Big Bang Q-Juice]		37
Grandma Ervin		black [Rocket's grandma]		2
Amistad Augustus Ervin (mentioned)  Having recently learned she is pregnant (by way of Noble), Rocket contemplates whether or not to continue with the pregnancy and keep her unborn child.		black [child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket]		6

This comic was reprinted from: Icon #5 (Sep. 1993): "May We Bang You?".

This trade paperback collects the first eight issues of the original Icon series. For more information please see those descriptions. This book contains a foreword by Reginald Hudlin. A new printing volume was published in September 2009.

Notes from original source:
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=189&):

Icon confronts the Blood Syndicate to find out the scoop on the Big Bang. Raquel is deciding whether to have the baby. Icon has a strange encounter with DMZ, it's hinted he is an alien also. Raquel confronts the father of her kid, Noble. Icon is pummeled by the Syndicate.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Icon: A Hero's Welcome (Jan. 1996) created 28 February 2013. Last modified 6 February 2014.

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