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Aug. 27th, 2022
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I honestly don't know if it's possible to redeem Hank or if we should even want to, but I do think he's the victim of a weird kind of meta-commentary. He became Giant-Man because Ant-Man obviously wasn't cool enough, and then that wasn't quite there either, so he got a new hat, and then he got even bigger but with a problem. Then each evolution comes with ramping up his problems, and his problems become about not being enough as a character in-world as well as out of it, and that leads to him committing an act of domestic violence while building a robot to attack his friends and at that point, the casket is pretty much sealed.
So I guess when I think of the Hank Pym Ant-Man, I'm thinking of Hank before the editorial dissatisfaction with him really started to crawl into his guts. Marvel might not have been happy, but Hank was -- he was just fine talking to ants, solving small-time crimes, and having a ball with his sidekick-slash-maybe-more-question mark??? He was fine. He was happy. If I could bring Hank Pym back into the modern Marvel Universe, that'd be the Hank I'd bring back in. He'd be totally redundant, obviously, but this time he wouldn't care.
-- Al Ewing
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Generation Hope #12 - "Half As Bright"
Aug. 27th, 2022 08:13 pmlaughing_tree
Generation Hope – probably one of my least remembered things, which strikes me as fair – it only landed properly as we inched towards the end of the year. The plot was basically “Is Hope Good Or Bad?” when the answer was “Her Dad died a few days before the issue started. She’s fucked up.” Only in mainstream death-happy superhero comics would that work as a twist. -- Kieron Gillen
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