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Hank had a run of stories that were wonderful one-offs having all kinds of fun with the concept of shrinking down and commanding ants. They felt much lighter and more whimsical than other stories of the era -- they were almost camp. Of course, they couldn't last. The Wasp came in, and that was great because we got to add a little Nick and Nora Charles to it, completely inappropriate as that was, have a pair of goofballs instead of just one. Then Hank became Giant-Man, and, okay, it's starting to get a little... and then Giant-Man got a new hat... and then Sub-Mariner took his spot, and from there, it's a pretty well-charted course to ignominy and ruin. So I am a huge fan of this one, tiny, fleeting instant of the original Ant-Man, and I thought it'd be fun to do a riff on that. -- Al Ewing

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What other Marvel hero started off with a kid? At the time, he was pretty unique. Even when his daughter was dead, "dad doing his best" was so baked into him that it gave him the power to beat up Doctor Doom (while also attempting to trash Doom's mythos -- much harder to do, and Scott's come the closest aside from Doom himself.) Anyway, as a result of this, Scott can fall very far in life, but that only makes him more lovable, and the movies give him a certain degree of immunity from crossing any lines he can't return from. -- Al Ewing

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Black Ant is an L.M.D that behaves like a human being, a specific human being, except he's a worse guy than his original because Eric died a hero and Black Ant is still a bad guy, almost as if he's less capable of real change. That's some really potent, Philip K Dick style territory -- and hey, Philip K Dick wrote a story about an android programmed to believe he was a human being, and he titled that story "The Electric Ant." -- Al Ewing

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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.
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"I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values. But conversely, some of the other things you can take away from superhero comics if you’re not careful are: It’s okay to lie to people about who you really are. Or, and I come back to this one, because I still wrestle with this to this day, which is people love you not for who you are, but for what you can do for them." - Mark Waid

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"I always get a special kick out of writing male-female teams that aren't based on romance or sexual chemistry. There aren't enough of those in superhero comics, so I'll bring them to the table whenever I'm allowed." - Mark Waid

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"Everyone at Marvel knows I'm obsessed by two things: the Microverse and Cyclops. So when editor Jordan D. White wanted to do an Ant-Man & The Wasp mini-series, he knew to call me or else there'd be hell to pay." - Mark Waid

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( two pages from the preview for The Astonishing Ant-Man #12 )

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Writer: Nick Spencer
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This is a follow up to a post from March, which you can read here.

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"That issue will have its own feel. It will feel like you're reading Cassie's book for 20 pages. That was fun for me to come in and do something entirely different while still moving our bigger story forward." - Nick Spencer

Writer: Nick Spencer
Artist: Annapaola Martello

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I usually don't post or discuss previews, but... this is the one issue I've been waiting the most for. The Cassie Lang issue of this Ant-Man run...

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Entries tagged with title: ant-man

Ant-Man #4 - "Ant-Man Forever"

Ant-Man #3-4 - "The Electric Ant"

Ant-Man #2 - "Imposter Syndrome"

Ant-Man #1 - "Alone Against the Ant-Agonists!"

Ant-Man and the Wasp #4

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Ant-Man and the Wasp #1

Irredeemable Ant-Man #2

Irredeemable Ant-Man #1

Astonishing Ant-Man #13

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The Trial of Ant-Man

The Astonishing Ant-Man #10-11

The Astonishing Ant-Man #10

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