Last Days of Ant-Man

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[crimsonmoonmist]

"He's dead" Well, thank you, Mr. Party Pooper!

[mrstatham]

That line about having 'blood in the name and big shoulderpads'.. Just no, Nick. You're just making yourself sound like the equivalent of the disastrous comics fans who rail against everything 90's because you think it's ALL Liefeld.

[captainbellman]

Yeah...if there's anything that comes second in annoyance to too many comics being overly grimdark, it's comics that spend too much time going on and on about other comics being overly grimdark.

[beyondthefringe]

Given the sliding time scale in Marvel, I want to know just who was active in the '80s anyway. By this point, all of the modern heroes wouldn't have started appearing until sometime around 2000-2005 at least. Sure, some might have been active for longer, in secret, but the FF, the Avengers, Spider-Man, etc, can't have been active for more than 15 years by Marvel's own logic.

Okay, so you throw in the First Line and Lost Generation, which run from the 40s or 50s up through the '80s... maybe even push them to the '90s before they sacrifice themselves against that Skrull invasion.

Still, who WERE these grimdark pouch-wearing Blood-named heroes of the '80s or 90s that were all the rage? Because by all rights, the sliding timescale has moved PAST them. Any grimdark phase of heroes we get later on... probably around 2009-2010, would be like, a brief resurgence of an old trend, like invoking the fashions of the '70s ironically.

It was still kind of touching to see these old characters get one more chance to shine. While we can still logically accept that a bunch of heroes from the '40s could still be alive, given that the youngest of them would be around 90 by this point. Someone's going to have to write a story where every single American hero and villain active in the '40s was exposed to an experimental gas/energy/magic (cough, Ian Karkull, cough) that slowed their aging a touch...

[amaniwolf]

I don't care, i love this! Letting Golden Age Heroes and Villains have one more day in the sun.

[bradygirl_12]

*loves*

*giggles at supervillains pulling off robberies and the superheroes catching them*

Hey, they pay the rent, too! ;)

[lieut_kettch]

Hmm... any cameos from the surviving members of the Invaders or the Twelve?