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On one level, I kind of conceived this as a potential last hurrah for Nick Fury. This wasn't part of the brief, it was more a case of me going like, well... Because of one of the things I don't like about the convoluted nature of Nick Fury is that, okay, we've introduced his son and then we're sort of leaving his son on the shelf a little bit all the time because people are kind of still very much in love with the original Nick Fury. So you end up with this kind of weird situation where they're BOTH on the shelf. -- Al Ewing

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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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laughing_tree

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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laughing_tree

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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shakalooloo

Now, it's no hot take to say that Al Ewing is a great writer, but WOW, there's no amount of praise sufficient for how well artist Tom Reilly is nailing the style of the different eras he's emulating in this series.

In this issue, the overdue return of what I consider to be the best-looking Ant-Man suit (love the antennae!) and finally answering the question of whether G.I.Ant-Man was a terrible pun conceived by Hank Pym or his skrull imposter, Criti Noll...

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laughing_tree

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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numeronone

"It's the most common answer -- I'm a fan. I've been a fan of the character from way back before I even got work at Marvel. But when I say a fan of the character, I have to qualify with which Ant-Man I'm talking about and when. I mean Hank Pym and a particular '60s-era Hank Pym from those old black-and-white Essentials collections that printed 500 pages of old comics in these big black-and-white phonebooks. 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."

- Al Ewing

( Ant-Man #1 (of 4) )

laughing_tree

It’s about the ways that superheroes and the stories around them can become lifelines. If I’m going to be really sappy about it (which I absolutely am), I get to give one of my favorite heroes the same kind of touchstone he’s been to me over the years. I’d say it’s a dream come true, but given that I’m the kind of uptight overachiever who overidentifies with Scott Summers in the first place, maybe also a bit of an anxiety dream come true. -- Jay Edidin

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Entries tagged with creator: tom reilly

Fury #1 - "Who Is S.C.O.R.P.I.O.?"

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

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

Ant-Man #2 - "Imposter Syndrome"

Ant-Man (2022) #2 - Eric o'Grady

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

"Who Is The Ant-Man? What Is The Ant-Man? Why Is The Ant-Man?"

Marvels Snapshots: X-Men #1 - "And the Rest Will Follow"

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