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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Nobody knows yet. They've been building up that reveal for a year now. We're at the next event and they still haven't revealed it. Whatever it was, the one sentence that can make Thor immediately lose his Worthiness the very second he hears it is going to be disappointing after all the build-up it's gotten.
edited 29th May '15 11:43:15 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Wait, shouldn't they put up some Scott Lang stuff to promote the movie?
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHe wasn't but now he's going to be.
THE POWER OF MOVIES. Or non-comic media in general. The public consciousness of these characters is driven far more by tv shows, cartoons and movies than the actual books.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersPym goes by a lot of names. He's been Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Yellowjacket, and a few others. He's even been Wasp, because Wasp died so he decided to honor her by becoming her. And then he made a school out of her corpse.
edited 29th May '15 11:54:31 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.In the grand scheme of things, I'd reckon most people won't have any idea who either of them are before seeing the movie.
edited 29th May '15 12:01:51 PM by comicwriter
They don't want people to pick up old Lang stories. They want people to pick up his new series that's out once a month on average.
At least AFAIK. I haven't checked if there's a Lang Omnibus coming later.
Pym is already pretty much killed off in the comics since they had him get absorbed by Ultron so they don't have new stories to promote with him.
edited 29th May '15 12:09:16 PM by LordofLore
Marvel should put up the first issue of Disassembled for recommended Ant-Man reading.
Because it'd be funny.
To me.
And probably only me.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe reason they are releasing so much more Hank Pym stuff is just a numbers issue. Hank has a much larger backlog of published material than Scott does, since like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel didn't really give a shit about him until he got a movie deal. So there really isn't much TO reprint from his published history.
edited 29th May '15 12:05:36 PM by comicwriter
Searching in the wikipedia a bit, Pym never gone by Ant-Man for more than 2 years straight (even in the very start, he changed into Giant-Man in his second year of existence). And he used that identity very sporadically in his 50 years of existence. From what I could tell, he mainly uses either Giant-Man or Yellojacket, although of course he have used other names as well.
Scott, meanwhile, have been Ant-Man almost constantly since he was created 79, with the notable exception of when he was dead, in the 2000s.
Basically that. No one knows who Ant-Man is, but those who do, will think of Scott Lang, not Hank Pym.
Even in the cartoon, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Hank switched to Yellowjacket in the second season.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's noted on the Hilarious in Hindsight page but at one point Scott was actually killed off alongside Hawkeye and Vision because Marvel considered those three "dead weight" since they didn't have movie deals like Spider-Man and Wolverine.
Oh how the tables have turned!
edited 29th May '15 12:07:18 PM by comicwriter
Yep. That was Avengers Disassembled, which Bocaj was joking about before. All three were victims of the Scarlet Witch going crazy.
edited 29th May '15 12:08:39 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.excuse me while I choke on my unfathomable rage.
okay.
That does make me realize that the Ant-Man 'family' of powers and identities are pretty expendable. Probably because of how many there are. Bill Foster, Scott Lang, Cassie, Rita Desomething, Eric O'Grady.
Shrinky growers die a lot is what I'm getting at.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThat's because the Ant-Family is more valuable for what they've done than what they are. It's hard to imagine the Marvel U without Pym Particles, but much like the Fantastic Four, the shrinky-growers themselves work better as supporting characters than lead protagonists.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Oh, I forgot Wasp. And I guess Hank fusing with Ultron and flying off to be sad in space sorta counts.
Vision isn't a shrinky grower but he's had awful shit happen to him repeatedly.
So yeah. Never be connected to Pym. It ends poorly.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIIRC it was Brian Michael Bendis that came up with Disassembled to get people to notice the Avengers book with all the deaths and new team members. Others wanted to retire the characters and replace them but he thought it was better to go for the shock value of killing them.
I think Wonder Man is also connected to the Pym's somehow and he has had tons of bad stuff also happen to him. Still a dick.
edited 29th May '15 12:23:29 PM by LordofLore

Hrm...