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Post by MDG on Apr 3, 2023 9:25:49 GMT -5
Scott Lang is a more interesting character, but Hank Pym was much better at using the powers.. I especially like him later in West Coast Avengers. I'd say that story where he tried to come back after being disgraced and became a science/gadget guy... then he had that relationship with Firebird and they talked about some religion, which I thought was interesting. Hank had a shining moment in Avengers 93 A quick search reveals that that was in November 1971, over 50 years ago. Certainly he's had chances to do something notable since then.
On the other hand, I've never heard of Scott Lang.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 3, 2023 9:52:18 GMT -5
Scott Lang has more life in the movies than in the comics.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 3, 2023 10:08:12 GMT -5
Scott Lang was Ant-Man when I got into comics. Hank was Yellowjacket.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2023 10:23:35 GMT -5
Hank Pym as Ant-Man.
If we were talking the Giant-Man/Goliath alias, I’d go Bill Foster.
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Post by majestic on Apr 3, 2023 14:15:00 GMT -5
Hank as Giant-Man. Scott as Ant Man.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 3, 2023 14:29:18 GMT -5
I liked the way Hank Pym evolved as a masked adventurer and went from Ant-man to Giant-man to Yellowjacket. He seemed to be the only character to change his identity and keep it changed. (I didn't much care for his later incarnations, as they were all pretty much the result of his guilt over something or other... and I can't say I'm a fan of the "Hank Pym is a wife-beater riddled with guilt and self-loathing" school).
I think Scott Lang did a very good job in the Ant-man role. He could have kept it for good, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm happy that his daughter continued the Pym to Lang legacy by becoming "Giant-man" after a fashion.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 3, 2023 17:34:55 GMT -5
I didn't care for Cassie becoming a superhero as well.
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 4, 2023 8:55:15 GMT -5
Scott, he is on one of the best Avengers covers (Avengers 223), he was part of Under Siege, part of Ostrander's Heroes for Hire, part of Fraction/Allred's FF (didn't care much for his run in the regular Fantastic Four title a decade or 2 earlier, but didn't care much for that period anyway) and liked his recent solo-series (oh wait, there have been more solo/duo-series with him since then. I'm talking about the 2015 one) and I'll probably will read the Al Ewing Ant-Man mini-series once it's collected (but that one had all the different Ant-Man's as far as I can tell from the covers). As a character he's a bit more original than another super-scientist and he fits nicely into the "regular guy" role in teams, with generally, as a father, being a bit older than the usual "regular guy" characters in comics.
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Post by tonebone on Apr 21, 2023 14:17:12 GMT -5
Of the two options given, I'd probably say Hank Pym just because he was the original Ant-Man. But honestly, I don't really feel like anything very interesting was ever done with either character. But really, the only Ant-Man I've ever enjoyed reading was Eric O'Grady, who starred in the Irredeemable Ant-Man series in the mid-2000s. He was a heel and a pervert, but at least he was interesting and his comics were pretty funny. I thought about the irredeemable guy. The series would never fly today in our over sensitive world. You're sadly right.... and it's a shame. The character goes through a satisfying transformation from creep to reluctant hero... and you can't have the hero without first having the creep, in his case.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 21, 2023 15:43:36 GMT -5
I thought about the irredeemable guy. The series would never fly today in our over sensitive world. You're sadly right.... and it's a shame. The character goes through a satisfying transformation from creep to reluctant hero... and you can't have the hero without first having the creep, in his case. Well, a person who peeks in on naked women taking showers could never become a hero in this current climate.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 21, 2023 18:11:40 GMT -5
You're sadly right.... and it's a shame. The character goes through a satisfying transformation from creep to reluctant hero... and you can't have the hero without first having the creep, in his case. Well, a person who peeks in on naked women taking showers could never become a hero in this current climate. Cancelled-Man
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Post by tonebone on Apr 24, 2023 8:27:33 GMT -5
Well, a person who peeks in on naked women taking showers could never become a hero in this current climate. Cancelled-Man Or cANTcelled-Man . . . . I'll show myself out....
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