After we live Scott Lang's last day on earth, which involves an amazing assortment of cameos from the golden age of Marvel/Timely, we start the newest Ant-Man series: The Astonishing Ant-Man. It begins with Lang back in prison. But the how and why isn't yet explained. Instead, we get a very long and slow process that promises to get us there. We learn of Scott's many failed romances. He's down in the dumps security company. And of his troubles being a good dad. But nothing on how Scott ended up wearing orange jumpers.
As I said, this story is moving at a snail's pace.
In the pages of Mike Allred's FF, Scott Lang is quite heroic. He's a good leader though flawed. But at one point, he beats the crap out of Doctor Doom. The real McCoy! Not one of Victor's Doom Bots! In the Ant-Man series just prior to this; Scott has fallen on rough times, but there's still a luster in his reputation. Yet with this series, he's almost a total screw-up! It's almost like Marvel decided to make the Paul Rudd MCU the standard.
I get that Marvel wants their characters in the comics to reflect the characters in the movies. But this self-deprecating change is so all of a sudden. It doesn't gel right.
This isn't a bad volume of tales. The annual involving Hank Pym and that Last Days story at the beginning were both great. But then things get depressing after that. And it doesn't make for an enjoyable read.
I understand that things can't always be peaches and cream for superheroes. But I also can't stand it when it seems like a perpetual rain cloud is always over the head of characters I really like. Marvel has really f-ed this up with Deadpool and now it seems that Scott Lang is getting the same treatment.
I'm hoping that things either speed up so we find out why Scott Lang is once again incarcerated or that things spring back into a more positive front for this Ant-Man. I'd even be okay with the prison thing being a fake-out. You know, have Lang be going undercover as a villain in order to take some crime lord down. Regardless, there has to be better turn out of things in volume 2 or I'm not sticking around for a third entry.
Rating: 6 out of 10 stars.
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