Marvel is Finally Fixing Ant-Man (But Not For Long?)
Warning: contains spoilers for Ant-Man #1
Marvel Comics finally decided to fix Ant-Man by letting Hank Pym step away from his long history of personal issues and drama. A new mini-series, launched for the 60th anniversary of the character, focuses on its rich history and legacy instead, and the first issue proves that the formula is working. However, it's hard to tell how long this will last.
Doctor Henry «Hank» Pym began his Marvel career as a perfect 1960's fiction stereotype: the «scientific adventurer» who uses his intellect and inventions to fight crime. As Ant-Man, Hank lived many of these bizarre adventures, together with his partner Janet Van Dyne, aka the Wasp, who added a romantic dynamic to their stories (albeit one plagued by many of the stereotypes of the time). After a few years, Ant-Man even became a member of the Avengers, but then he soon found himself overwhelmed by Marvel's new wave of popular heroes, who rapidly overshadowed him in terms of sales. Ant-Man never became one of Marvel's top sellers or got his own comic book, which led to creative decisions that, rather than making the character more interesting for readers as they were supposed to, ended up tainting him for decades to come.
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In July 2022, Marvel Comics launched a four-issue Ant-Man mini-series, written by Al Ewing with art by Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire. In an interview with CBR, Ewing said that each evolution of the character over the years focused on "ramping up his problems", which ultimately led to Ant-Man committing an act of domestic violence, building a robot to attack his friends, and suffering from bipolar disorder and suicidal tendecies. At that point, it
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