Monday, August 10, 2015

Ant-Man Vol. 1: Second-Chance Man

This is the first volume of Ant-Man's new series by Nick Spencer that came out after the Axis event. This is a great primer for anyone unfamiliar with Scott Lang's Ant-Man.  Scott Lang died in the Avengers Disassembled event & did not return to the land of the living until Avengers: The Children's Crusade.  The trade off of Scott Lang returning to the land of the living is that his daughter Cassie Lang who took up the name Stature when she joined the Young Avengers died in the same event that he returned in.  In this volume Cassie is alive & well this is not explained it might have something to do with the Axis event.  If there is one thing that the Ant-Man movie did extremely well was to portray Scott Lang I could literally hear Paul Rudd's voice while reading Scott Lang's dialog.    It's like the fact that Robert Downy Jr. is Tony Stark not portraying but is; or like Hugh Jackman is Wolverine.  This first volume is like a follow-up story to the origin of the Scott Lang Ant-Man & his confrontation with Darren Cross.  I am really interested to see where this series goes after the Secret Wars event going on right now.  I also want to know what repercussions this story will have for Cassie Lang & will she ever suit up as Stature again.


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