Ant-Man: Who's Your Favourite?

[Bubonic]

Henry Pym

Scott Lang

Eric O'Grady

Which did/do you prefer?

Now your choice doesn't have to be based on heroism, elsewise O'Grady wouldn't be up there!

I chose O'Grady, he is one of the most despicable men in the Marvel Universe who isn't officially a villain, but he's got a type of Deadpool quality which makes me laugh.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Pym. The others wouldnt exist without him.

 

[Darthphere]

Pym. The others wouldnt exist without him.

This logic baffles me.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Scott Lang. Cause He didn't beat his wife and invent Ultron and not in that order. hehe.

 

[Anubis]

Nah, he just robbed people a lot.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

yeah! but everybody needs a hobby so what's a couple of wallets and jewelry?! Plus beating up women is tres tres bad God of the dead. I mean shaking em. Okay. I can understand, but beating em! That's tres unethical. hehe

( i am kiddin about the shaking thing i am new and dont want to be disqualified from here or whatever its called when you get thrown out)

 

[Anubis]

Banned.

And dats cool. As far as I know, theres nothing wrong with condoning the shaking of women in the Hype by laws.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

cool! Cause I just worked my way up to side-kick and don"t wanna be banned for not having familiarized myself with the laws yet. Cause then I wouldn't have anything else to do while I was at work.I might have to do some work then. Besides i think he was better as YellowJacket but thats just me.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

This logic baffles me.

What's baffling about it? Pym is my favorite due to his contributions to the Marvel Universe: A unique ability, (Lang and O'Grady wouldnt even have any powers without Pym), a horrendous villain (Ultron), a damaged emotional state, marital woes...

I find Pym ten times more compelling than the other two COMBINED.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Banned.

And dats cool. As far as I know, theres nothing wrong with condoning the shaking of women in the Hype by laws.

Certainly not as far as I'm concerned.

I voted for Hank. He's my second-favorite comic book wifebeater after Super-Skrull, with Spider-Man bringing up the rear in a distant third.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, Spidey's even a sub par wife beater.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, I don't think he's sub-par--he hit MJ under almost the exact same circumstances Hank hit Jan--I just don't like him as much as Pym or Super-Skrull.

 

[Anubis]

I don't really like Spider-Man at all at this point.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's pretty tough. Truth be told, though, my love for him was fading even before OMD. He used to be my favorite character when I started reading comics. Now I'm a bigger fan of his alternaverse daughter.

 

[Dread]

Eh, I don't think he's sub-par--he hit MJ under almost the exact same circumstances Hank hit Jan--I just don't like him as much as Pym or Super-Skrull.

Marvel also hasn't made repeating this incident the sole defining moment of Spidey's life, like it has for Pym after THE ULTIMATES got hot and the founders of Ultimate (Bendis & Millar) started writing 616 comics.

If anything, "The Spider" falls under a lot of 90's Spidey comics that seem to have been editorially ix-nay'd and never mentioned in any storyline.

As for which Ant-Man is coolest, I am still thinking. I appreciate Hank as more than a wife-beater, but he was never one of my favorite characters. I read more of Scott Lang, so he has that advantage. But Eric O'Grady's a friggin' hilarious character. So I am partisan to the three of them for now.

As for my feelings on Spidey, there is a part of me that will always love the character when written well. However, the Clone Saga taught me that many times his writers and books will completely botch him in favor of some editorial mandate, so I learned to abandon the comics. OMD is another instance of that. I like the character, but have hated his stories many times over the past 15 years.

 

[Anubis]

I never really liked Spider-Man. I've always been drawn to the more fringe characters anyway. Starman makes Spidey his b***h as far as i'm concerned.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, my tastes veered more toward the cosmic and mystical side of things over time. My favorite characters mostly come from there, except for Captain America, who just rules too much not to like.

Anyway, although I voted for Pym, I actually like the costume Coipel designed for Lang best. It's the one in Lang's pic up there.

 

[Bubonic]

I've always been in the dark about Pym because I haven't read much of him at all.

I started off buying 80's comics in the 90's because I couldn't afford ongoings, plus I was a major Spider junkie and spent most of my comic money on the many Spider titles...

All I ever hear about him is that he is a wife beater and a guy who messes with peoples safety in order to inflate his ego... But I start reading the Initiative and he's interesting... [BLACKOUT]Well... He's a Skrull... So that even count now?[/BLACKOUT]

So I might of picked O'Grady just for the sheer fact that he is the only Ant-Man I've known since the beginning, and as wretched as he is, a lying, cheating, malicious guy that Taskmaster thinks is "good people"...
Well damn it, he's funny!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

All I ever hear about him is that he is a wife beater and a guy who messes with peoples safety in order to inflate his ego... But I start reading the Initiative and he's interesting... [BLACKOUT]Well... He's a Skrull... So that even count now?[/BLACKOUT]

He was interesting before that, and not at the expense of others. Read some Avengers West Coast comics or something from his return to the Avengers around the Harras/Epting run of the early '90s. He's a great character who faced a major point of adversity, overcame it, and became better for it, but Bendis ignores the 30 years where all of that happened and focuses on the backhand heard 'round the world.

 

[UK_Stu]

I voted Pym. An iconic figure in the MU, who has been sorely mis-represented in recent years. Certainly the best Ant-man as well. My favourite incarnation of him was in West Coast Avengers though when he didn't change size himself but could change the size of other inorganic objects.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My favorite was when he came back in Busiek's Avengers run and put all of his tricks together. He kept shrunken equipment on himself, used his shrinking and growing powers, and also used some tech like jetpacks and such.

 

[yenaled]

I liked Hank during that period too.

Avengers Forever kind of made me love him, seeing him and Yellojacket together was just great.

I still to this day don't understand why he was taken back to Yellowjacket.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ask Geoff Johns.

 

[yenaled]

Well yeah he did it but any number of writers have used the character since and only one to my memory (Dwayne McDuffie in Beyond!) has not used Yellowjacket.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They're all either stuck in the past like Bendis or taking their cues from Bendis' use of him. I was glad for Beyond, though. McDuffie is the only writer in recent memory who's given me the Hank Pym I know and love.