Astonishing Ant-Man #12 Review

Writer: Nick Spencer / Artists: Brent Schoonover, Ramon Rosanas / Marvel Comics Y’all wanna know why Ant-Man is the most underrated book? Y’all wanna know why Nick Spencer and Roman Rosanas’ character depth for Scott Lang is top notch? This creative team continues to go left with the MVP Everyman of Marvel. We usually get takes on heroes being brilliant and getting out of jams, avoiding having to take serious hits in their life, or just skating by obstacles in the personal life or hero life. We don’t have that with Scott Lang. For two volumes we’ve seen Scott Lang try and be and do better with his life while plowing into obstacles. If this was an Olympic race, Scott is doing the 400 meter high hurdles and nailing each hurdle while everyone blows by him, but the hook is that Scott is still smiling and just running his race no matter how many times he falls. This is the beauty of the Ant-Man series. We’ve been seeing Scott Lang use his charm and cunning more than his super powers for the most part. We’ve seen him navigating through so much shit and pyrrhic victories that life has been throwing at him. Scott’s Lang greatest ability doesn’t lie within the Pym particles, it’s his willingness to fall on the sword to protect folks, especially his child Cassie. Which is exactly what has him back in prison and now on trial for breaking into Cross Industries.

We get a special guest appearance from Jen Walters representing Scott in his trial (this has to be before her involvement in C…