Ant-Man #1

Writer: Nick Spencer / Artist:Ramon Rosanas / Publisher: Marvel Aight look, Marvel out here getting writers to turn C-List heroes into fucking interesting and compelling characters (Moon Knight is the perfect example). So when that Ant-Man issue #1 trailer dropped post the movie trailer, instead of saying, “Who in the (cyber) streets asking for this?”. As I normally would. I instead decided to just shut up and check this shit out. Yall.. I. AM. SO. FUCKING. GLAD. I. DID. This book is AYETHING!!! I love a comic book with depth, action, and ass whoopings, that’s a given. Above everything I really enjoy books that takes a hero that considers themself a second stringer and puts them through the fucking ringer with actual real world problems (bills, responsibilities, more bills, self doubt, Sallie Mae) on top of worrying about some villain running amok on their set. Nick Spencer delivers all of this knotted up with charm and humor in this latest installment of Ant-Man. Spencer gives us a quick run down on Scott Lang for thus unfamiliar and this guy is an underdog you immediately want to root for. Spencer has Scott 6 feet deep in the self deprecating humor through out the entire issue and it hooks you in from jump.

Spencer gives us a Scott Lang that is really just trying to get by and do better. We see him applying for a job at Stark International (my man wears his Ant-Man suit to the interview yo!) trying to become (inverted) Tony Stark’s new head of security. Tony has some harsh…