Astonishing Ant-Man #8 Review

Writer: Nick Spencer / Artist: Brent Schoonover / Marvel Comics Man, if y’all don’t let Nick Spencer fucking live. Y’all better be out here supporting the paragraph god, man. Lemme explain. We’ve had Spencer giving Scott Lang mad pathos and life in about (technically) two volumes of Ant-Man now. We’ve seen him be humorous with Scott Lang and show how his life is crumbling apart through the choices he makes. This issue leads us closer to the decision that lands Scott back in prison. Scott Lang has assembled a bunch of villains via the hench app for a job. This assembly isn’t going to go the route of the Thunderbolts — think more The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, which was also written by Nick Spencer. That was such an underrated book and now we got Spencer getting the crew back together (in theory) with a whole new gang of villains. This is Superior Foes: Miami edition now.

How you pay a homage to your damn self though? How you pay homage to your own skill, sun?! That’s when you know you nice. Ant-Man takes a break for the most of this issue and we catch up on all the villains that gave him issues like The Voice, Whirlwind, Hijacker, and The Magician. Everyone comes from a different tier of crime but they’re all very D list, J list, Z list criminals. This gives Spencer the freedom to give these guys personality, which he does with ease. These villains that would usually appear in one panel and get their ass whooped are given life and character development. You’d think it be b…