The Last Days of Ant-Man #1 Review

Writer: Nick Spencer / Artist: Ramon Rosanas / Marvel Comics Ant-Man is the most underrated series at Marvel — nay, fuck that — in the comic book game today. There, I said it. *covers ears* La-la-la-la-la-la-la I don’t care, I don’t care, I DON’T FUCKING CARE! Nick Spencer and Ramon Rosanas took Scott Lang and turned him into the most chill B-list hero in the game. This team together has done what Matt Fraction and David Aja did with Hawkeye (turning both Clint and Kate into animals through character development and that back-to-back on the cover of Lethal Weapon-level action). As Secret Wars takes place we’ve seen how many heroes spent their last days. Spencer has truly crafted a masterpiece here with Scott taking a job from his (only) investor Morgan Morganstern that requires his mad cat-burglar skills.

It’s interesting how Spencer has Morganstern flip between being bluntly cold as well as somehow expressing her faith in Scott. We’ve been wondering what her deal was since Scott saved her bank from the Nazi Robot that turned things to gold (that was inadvertently his own fault for unknowingly providing a way for it to break free from where it was being stored in the bank). It was a reveal that I would never have seen coming. We finally get her backstory and her grand scheme for things. It’s truly… touching. I don’t know what else to say. I was truly shocked by this, and when Scott recognizes what’s going on it’s a huge sign of him being someone who appreciates history a…