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roguederek

Stressing The Details

Aug 09, 2011 19:34

► I'm not looking forward to house sitting on the weekend. My nerves seem to be getting worse each day, and I'm struggling with a depressive spell too. Every time I have to house sit I dread going in the days leading up to it, but this time it seems a bit worse. Maybe it's partially because it'll be my first time at the house since before Bruce ( Read more... )

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anonymous August 12 2011, 01:12:19 UTC

MalcolmD says: I'm interested in your choice of Hank Pym as your 3rd place Marvel favorite. Most Marvel writers and fans like to make a lot of his record of spousal abuse (and one or two other screw-ups) to the point where that's all that they see in the character. I'm wondering how you would describe his personality, considering that you like him so much--who is he to you? Do the character flaws and errors that everyone else fixates on even factor into your perception of him?

Personally, I originally became aware of him through his role in West Coast Avengers, at which time he's contrite to the point of suicide and must rebuild himself despite having lost a lot of his power--in other words, a compelling hero.

Considering that you like him, you should check out his current role in the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon. In it, Pym is the most pacifist of all of the Avengers, and his constant conflict is between his desire to improve the world through SCIENCE! and the pressure by those around him to do so by punching super-

roguederek August 12 2011, 08:31:17 UTC

The slap heard 'round the world ( ... )

anonymous August 12 2011, 10:59:02 UTC

MalcolmD says: Ah, another person who remembers Time Bandits! How it boggled my young mind ...

Thanks for a full explanation of your perspective on Hank Pym. I'm at a disadvantage because I haven't directly read any of the issues in which he acted crazy and/or abusive, so I have to rely on others for that vintage information. However, I wouldn't solely blame Mark Millar for tainting Pym in recent years: before Brian Michael Bendis took over writing The Avengers, I recall Bendis saying in an interview that, although Pym only struck Wasp a few times, if you read the run in one sitting, it seems as though he hits her every ten minutes. That's an odd statement, since the rest of the internet seems to agree with you that there was only the one incident; that it occurred during an altered mental state; that Spider-Man, Reed Richards, and Batman have all hit their partners; and that even the writer who thinks that Hank Pym is a chronic and total failure clarifies that the nature of the blow was actually a case of artist error ( ... )

roguederek August 12 2011, 11:19:07 UTC

I really should watch Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but I don't know when and on what station it airs here in Canada. But then I should just look up the episodes online ( ... )