GO FOR THE JUGGLER! Her name is Janet Van Dyne. She's got a file on the Death Throws – a worker's co-operative for themed super villains – that's taller than she is. His name is Victor Shade. Apparently, he's been a member for years. Together, they've got to find out who's picking the Death Throws off one by one…before it's his turn. PLUS, IN HIS VERY LAST GUEST APPEARANCE PRIOR TO HIS DEMISE, MOON KNIGHT!
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Who?
dunno
Looked into it, she was one of the behind the scenes folks in production. Started off at Marvel UK, moved to the US where she pioneered gimmicks like glow-in-the-dark covers, and eventually left Marvel for DC in 1999 where she's been working since. She must have been well liked in the office to get a retirement tribute like this after having already left the company for a quarter of a century.
>sudden William H Macy
curious to see where this plotline goes.
True, it sounds like a sort of rehab.
Blizzard, Ant-Man, Speed Demon, Hank, Bullet, ???, ????, Cobra II
Also Supercharger, Lodestone, Sunstroke and Oddball II
It's the original Blizzard's costume, but Shapanka's been dead since the 80s, so it's probably meant to be Donny Gill.
It's weird that Bullet is "reformed" here when he just went through that plot in Daredevil.
How did that end for him again? Wasn't he just let go by Doc Samson or something?
I don't know how that ended, but Cobra II was just recently in some X-book story where the writer screwed up and had him using the King Cobra name, which is his uncle.
Ok yeah he and Lance were flown back to New York and it seemed like he mostly wanted to go straight.
Speed Demon was also in this Daredevil plot so I'm wondering if Ewing was planning on mentioning it before he got cut short
Man, I find it weird how Doc Samson and Sasquatch switched bodies, and everyone involved is just going with it.
GREEEEEENNNNN
DOOOOOOOORRRRRRR
It's nice to see Ewing finally getting to use his favorite villain team.
Okay,this page sold me. I'm down for a 6 issue Moon Knight run by Ewing someday.
That's a fun way of getting him on board
Wasp crawling around inside people's gunshot wounds at the morgue is a vibe I hadn't considered
I'm not sure I buy her deductive leap tho
Did they really age up Hank in the name of synergy
We’ve already got an current Ant-Man, Goliath, Giant-Man, Wasp, and Yellowjacket. Might as well make him old like MCU.
Hank!
told y'all homies Ewing would set it up
Did Pym seriously think that these losers could possibly take on Ultron?
WHO IS that woman in the evening gown (costume?)?
she even gets a line!
hopefully that's Gill and not Shapanka
It looks like she's got grey skin and is made of some sort of fluid
Assuming that this isn't the X-Kid Mercury because why would she be here, the only character that comes to mind is Mortar from the Bastards of Evil
Damn it, Ultron! He just came back!
plot twist of plot twist.
Can't believe that I didn't see that coming until this issue
When Valkyrie had a peek at him last issue that's when it fell into the place for me
the whole frickin time, damn
Lmao, well frick. I missed the last issue, but I can imagine some people during that story time called this out as Ultron.
Has Jane Foster never faced Ultron?
As Thor, maybe. But the Valkyrie powers is relatively new, so very unlikely she encountered any incarnation of Ultron. Even if she did, I don't think she'll be able to put 2 and 2 together. For all she knows, she's probably looking at the android death aura or whatever the hell it's called.
Yes, in the Avengers: Rage of Ultron graphic novel where we first got got Pymtron.
I thought we knew it was probably Ultron but hoped that it Ultron 12 that Hank brought back on purpose
So the question is, was this always going to be the cliffhanger to issue 4, or did they only do this once Ewing was informed the book was cancelled with issue 5?
Likely the latter.
from ewing blog
>it does mean that this isn't the #4 that was originally envisioned, a one-off whodunnit in the world of themed crooks which would have led to the midway point in a ten-issue arc. Instead, you can expect climactic revelations right from the get-go as we accelerate for the finish line, wrapping things up over the next couple of issues in what's hopefully a nice, neat bow that also smashes a couple of meteors into the landscape of the Marvel Universe.
For the life of me, I don't understand how Ewing doesn't have a blank check on certain projects. Unlike Venom and X-Men, this is obviously a pet project. Give him his 10 issues.
Yes, you'd think some of his successes would give him this... but Ewing constantly makes low-selling titles. He can't stop it. He's done so since he started writing for Marvel
I don't like to shit on other people's tastes, but most people don't care about Defenders, Ultimates, cosmic thinker stories, where those low selling series come from. Yet still, he had success in Hulk, Venom is selling well, Thor is doing well (I think), and X-Men: Red. You're not making this book to appease the majority. I don't give a horse's ass about Jan normally, but it did get me interested in her. Keep your writers happy and swallow the bill and move on.
I congratulate him for going for what the mainstream would consider c or d list characters.
Look at guys like Bendis or Jason Aaron who go to DC, and have to be given a Superman or Batman to stay satisfied. While fans would prefer they go to lower characters to write, at least at first.
Ewing is the opposite. He loves raising up the profiles up of those C and D list characters that high profile writers ignore. I respect that. Even if I don’t like some of his storylines
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>I don't understand how Ewing doesn't have a blank check on certain projects.
Same, he should have been able to ride off of the good will from Hulk for years. We've seen other writers get free passes for less.
I guess Marvel has just gone back to throwing the man under the bus like it was 2016 again.
He sucks and his books don't sell.
Surely he’s no actually dead again already
for moon knight team up issue he didn't really do much
A great issue, but you can tell this could have happened now, or 15 issues into the series. It's so sad this failed to grab readers
https://al-ewing-writes-comics.ghost.io/271223/
yeah its ending next month
so it was invision as 10 issues but sold so poorly to be cut to five which is a shame
Maybe if he had made a good book it would have sold better
Ehh, I think the book is fine. It's just that it's a book focusing on Janet, so it was always doomed to fail regardless of the writing quality.
>Carol's book has been ranking just a bad and probably will still make it to 12
Editorial is such bullshit
Do we even have actual sales of marvel books anymore?
Its gonna end with them fused together again anyway
frick you
Its in timeless pymtron is gonna lead a zombie army
i seen it
frick that
they're separated and he's dead at the time of writing this post
If i am to guess, this Pymtron is the future pym, OG Pym will be cloned back to life because Jen and O'Grady wont quit on him this time
Yes, but the Pymtron in that looked young. So, he could actually still be in Whirlwind's body and not Hank.
can somebody clarify the chronology of this "Hank" since his death in Wasp's eyes? can't figure how it fits with the Pymtron that Slott/Shellhead put in carbonite in some prison for storage?
You need to read the latest Ant-man limited series. It follows from Pymtron being captured, explains how he got free and that continues here
Pymtron escaped from that vibranium casket with Black Ant's help during the last Ant-Man series. The breakout was botched (or something) and he was sent centuries into the future. At the end of that arc/battle/whatever, Scott Lang coax Pymtron and this is where Hank freed himself from Ultron as shown in the flashback in this issue.
>Pym and Ultron merged in Rage of Ultron
>Pymtron came back to Earth in Duggan's Uncanny Avengers, after destroying millions of alien lives, and Janet claimed Hank was dead, so they tried throwing him into the Sun
>Pymtron survived that, came back to Earth in time for Secret Empire where he managed to grab a Cosmic Cube Shard which he used as leverage to try to force the Avengers into having a family dinner with him
>Pymtron next appeared in Infinity Countdown where he started collecting Infinity Stones, part of Pym's soul got sucked into the World within the Soul Stone and got eaten, Pymtron destroyed a few worlds in the process
>Pymtron returned again during Slott's Iron Man and tried to Fuse Vision with Iron Man and Wasp with Jocasta to be similar to him. The Avengers beat him and stuck him in a Vibranium casket sealed with Asgardian runes to try to contain him because nothing else they tried had worked
>in the third issue of Ewing's Ant-Man mini the Avengers trusted Scott Lang to try to send the casket to the Microverse, but Pymtron convinced the LMD duplicate of Eric O'Grady to try to free him, and the fight ended in O'Grady blasting the casket with a time accelerator ray to try to degrade the metal.
>the resulting fusion of Pymtron, Vibranium, Asgardian magic, and temporal energy aged him and also send him 400 years into the future where he stole the Odin Power and became All-Father Ultron
>All-Father Ultron's Reign and Fall was depicted in three Ultron Forever Annuals in 2015 (also written by Ewing), he was defeated by a group of Avengers from different eras
>in issue 4 of Ewing's Ant-Man mini, it's revealed that a future Ant-Man from the 26th century accidentally brought All-Father Ultron back, so he recruited Hank, Scott and Eric from different points in the past to help him.
>a small part of Hank was still part of All-Father Ultron after all that time, and used his small portion of Cosmic power to separate himself and go home
>tried to Fuse Vision with Iron Man
Sorry I meant Vision with Wonder Man
My bad
When did cape comics get so infinitely boring?
1995
That was a good twist. You can tell Ewing probably wanted to give her some more clues, but this is fine. I don't think this book should have run for much longer than what we're getting.
Eh, I would have liked to read a season's worth of episodes but I guess the audience just wasn't there for it.
Then again has the whole Fringe/X-Files freak of the week stuff gone out of style in television as well?