You just got STUNG!: The Wasp Appreciation

[Michael Watkins]

Huh, I didn't know Roger Gocking (Jessica Drew's boyfriend, the current Porcupine) was a legacy character.

depends on how you define the term. the original didn't choose to pass the mantle along. Roger purchased it from Hobgoblin, irrc; along with a slew of other new versions of old villains. he didn't know the original Porcupine and vice versa. but he's a great character, either way.

[Digifiend]

Jim Hammond didn't choose to pass on the Human Torch mantle to Johnny Storm either, but that doesn't change the fact that Johnny was Marvel's first legacy hero (before the 1950s Captain America comics got retconned as not being Steve Rogers, anyway).

[Captain M]

I started playing Marvel Battle Lines. Janet actually appears in the story as one of the Avengers, that's really cool. She is not background.

I'm still sad that Contest of Champions and Strike Force have Hope.. We're never getting Nadia and Jan in those , are we?

[Digifiend]

Don't rule it out - Avengers Academy has Janet, Cassie (whose costumes give her both her Stature and Stinger forms), Hope AND Nadia! Introduced in that order. Future Fight as well I think. Hope being in a game doesn't prevent Nadia appearing, and it definitely shouldn't prevent Janet from being added.

[Captain M]

Don't rule it out - Avengers Academy has Janet, Cassie (whose costumes give her both her Stature and Stinger forms), Hope AND Nadia! Introduced in that order. Hope being in a game doesn't prevent Nadia appearing, and it definitely shouldn't prevent Janet from being added.

True but the resources and money needed to add a character to Strike Force and Contest of Champions is vastly greater than what's needed for Avengers Academy, that's why that game constantly keeps adding characters and has tons of it. Contest of Champions only add 2/3 characters a month and Strike force around that too, I don't know if they would choose to spend their resources on another Wasp instead of adding a brand new character which they have ton of them waiting in line. If that makes sense. Strike Force has yet to add any variant characters too, they don't have people like Miles and Gwen either.

So yeah adding Hope doesn't stop them from adding Nadia or Janet but they just don't have a reason to. As far people are concerned their games have Wasp.

Marvel Heroes worked around this the best. There were enhanced costumes for characters and you would essentially be able to play different characters who has the same mantle. But of course, that was a PC game.

Edit: I wish that game was around. Wasp was slated to become playable with the movie. She would have been playable right now. Damn.

[Captain M]

Turns out Jan's role is pretty big in Marvel Battle Lines. There are about 10-15 characters you can get as leaders which means you're basically them and they have voice lines too and stuff and Jan is one of them. I've yet to get her though.

[klynn]

Any sign of Jan in Iron Man #5?

[Digifiend]

No - Tony didn't even appear!

[Captain M]

Janet will appear in 2 books next week.

I repeat, Janet will appear in 2 books next week. This is not a drill. It's happening

[Captain M]

[Captain M]

Tomorrow is going to be amazing. Already seen a couple panels of Jan from Avengers thanks to digifiend and bleedingcool and I'm so happy!

[Captain M]

Janet was wonderful in today's TUW2

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Tales to Astonish #49 Nov 1963
"The Birth of Giant-Man!"
The story opens with a giant Henry Pym (in a new costume) smashing through his own home and frightening off one of his own neighbors.
We learn that he has developed a new type of formula that allows him to grow in size, and is now taking on the identity of Giant-Man.
The Wasp helps him free himself from the house and Giant-Man explains that he was testing his new size-changing capsules.

Giving her a demonstration, Pym grows to the height of 12 feet.

Meanwhile, Pym's frightened neighbor arrives at the police station to make a report about a giant man.
The police tell him that they're too busy looking for a "pixie" that is apparently erasing people.
Later, at a local park, a police team is searching for a being they're calling "The Eraser."
The Eraser is hiding in the woods until he's discovered by a hot dog vender.
Not wishing to have his presence alerted, he "erases" the hot dog vender.
Later the Eraser travels to the home of Dr. Ebbhart, explaining that he's been "erasing" atomic experts, and that his next target is Henry Pym.

Back at Pym's residence, Henry is explaining how the size-changing capsules work and fits himself
and the Wasp with belts that dispense different size-changing capsules for easy access.
Wasp takes a size-changing pill and shrinks down to wasp size and lands on Pym's finger.

Just then the Eraser arrives and erases Henry (and unintentionally the Wasp),
who finds himself in "Dimension Z." The Eraser follows him shortly.

The Eraser explains that their world is in a different universe that shares the same space with Earth
and that they have been monitoring the people of Earth for years. When they learned of mankind's
ability to create the atomic bomb they sought to claim the technology to do so and invented their "erasers."

Refusing to aid them, Henry Pym tries to escape but is ensnared in "clinging bands."
At this point the Wasp comes out of hiding inside Henry's coat and feeds him a shrinking capsule to escape the trap.
In their diminutive size, Pym and the Wasp escape the guards and their hunter hounds.
Donning his Giant-Man costume, the two heroes travel through the air ducts

and find the scientists and alert them of their presence and intentions to free everybody.

Taking a growth capsule, Giant-Man storms the city, easily defeating the guards and their weapons.
He captures one of Dimension Z's scientists and forces him to bring them to the lab where the erasers are kept.
There Giant-Man is trapped in a unbreakable glass cage by the Eraser, who tells him that he has the only eraser on the planet.
Too busy boasting over his victory, the Eraser doesn't notice that the Wasp has triggered the device to free Giant-Man.
Giant-Man easily defeats the Eraser and takes his devices.
Returning to the prisoners, Giant-Man uses the devices to send them all back to Earth's dimension.

Script by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby and Don Heck

[Captain M]

[Digifiend]

A twelve member team? But I bet you Wasp turns out to be Hope.