The Many Faces of Dr. Henry Pym: Hank Pym Appreciation 2021

[K7P5V]

Ask and you shall receive

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From Mighty Avengers #15

Dude, that's awesome! Thanks!!

[ed2962]

Avengers Forever was a love-fest for Pym. I just love that the writer was told he could assemble a team of Avengers from across different time periods and he *didn't* pick classic Avengers like Iron Man or Thor, and use two of his seven slots on different versions of Hank Pym!

If I remember correctly, Busiek and Pacheo had some other Avengers pitch and that one got rejected, so "Avengers Forever" was their second idea. I'm really curious as to how "Avengers: Worlds In Chains" might have turned out.

[Doombot]

What are your favourite Pym moments?

[K7P5V]

What are your favourite Pym moments?

Here's My Top (3) Three Favorites:

1. The marriage of Wasp & Yellowjacket (Avengers #60)





2. Yellowjacket holds his own against Namor & The Invaders (Invaders Annual #1)





3. With everyone looking on with awe, the two Pyms start working together on a solution (Avengers Forever #4)

[Kurt Busiek]

If I remember correctly, Busiek and Pacheo had some other Avengers pitch and that one got rejected, so "Avengers Forever" was their second idea. I'm really curious as to how "Avengers: Worlds In Chains" might have turned out.

It didn't get rejected, but in conceptual terms MUTANT X had some clear similarities and was debuting two months earlier, so we decided we should do something else.

The EIC tried to talk us into doing it anyway, saying we could turn the similarity in the two projects into a plus, by having them both be lead-ups to something else, so they're related stories.

I didn't want our project to get turned into a partial prologue to something no one had even conceived of yet; I wanted it to be a thing on its own. So we came up with AVENGERS FOREVER instead.

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[Nomads1]

That’s how you tell a freakin’ story.

It sure is. Sadly, a lost art nowadays.

Ask and you shall receive

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From Mighty Avengers #15

That's Bendis. It doesn't count!

If I remember correctly, Busiek and Pacheo had some other Avengers pitch and that one got rejected, so "Avengers Forever" was their second idea. I'm really curious as to how "Avengers: Worlds In Chains" might have turned out.

So was I. Still am, if Busiek and Pacheco ever decide to get around to it.

It didn't get rejected, but in conceptual terms MUTANT X had some clear similarities and was debuting two months earlier, so we decided we should do something else.

The EIC tried to talk us into doing it anyway, saying we could turn the similarity in the two projects into a plus, by having them both be lead-ups to something else, so they're related stories.

I didn't want our project to get turned into a partial prologue to something no one had even conceived of yet; I wanted it to be a thing on its own. So we came up with AVENGERS FOREVER instead.

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And it's still one of the best stories I've ever read. Among my top 3 Avengers stories. Great Character work, amazing art, and a really cool wild ride. Kudos.

Peace

[Riv86672]

What are your favourite Pym moments?

[CosmiComic]

Anyone taking down Reed's ego is a plus to me.

[stingray]

Anyone taking down Reed's ego is a plus to me.

This is the kind of thing that's always really bothered me. Even when Hank has turned a corner and is doing something good, other characters that should treat him with friendship and respect hate on him for no reason.

[Riv86672]

Anyone taking down Reed's ego is a plus to me.

^^^i went through a long period of really disliking Reed’s characterization, and that exchange was an example of why.

This is the kind of thing that's always really bothered me. Even when Hank has turned a corner and is doing something good, other characters that should treat him with friendship and respect hate on him for no reason.

^^^its bothered me, too.
It’s like writers feel the need to keep making him pay for hitting Jan, like writing him respectfully somehow reflects badly on something.

I’m prob. way off on that but it’s just how it seems to me at times.

[Riv86672]

One of my favorite scenes…:




I love(d) red jumpsuit/action scientist Hank.

[CosmiComic]

This is the kind of thing that's always really bothered me. Even when Hank has turned a corner and is doing something good, other characters that should treat him with friendship and respect hate on him for no reason.

As if Reed has room to talk. Hank is a jerk at times but if someone gets to call him out, it can't be a bigger jerk.

^^^i went through a long period of really disliking Reed’s characterization, and that exchange was an example of why.

I'm still in that period haha

^^^^its bothered me, too.
It’s like writers feel the need to keep making him pay for hitting Jan, like writing him respectfully somehow reflects badly on something.

I’m prob. way off on that but it’s just how it seems to me at times.

I do get why they want him to pay for Jan, although the comics themselves barely use her and don't always treat her and other heroines in general well so it's a little two faced.

[CosmiComic]

One of my favorite scenes…:




I love(d) red jumpsuit/action scientist Hank.

I don't recognize this one. Since when did they fight King Ghidorah?

[Nomads1]

I don't recognize this one. Since when did they fight King Ghidorah?

That's from West Coast Avengers, the Acts of Vengeance cross-over. Paul Ryan inks really complimented Byrne's pencils.

Peace

[CosmiComic]

That's from West Coast Avengers, the Acts of Vengeance cross-over. Paul Ryan inks really complimented Byrne's pencils.

Peace

I haven't really read enough WCA, it seems. Who's the dragon?