Loved the backstory of Pym but he is better off with a team.

A very different retelling of the origin of Ant-Man. DeFalco makes a common change to origin stories by injecting later enemies into the story. I've never seen the necessity in doing this.DeFalco injects Egghead into the original Ant-Man story (from "Tales to Astonish" #27) changing it from the simple story of a scientist's mistake into a story of a failed murder attempt. Along the way we meet Egghead (who originally appeared a couple issues into Ant-Man's super hero career) and Bill Foster (who...

Well....it wasn't baaaad...but it sure wasn't gooood. Was looking forward to an origin story about Hank Pym, who really is probably the least represented major Avenger. I mean he shows up randomly all the time, is always involved in storylines, yet it feels like he's always in the background...However, this story is pretty juvenile. The artwork is pretty but has a teenage feel to it, which I don't really care for, but that's just an opinion thing from me. It was nice to see Bill Foster show up,

More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/ Ant-Man: Season One is a glossy origins story, reintroducing certain characters in new roles and creating a different personna for the eponymous character. However, the story is shallow and the plot skews very childish.Hank Pym is a man on the edge. He lost his beloved wife and has become paranoid that his research is going to be stolen and used for the greed of others. Even his father doesn't believe him. When a new

My reaction to seeing that Marvel did one of these Season One stories for Ant-Man was pretty much the same reaction I had when I heard they were doing an Ant-Man movie. Really?But on reflection it does make a certain amount of sense. Hank Pym goes back to the early days of the Marvel comic universe, and he was a founding member of the Avengers so giving him a reboot with the rest of the gang helps create consistency. However, his history of wife slapping and mental health issues also make him pr...

This was lowkey cursed for how much I had to look at giant bugs.💀 This is Hank Pym's Ant-Man origin story, not Scott Lang so I was already a little sus. I'm not sure what it is about Hank Pym but he just gives me bad vibes?? He doesn't even DO anything wrong but I'm just like pls stay away from me. It was interesting to see when he first becomes Ant-Man and honestly all the actual ant stuff was cute but also death to all these little fuckers.I couldn't find the exact edition on GR but my copy fr...

3.5 stars

Book #49 of 2019: While not perfect, Tom DeFalco’s retelling of Hank Pym’s beginnings as Ant-Man was a worthy story that explored the origins of one of Marvel’s most interesting characters. I’ve always found Hank Pym to be compelling — his mental health struggles strangely both lead to and prevent him from being a traditional superhero. It’s the Hank Pym part of the Ant-Man (later Giant Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket) character that makes him so complex, and DeFalco captures that here. This is proba...

I never realized before reading this graphic novel that Ant-Man had enough back story to be retold as a Season One hardcover. I've always thought of Hank Pym as a great supporting character and after reading this book, he's better off as a team player.

I enjoyed reading Pym's back story and I actually loved how paranoid he was as a person, it made his solutions all the more impressive. I did however find the art style to be a bit cartoony and i wasn't a huge fan of the style.

Yipes. Just.... yipes. Having known next to nothing about Ant Man before reading this, I kind of thought this might be a good use of Marvel's Season One concept. It would teach me the origins of a character I knew next to nothing about. And it did. Only the story was TERRIBLE. Seriously, this is Ant Man? This guy is a superhero? First of all the characters in here were so paper thin it was almost laughable. Egghead? Seriously? Giant Killer wasps? Seriously? The plot is way too pat (his dead fian...

Fun romp with more depth than expected but also a bit too much detail and talking-head-material without it being especially revelatory or new. Still, the story acknowledges a number of flaws introduced to the character after the fact but doesn't dominate the story with them or mute Hank's heroism by touching on said flaws. In fact, it celebrates his triumphing over those mental flaws by insisting it makes him more heroic for it.

Eh. This was ok. Definitely not the worst of the Season One bunch, but also nothing I'd recommend to casual comic readers.Be warned: this is Hank Pym, not Scott Lange. So, you know, brace yourself for the inevitable angst-fest. I've never read an Ant-Man origin story (that I remember), so for that reason alone this had automatic appeal for me. Also, I'd forgotten about Hank's first wife, Maria! I vaguely remember something about her from somewhere, but...Anyway, this is set before his time with

Story and characters with tons of potential are wasted on the book by sub-par dialogues and art.

I liked the art in this graphic novel, it was simple, but very clear and straight forward. Unfortunately the content bored me a little and at some points was predictable. Sometimes, as I've said about other 'Season One' graphic novels, it was just too cheesy. And if something's bad, it's bad to the core and the other way around. This complete black-white (evil-good) picture really annoys me and makes it a bit hard to read. But I guess that's what superhero novels are about.

A reimagining of Hank Pym’s journey to becoming the astonishing Ant-Man. Up to date, modern and stylish, this retelling discusses the themes that will later plague Pym and sets him up for further updated adventures. I love the way that Pym’s paranoia and mental illnesses are further developed. These are core attributes to understanding the man, one of the most under rated in the whole of Marveldom.

In a modernizing reboot of the Ant-Man character, Hank Pym travels with his wife Maria to Budapest for a science conference. They are supposed to meet at a restaurant but Hank runs late and gets there just as a terrorist bomb destroys the building. The story jumps forward to Hank with a therapist trying to deal with his issues. He's had a bunch of mental health problems throughout his life, making him a bit paranoid. His overbearing father pulls him out of the appointment and bullies him into wo...

I never thought I'd be a fan of Ant-Man, but after reading this relaunch title, I think I just might be a fan. Very well-written with solid artwork, I don't understand why this beautiful book is getting such low reviews - the character has been updated, modernized, and revamped with a new origin story and has quite a cynical edge to reflect the battlefield that is modern corporate America. There's really nothing to dislike about it and it has me actually looking forward to the upcoming feature f...

These "Season One" comics continue to be really entertaining and interesting. A new look at the origin stories. It definitely made a lot more sense than the original first appearance of "Henry Pym" in tales to astonish. I like how they kept some of the original aspects -- like testing the pym particles on a chair, or finding a match in the ant hill -- but made other things more interesting or more reasonable -- like Hank getting shrunk forcibly, not being foolish and testing it on himself. It's

This graphic novel is an alternate, expanded version of Ant-Man’s origin and early career. Here, Henry Pym is a scientist who recently lost his wife in a terrorist attack in Budapest. Maria was to present her new theories on communication with ants to a symposium on behalf of their employers at Egghead, Inc - a tech company. But Pym falls into depression and paranoia, and after spending months recovering, he’s forced back to work by his father. Pym continues work alongside a new assistant, Bill