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neuhallidae (neuhallidae) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-03 23:50:00

Entry tags:

char: ant-man/wasp/hank pym, char: captain america/steve rogers, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: wasp/janet van dyne, title: marvel adventures, title: marvel adventures avengers

Giant Ants!
Or: "Different Universe, Same Love-Life Problem."

I wanted to post this for two reasons: 1) MA!Hank and Jan are adorable, and 2) giant ants.

Scans from Marvel Adventures: Avengers, #20.

So the Avengers are fighting giant space bugs, only Giant Girl's being a bit distracted by a phone call from her father, insisting she come to the lab. When the bugs have been handled, a limo shows up to get her, with Spidey calling shotgun.

(which had the hilarious "Who was that?" "Wrong number." exchange when Spidey gets a call from Aunt May after telling Giant Girl she can't go running home every time Daddy calls her.)

Anyway. It turns out the reason for the call is that apparently, Hank Pym (earlier introduced as working for Jan's dad) has gone missing. While she goes to check records, Spidey goes with Hank's assistant, Erik Josten, who isn't exactly in mourning for the missing scientist.

Or, rather, the not-really-missing-at-all. Josten, in the fashion of 616-verse David "Whirlwind" Cannon, has it bad for Jan, and had made it look like Hank (who was actually doing tiny-sized research in the lab's yards) had vanished in order to get closer to her.

And enough of recapping, let's get to the ginormous city-destroying giant fights.

Poor Jan. It seems she can't go one universe without at least one man in her life causing a bruise or two. [/cheapshot] At least no one else ever did it with a freaking Quinjet.

Giant ants as an army tactic for rescuing your not-yet-girlfriend. Awesome, y/y?

Note: These came out weirdly muted. They're supposed to be a lot brighter, but I was kinda worried about screwing too much with the saturation.

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	(Anonymous) 2009-06-03 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	"Get him, boys"? But... aren't most ants female? (I know, I know, leave the science out of it.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-06-05 11:24 am UTC (link)
	The MA: Super-Heroes comics are even worse about that. There, the two worker ants who live in Hank's apartment as "official colony liasons" are not only guys, they act like frat boys. Hilarious as hell, but totally inaccurate. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dimesfornickels.wordpress.com 2009-06-03 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	It's a pity this doesn't sell better to the Wednesday crowd. I've yet to see a crappy issue. Or at least motivate the Wednesday crowd to buy it for the children in their lives. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tavella 2009-06-04 09:49 am UTC (link)
	It is. Though apparently the book versions and alternate routes of sales do well enough that they expanded it to the Super-Heroes title. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liarashadowsong 2009-06-03 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	^_______^ This is made of awesome. Janet and Hank are being so adorable here. And the panel of the rest of the team's reactions immediately after Hank sicced his giant ants on Erik was priceless. This series is officially my Marvel canon, I cannot say it enough times. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-06-04 06:54 am UTC (link)
	yeah, MA is pretty awesome do you know if its doing well or not? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

liarashadowsong
2009-06-04 10:02 am UTC (link)

I have no idea. I have to special order in the volumes I want to the local bookstores, but then again I have to do the same with the D.Gray-Man manga half the time and the Saint Seiya manga since volume nine or ten and it's stilll translating... The Borders on my college campus keeps a small variety of MA books, mostly the Spiderman ones, actually, but that in itself is some indicator of it doing okay I think. (Well, regardless, I'm doing my part to support MA by buying the Avengers books as I have the money to spare and the time to wait for a special order.)

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	endis_ni 2009-06-04 10:22 am UTC (link)
	I hope it is, because I'm looking wistfully at it on the shelf, and then carefully not buying it. Then going home and apologising to my copies of Blue Beetle and Captain Britain and MI13. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hyperactivator 2009-06-04 01:05 pm UTC (link)
	It does extreamly well with subscriptions. MA:Spider-Man is the top selling subscription marvel offers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-06-04 12:01 am UTC (link)
	Giant Girl is indeed awesome. (Reply to this)

bluefall
2009-06-04 01:10 am UTC (link)

Note: These came out weirdly muted.

You probably have a color profile problem. The Windows Help page on the topic is actually a pretty decent explanation of the issue. Most reasonably complex image editing programs will let you fix that pretty easily and have your major web profiles built in already, just do a quick google for a tutorial on profile management.

Also, ants are deeply creepy and Hank is extremely fun (as is Scott Lang), and this is a contradiction I have never been able to comfortably reconcile.

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	neuhallidae 2009-06-04 11:21 am UTC (link)
	Glee, thank you! Hopefully, the next post won't look so odd. (Reply to this) (Parent)

seawolf10
2009-06-05 03:31 am UTC (link)

Also, ants are deeply creepy.

Really? I just find them incredibly aggravating. Then again, I'm down South and you're up North. I don't think you have fire ants...and I know you don't have Florida harvester ants.

Fire ants hurt like hell, but unless you're unlucky enough to pick up a ton of stings at once, the pain goes away within a few minutes. Florida harvester ants make you want to CLAW YOUR GODDAMN SKIN OFF for at least two hours.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before bullet ants enter our ecosystem somehow and we get stuck with one of the few species more painful than the harvester ant...

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	arilou_skiff 2009-06-04 03:21 am UTC (link)
	MA:A Hank is almost as awesome as MA:SH Hank. Who is just adorable. (Reply to this)

	yaseen101 2009-06-04 04:00 am UTC (link)
	MA Janet is awesome. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-04 06:10 am UTC (link)
	Here's hoping they become a real couple and there won't be any hitting snice this universe is more happy. Man I wish they would bring MJ and Sharon Carter to this. (Reply to this)

	angelophile 2009-06-04 08:44 am UTC (link)
	I'm not normally into the MA stuff - it tends to be a bit twee and knowing for my liking, and there's still elements of that here, but... I do love this. (Reply to this)

	joysweeper 2009-06-04 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	I continue to love this version of Janet. Pity about the page limit; there was also the exchange where her father is telling her not to fall in love with the hired help. ...What is Iron Man supposed to do with a tiny evil scientist in a jar? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-06-04 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	I also wanted to put in the bit with Spidey getting shrunk down, but, eh, wha'chu gonna do? ::shrug:: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	raattgift 2009-06-04 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, men with actual packages rather than shaded out, obscured or simply totally flat crotches. Also, is that Josten's glans in the AIEEEEEE shot? (Follow leftmost ant's leg up and to the right towards the gold oval decoration...) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-06-04 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	I find it ironic that the kiddy comic tends to pay more attention to anatomy (except the faces, sometimes those are really bad) than the regular comics. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	currer 2009-06-04 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	Hulk smash more buggies? No, friend, this time we let the bugs win. Bemused Hulk is full of win. (Reply to this)

	lieut_kettch 2009-06-04 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Awww... MA Jan and Hank! So how long 'til he slaps her around? Also, MA! Erik Josten! I wonder if we'll see this universe's version of the T-bolts. (Reply to this)

	politicalzombie 2009-11-15 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	Why does Iron Man looks so pissy at the end? (Reply to this)