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The Irredeemable Ant-Man, Vol. 1: Low-Life by Phil Hester, Robert Kirkman
3.0

This is "what if Ant-man was a giant asshole" the series. I mean it's hard to top a wife beater but this guy is something else.

So Hank Pym is of course working on his suit. He needs it be useful to help S.H.I.E.L.D. and we have two agents who we follow their storyline in the past while dealing with the current of one of them being Antman. After a good, decent guy, uses the armor to help people something happens and the asshole of the two, Eric, begins to use the suit. In the process he fucks over his friend and tells his friend's girlfriend he was cheating on her (he wasn't), he then tries to murder a good shield agent trying to stop him (or almost does) he then saves a woman on the streets and uses her for food money and then stays in her house without her permission and spies on her taking a shower. So yeah...this guy is a giant asshole for such a small little dude.

Good: I liked the zanny cartoony art. It fit well with the style the story was going for. Eric, despite being a dickhead, is interesting because he never changes into a "good" guy who redeems himself or anything like that. I also thought the style of going back and forth between mordern and past was good.

Bad: The side cast is really bad. Like a woman fucking her ex-boyfriends friend right after his death? What? And then the main enemy, is actually a good guy, but they make him out to be crazy when they didn't have to be.

Overall this is fun but dumb type of story. The Astonishing Ant-man series is better but for what this is, not too bad. A 2.5 out of 5 but I'll bump it to a 3.