The book feels like a step down for a couple reasons. For starters, this book markets itself as the beginning of the story by calling itself Volume 1, and it REALLY isn't (that would be Ant-Man: Second-Chance Man and I really recommend it). Second of all this volume is very unfocused. It's a bunch of one-and-done stories of varying quality that exist either to address previous continuity (see Ms. Thing) or cater to one of the many events that were going on at Marvel at the time (see the "death" of Hank Pym and the Last Days before Secret Wars). There's lots of set-up for future reckonings towards the end and the overarching background plot with the Hench app (a hilarious concept) helps tie everything together a bit, but this volume still feels very disjointed. If you didn't like the previous volume this isn't going to change your mind.

I loved Second-Chance Man, but the next volume is really gonna determine whether I can recommend this series as a whole because it won't have the excuse of mandated events it needs to address.