Ant-Man #4 is currently available to purchase directly from Marvel Comics as it was released on April 8th. This new series, which started not long ago, focuses on Scott Lang as he retakes the mantle of the titular Ant-Man.
Most of the heroes are preoccupied in New York City, Los Angeles, and other major US cities.
Lang has relocated to Miami, where he can be closer to his daughter, Cassie, famously known as Stature. He’s trying to make a new life for himself as he employed Griz, a former-villain, with Ant-Man Securities.
What did I think of the story?
Ant-Man’s antagonist is the Cross Family, which runs and operates Cross Technologies. Cassie ends up being kidnapped by Cross Technologies’ hired muscle, where her heart is planning to be used to resurrect Darren Cross.
Things aren’t great for Ant-Man because he is unable to reach the Avengers or the Fantastic Four to help. He even tried to reach Tony Stark aka Iron-Man, but thinks the billionaire blacklisted him. I think Iron-Man has other things in his mind after becoming the “Superior Iron-Man.”
Ant-Man Securities is slowly growing larger, but Ant-Man’s employees are former villains.
Griz is the first employee and Machinesmith is the new addition. I found it funny that Machinesmith is serving out his parole, but has been reduced to doing odd jobs like attending a birthday party as a villain.
This kind of reminded me of the recently released Spider-Woman #6, where Spider-Woman meets low-level villains when investigating a new case. It was priceless to see Machinesmith literally get the s—t kicked out of him by the children.
It was saddening, but funny, that Machinesmith only got paid $50 because he failed to say “Hail Hydra!”
Ant-Man finds Machinesmith with Griz’s help, but receives an ultimatum for the help: give Machinesmith a job in the security firm. I found it intriguing that Machinesmith assumed that Ant-Man was running a scam, which is not the case.
This is interesting, but risky, that Ant-Man’s company is growing with the addition of former villains.
Ant-Man finds where Cassie is being held captive at and has to go through a bunch of armed men, which he doesn’t kill any of them. I laughed when Ant-Man mused about looking for those people in the future through LinkedIN.
That implies Ant-Man wants to hire those people in the future.
But it is too late as Ant-Man arrives to see Darren Cross revived and standing. Things have gone from bad to s—tty in Ant-Man’s case.
I enjoyed the humor and action in Ant-Man #4 and I give it a grade of A+. In a Marvel Comics way, Ant-Man #4 felt very down to earth.
