Ant-Man is, at best, a mediocre character and a joke of a superhero and the Eric O’Grady version might be the worst. So it goes with The Irredeemable Ant-Man, Volume 1: Low-Life, wherein Eric steals the Ant-Man suit off the corpse of his best friend and uses his new powers to watch women shower, getting a female victim of a mugging he’s just saved to buy him dinner, and hit on his dead friend’s girlfriend.
I get it – the title is “Irredeemable” and “Low-Life”, so he’s meant to be a scumbag. But… why?! Why did anyone think it would be a good idea to make a comic where the main character is such an unlikeable shithead? It’s not funny, it’s not entertaining, it’s just gross.
The story is pitiful: some SHIELD dude is chasing Eric for the stolen suit – it’s that lame and uninspired. Meanwhile Eric’s doing all that sleazy crap I mentioned earlier. Robert Kirkman overwrites this wafer-thin nonsense so the pages are crammed with bad, useless writing and Phil Hester’s blocky art is as unappealing as ever. The Ant-Man suit is the worst design I’ve ever seen.
The Irredeemable Ant-Man is irredeemable garbage.
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