Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for October 08, 2011

Ant-man is Giant-man are the same guy. He’s also Yellowjacket, and Goliath he can’t keep it straight.

Maybe he’s referring Hank Pym/Giant Man vs. Scott Lang/Ant Man.

Oh yeah! He’s a super hero in MY book. Looked awesome in Last of the Mohicans.

“He was killed in a big crisis, but came back to life recently, thanks to a clever bit of time-travel.” Doesn’t that describe about everyone in the DC and Marvel universes by now?

I think MAKING Hank Pym into a jerk was a terrible idea. He didn’t used to be. Sure, he was never an A-List hero, but Yellowjacket was pretty snazzy, and it never hurts to have a good bio-chemist in your corner when you need some convenient pseudoscience for plot purposes.

Hank Pym was the first Ant-Man and the first Giant-Man, but I think at one point he changed his name to Goliath while keeping Giant-Man’s powers. Then he gave the name (Goliath) and powers to Clint Barton (for a while). In Pym’s first incarnation as Yellowjacket he didn’t have shrinking powers, but he later incorporated them into that identity.

There was also a Black Goliath, who on the advice of the Thing changed his name to Giant-Man, the rationale being (besides the fact that nobody was using it at the time) that it was self-evident that he was Black, and that biblically Goliath was a bad guy.

What Ben Grimm FORGOT, however, is that “Giant-Man” is simply a clunky name…