Ant-Man #1 Weaponises Marvel Unlimited Streaming Service to Tell Story

We already looked at how Marvel Comics is reaching back to 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man #8 for today’s Amazing Spider-Man #900, using a little-used character who has mostly been used a joker since, The Living Brain, as a major threat to Spider-Man and those around him. We mention – and link – to a Marvel Unlimited digital version of the comic book, because that’s the kind of thing you can do now. And today’s Ant-Man #1, set over 400 years in the future, and almost a hundred years after the Age Of Ultron gets even more meta with that kind of thing.

With the MRVL TM narrative experience, a way of reading events as digital comics in the far future.

I would dare spoil this character’s identity! You won’t get something like that going on at Bleeding Cool, no sir! But with a story set in the past, in a time when most stories were self-contained, often in half-issue chunks, it allows the creative team to get a little contextual about things.

Creating a league of Ant-Agonists as a time when such a thing would have seemed impossible.

And giving readers a way to catch up on such comic books published sixty years ago.

ANT-MAN #1 (OF 5)
MARVEL COMICS
APR220848
(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Tom Reilly
Flash back to the early days of Hank Pym’s career as the astonishing Ant-Man! It’s date night for Hank and his girlfriend Janet Van Dyne, but nobody told that to Ant-Man’s enemies! Watch as Hank’s ant-agonists band together to finally take down the scientific adventurer! But will anyone come to his rescue? And who is the mysterious stranger who stalks him? Join Al Ewing (IMMORTAL HULK) and Tom Reilly (THE THING) as they explore the history of every hero (past, present and future!) called Ant-Man! RATED T+In Shops: Jul 27, 2022 SRP: $3.99

We already looked at how Marvel Comics is reaching back to 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man #8 for today’s Amazing Spider-Man #900, using a little-used character who has mostly been used a joker since, The Living Brain, as a major threat to Spider-Man and those around him. We mention – and link – to a Marvel Unlimited digital version of the comic book, because that’s the kind of thing you can do now. And today’s Ant-Man #1, set over 400 years in the future, and almost a hundred years after the Age Of Ultron gets even more meta with that kind of thing.

With the MRVL TM narrative experience, a way of reading events as digital comics in the far future.

I would dare spoil this character’s identity! You won’t get something like that going on at Bleeding Cool, no sir! But with a story set in the past, in a time when most stories were self-contained, often in half-issue chunks, it allows the creative team to get a little contextual about things.

Creating a league of Ant-Agonists as a time when such a thing would have seemed impossible.

And giving readers a way to catch up on such comic books published sixty years ago.

ANT-MAN #1 (OF 5)
MARVEL COMICS
APR220848
(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Tom Reilly
Flash back to the early days of Hank Pym’s career as the astonishing Ant-Man! It’s date night for Hank and his girlfriend Janet Van Dyne, but nobody told that to Ant-Man’s enemies! Watch as Hank’s ant-agonists band together to finally take down the scientific adventurer! But will anyone come to his rescue? And who is the mysterious stranger who stalks him? Join Al Ewing (IMMORTAL HULK) and Tom Reilly (THE THING) as they explore the history of every hero (past, present and future!) called Ant-Man! RATED T+In Shops: Jul 27, 2022 SRP: $3.99