tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post1896178306652823551..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: MARVEL TEAM-UP #59Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-2750859711913156002016-02-29T10:46:16.156-08:002016-02-29T10:46:16.156-08:00Yeah, I definitely like the Wasp as a mature and l...Yeah, I definitely like the Wasp as a mature and level-headed leader. I just can't figure out why I read her as so much older than she is. I think it just has to be the hair.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-12090238716695449462016-02-29T05:08:51.800-08:002016-02-29T05:08:51.800-08:00Janet turns 23 in Avengers #43, inheriting the for...<br>Janet turns 23 in <i>Avengers</i> #43, inheriting the fortune left by her deceased father, according to my notes for an Ant-Man article I wrote last year. I don’t see any other ages jumping out at me from said notes but it’s pretty clear in her early appearances that she’s much younger than Hank and indeed simply young, period. Hank calls her “little more than a child” and “only a child” in her debut. I refer in the article to her being a teenager when they met, which I must have gotten explicitly from the stories or at worst derived contextually from an on-page birthday. All that being said, though, Janet always seemed older to me as well, maybe just because of what she’d been through and how by this era she could be written as a confident, married female superhero who still had sex appeal rather than the orphaned ingenue debutante pining for her partner.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-29126455722035195632015-09-03T10:30:27.807-07:002015-09-03T10:30:27.807-07:00There was an issue of Peter David's SPECTACULA...There was an issue of Peter David's SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN where Spidey teamed up with Wasp and Paladin (with whom I think the Wasp had a little thing at some point or another?), and at one point Wasp is accosted in her civilian clothes, so she shrinks and is left to fight in her underwear. So I know what you mean about her having sex appeal. I just think she generally translates to the printed page as a woman in her forties rather than her twenties. I can't really explain why.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-55360974248598987322015-08-31T08:07:52.472-07:002015-08-31T08:07:52.472-07:00...Yellowjacket and the Wasp of the Avengers -- ar...<i>...Yellowjacket and the Wasp of the Avengers -- are preparing for a romantic evening in their penthouse apartment when Hank spots the wall-crawler falling to his doom.</i><br /><br />Seriously, I love comics. Just the image of a two people sitting down to a romantic dinner, only to have Spider-Man suddenly appear outside their window, falling to his death, prompting them to action. Great stuff. <br /><br />As for the Wasp, I too have always read her as probably being older than she is actually is meant to be (probably because my first experience with her was Stern's AVENGERS), but that never stopped me from finding her to be an attractive character. There's an issue of AVENGERS guest-starring Paladin just prior to "Under Siege", in which Wasp is vacationing somewhere tropical for which Teen Teebore had some fondness. :)Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com