About this episode

The episode discusses Joe Casey's follow-up comic series and explores Hank Pym's character development and mental breakdown.

We're back with Joe Casey's follow up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes, this time looking at the issues where Hank Pym had his first mental breakdown and became Yellowjacket! Joe Casey does his level best to make that plotline make sense, but in the meantime, he adds in some other plots, including one involving the Super-Adaptoid!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason, John

Topics covered

• comic books
• mental health
• superheroes
• plot analysis
• character development

Keywords

• Avengers
• Hank Pym
• Yellowjacket
• Joe Casey
• Super-Adaptoid
• comic analysis
• mental breakdown

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Yellowjacket, Super-Adaptoid

Books & works: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II, Earth's Mightiest Heroes

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