Ultimate Wasps Big Secret *SPOILERS*

Spoilers Ahead. You have been warned.

Figure that should be enough, right? Anyway, just flipped through Ultimates #6, thought I'd make a couple small comments. So Wasp is a mutant in the Ultimate-verse. Can kinda understand the eww factor from Hank. I'd be a bit grossed out if I woke up to find eggs in the bed every now and then too. But I did think it was a really cool twist that Hank kinda reverse-engineered the growing powers from Wasp's blood. But he's a helluva bastard in this ish. Opinions?

I think I could live with eggs. Couldn't be grosser than menstration.

is THAT all?

Well, I found the whole eight pages dedicated to the abuse to be disturbing. He was more than a bastard, what he did was unforgivable. I guess I could have done without the panel by panel display of biting, kicking, hitting and attempted murder. Hell, this team makes the regular Marvel villains look almost normal.

I don't mind Jan's mutant angle. Although, the eggs were gross. I kept wondering...do they hatch? But, the team...well, they are so unlikable. I have yet to find a character I can sympathize with.

What about Captain America? Wakes up with his old fiancee married to his best friend, 60 years in the future. And he seems like a nice enough guy. Somewhat abrupt when 'on-duty', but you notice that he always treats everyone around him with respect and politeness.

You may not agree with Thor's politics, but you can't deny that he seems to honestly want to help people. Given his attitude in the latest issue, I think we can take that 'refusing to help until the president doubles foreign aid budget' from last issue as a kind of joke. Or possibly he threw it out on the off-chance they would give in, but he planned to help anyway.

Even Tony Stark. He's got possibly as little as six months to live, so he's decided to try to spend the time helping people and doing good deeds (and drinking himself to death). That's not heroic?

I kind of sympathize with Jan, too. You know, having to hide she's a mutant, an abusive husband.

You don't find you can sympathize with any of these charcters?

I dunno, Tony Stark's motives seem pretty likable....he's got only so much time left on this earth, so he wants to do something worthwhile with it. What's so unsympathetic about that? strikes me as pretty human...

Well, unless you tick him off...then it is a boot to the head.

Actually, I was referring to the fact that it was implied that Thor may be dillusional. He says he realized he was a incarnation of a Norse god at 12 and after his nervous breakdown everything became clear to him. His mission is to wake everyone up. Not to mention he has a cult following.

Well, as you mentioned, he is an alcoholic, may have a bit of a death wish, is flamboyant to the point of excess, and seems to enjoy the media attention more than the part of a hero (Is Jarvis suggesting Tony is gay or has a mother complex?)

Hank is abusive to the point of being a possible murderer. His actions were unforgiveable. Both of them were portrayed as being pretty savage in the scene. I suppose this is a regular occurance at the Pym household.

Jan is obviously messed up. Like Tony, she is a bit of a media hound and the abuse she takes is to the extreme. She really is in need of some major therapy.

Not really.

Amazingly enough, I realized I really enjoy the X-Statix series. Very many of the same themes and types of characters. However, where Millar's writing fails for me, Milligan's works.

I didn't read the issue, but that is just foolish. I hoped such 'scientific miracles' to have gone away from comics already. If it were possible to develop a growth power just from studying the blood of a mutant with shrinking powers, one would assume that pretty much any genetic characteristic could be changed in laboratory.

Besides, mutations, as any genetic traits, can't really be grafted into a non-carrier that way. Inherited, yes, but not tacked on like an overcoat. Of course, that's not how mutations work on either the MU or the Ultimate universe, but I find that so silly.

Now this is serious. There's been quite some discussion on whether the MU Hank Pym is/was an abusive spouse, but from what I read in this thread, the Ultimate Pym most definitely is (or, at best, just learned not to be).

Best wishes, Luis Dantas.

I gathered from their fight, that it was sort of a fetish thing with them and this time it just went too far. Each issue is getting me closer and closer to saving that 2.25 for something else.

Completely incorrect. Mutations result in different DNA, yes, but the DNA produces RNA which is sent to the mitocondria in the cell to produce protiens which, in the case of hormones for example, produce the changes that we associate with the mutations. Isolate the mutation, decode the DNA strand and you've got the formula for a hormone which can then be produced in the laboratory (say through cloned cows) and the hormone could then be tested on subjects to see if it alone is capable of producing the same effects odf the original mutation (or it if is due to the interaction of different hormones produced by differebnt 'genes'.

You really need to go back go to Biology 101.

Sorry but you deserved that. 'Silly' indeed. As if the whole concept of acquiring superpowers through either natural or artificial means could ever be regarded as plausible.