Age of Ultron book 10 A.I. Review

oh, Age of Ultron what a strange terrible journey you have been. this companion piece/epilogue was far an away the best issue, and may be the best solo Hank Pym book there's been since the 70's. in the book Hank wallows and has to decide who he ultimately will be. they tell the story of a fractured genius. a scientest who decided to fight crime, a superhero who hit his wife, a shrinking man who defeated a god, a man who fathered the worst enemy the Avengers ever faced. And i have to say Mark Waid (writer) tackles a part of his life I've never even thought of, his childhood. and he makes the internal conflict of Hank Pym a parental issue, with his overly-practical parents wanting their genius son to invent something that can make the world a easier place to live. but all the while his grandmother, a B-tier writer of science fiction books, tells him that he should focus on making the world a more beautiful and colorful. and that is one of the coolest ways to demonstrate the unclear writing that has plagued our beloved Ant-man/Giant man/Goliath/YellowJacket/Wasp (and yes, he has gone by all those names at one time or another, sometimes more than once). the practicality of comics has always been at odds with the more whimsical side, Hank Pym has been at the center of that most of his life. and as a reader and a fan of the character i love seeing that. With the Ant-man film coming down the pipeline, Marvel will be pushing Hank into the forefront. which this book does quite well, setting a new status quo for the character, taking himself out a costume and mask, giving him his own team of avengers made up of seemingly only robots (which just sounds awesome!) and make him a more likeable guy instead of the sad sack he's been since the 80's.