Read the article on the Charlton-some time partner, some time competiton, hero YellowJacket.
As "meta-humans" go, this guy wasn't the most powerful. Yet given his "power", least his code name made sense. Which is less than I can say for when Dr. Henry Pym assumed the name-for a short while. (Did he ever keep a code name for long?)
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-05-11 at 04:31:47 AM
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Do comic book characters all speak in code? If so, who are they concealing their meaning from? If not, why are superhero monickers called "code names"? As far as I know (admittedly, not far) use of the term "code name" in superhero stories started with Chris Claremont, who threw it into his stories to gloss over the fact that the X-Men's "secret identities" aren't very secret, and certainly are known to the villains if not their neighbors. (This isn't new -- Dr. Sivana knew very well Billy Batson could turn into Captain Marvel.) The -Men used superhero names because they were "code names". Oooh, how cloak-and-daggerish!
Well, you won't catch me doing it. That's one of several pieces of fanspeak that you won't find under my byline because it's too darned silly even for me..
So, to answer your question, no, I don't think Dr. Henry Pym ever kept a superhero monicker for long. I suspect he wasn't very dedicated to the superhero lifestyle.
By the way, "meta-human" is another one that I don't use. What's wrong with "super powered"? Scared to call attention to the fact that superhero stories are silly at their very roots? Well, attempting to call them something that sounds serious and pulp-scientific doesn't change that as much as comic book writers think.
Sorry. I don't mean to step on your toes. It's just that these things are fantasy, and attempting to cover them with a veneer of quasi-reality just calls attention to the fact.
Quack, Don
Well, you won't catch me doing it. That's one of several pieces of fanspeak that you won't find under my byline because it's too darned silly even for me..
So, to answer your question, no, I don't think Dr. Henry Pym ever kept a superhero monicker for long. I suspect he wasn't very dedicated to the superhero lifestyle.
By the way, "meta-human" is another one that I don't use. What's wrong with "super powered"? Scared to call attention to the fact that superhero stories are silly at their very roots? Well, attempting to call them something that sounds serious and pulp-scientific doesn't change that as much as comic book writers think.
Sorry. I don't mean to step on your toes. It's just that these things are fantasy, and attempting to cover them with a veneer of quasi-reality just calls attention to the fact.
Quack, Don
