Stinger (Marvel Legends Series)

Capping off Ant-Man Family Week is one of my favourite characters actually.

Back in 1998 Marvel started publishing adventures of an alternate future world where Peter Parker and Mary Jane's teenage daughter May began adventuring as Spider-Girl. This was one of the first comics I seriously collected and soon they spun off titles featuring the Fantastic Five, J2 (Son of Juggernaut), and A-Next (the Next Generation of Avengers). Cassie Lang joined this new team of Avengers as the sensational Stinger. I voraciously collected all the MC2 titles and Stinger was a great character. She had a connection to the Fantastic Five from her father's stint with Marvel's first family in the early '90s and wore that striking lavender costume with confidence. In the mainstream comics at that time Cassie was still portrayed as a younger adolescent, not yet even a teen so this was a fun glimpse of what was to come.

Eventually she aged in the main timeline and joined the Young Avengers as "Stature" then some bad stuff happened but she eventually got better and in the pages of the more recent Ant-Man series (I'm sounding like a broken record but they're damn good comics) she uses a new app called "Hench" to regain her powers despite its shady reputation and we finally get the debut of Stinger in the "present."

Unfortunately this figure doesn't "stand up" to my high expectations. For whatever reason I had a really hard time getting Cassie to stand without falling over. Marvel Legends still hasn't quite figured out female bodies yet I guess? Okoye and Nakia didn't have this problem. Oh well I'm still pumped to have a new Stinger figure (the last one came out in 1999 and is boxed up at my dad's place).

Unfortunately there's something up with her hips and she's very hard to balance.

Stinger's stinger.

Retro simplicity.

Her wings are nice but hard to photograph.

A couple stray flecks of paint.

Up up and away.

Now the wings are easier to see.

I just love the colour of her suit.

"Hey dad."

"Going classic, eh Dad?"

"Woop woop!"

"Females are strong as hell!"

"I got your back!"

"Wassup Yellowjacket?"

Stinger & Giant-Man!

"Go ahead, make my day..."

"...Punk!"

Ant-Man Family Assemble!

Action shot!

Aww...