Look Out for the Little Guy!

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This book was like getting a personal letter from a beloved, dear friend. Except, in this case, the dear friend is a world renowned superhero who literally has no idea that I exist.

Though Ant-Man, The Wasp, and the rest of their family were last seen in Quantumania, with more Avengers movies on the horizon, it's only going to be a matter of time before we see them again. The next Marvel project to hit screens will be Loki Season 2, which premieres on Disney+ on October 6. A surprising aspect of this work is how progressive Scott Lang is allowed to appear. We get glimpses into how Lang sees the world in a way that is ultimately pretty sanitized but still very un-Disney like. He expresses his thoughts on things like incarceration, gender inequality, and corporate greed. It helps make Lang feel more like a full person and is the kind of content you expect to see in a memoir. For example, he comments on how female ants, like human women, do a lot of thankless work. It never gets heavy though, like the Ant-Man films, and there are plenty of jokes to keep the book moving. Clint answered, “You, Scott. You’re the guy who got scooped up in all this pretty recently. You’ve still got one foot in their world. And you’re a guy everyone likes . . . and trusts.” PDF / EPUB File Name: Look_Out_for_the_Little_Guy_-_Scott_Lang.pdf, Look_Out_for_the_Little_Guy_-_Scott_Lang.epub The only thing is, it wasn’t actually 100 percent set­tled for me—on the inside. From the confidence peak of having two amazing Super Heroes place their trust in you, there was a frighteningly steep plummet into self-doubt. Even with their sensible reasons, the whole affair just stirred up a question that’s been burning inside me most of my adult life:And if you want to really get to know who Scott Lang is, reading this book is where I’d recommend you start. Bruce responded that yes, of course, billions had experienced these jarring and mind-bending events, but they didn’t know the full story behind them. And ultimately, that’s what people need the most to get through and get past traumatic events: a narrative that helps it all make sense. If you haven’t, Hank Pym was the inventor of the Pym Particle, an incredible scientific breakthrough. Pym Particles have the power to cause molecular reduction or expansion at great scales in either direction. In other words, they can make anything super-small or super-big. Hank and his wife, Janet Van Dyne, put this to direct use on themselves, performing countless heroic deeds as the original Ant-Man and The Wasp. And, on the other side, I also drove an extremely expensive sports car into an extremely expensive pool, and myself into San Quentin Federal Penitentiary for three years. If you can't wait a few more weeks to get your hands on Scott's opus, read an excerpt now: INTRODUCTION from Look Out for the Little Guy by Scott Lang

I’d like to start with the positives: I returned five mil­lion dollars to our customers and exposed VistaCorp’s nefarious dealings to the public. So in the time since, I’ve been trying to take things a bit easier. Nursing wounds. Reconnecting with those I’ve missed. Reflecting on what it all means. Along the way, you’ll hear about my story—Scott Lang’s story—from where I started to the (ant-) man I’ve become, and am still becoming. Because I’m so incredibly fascinating? No. Because my life—just like yours—loses half its value if we don’t find a way to share its lessons with others.Even worse, this was also around the time that my marriage to Maggie broke up. I don’t want to get into the specifics of why—that’s strictly Scott-Maggie stuff—but let’s just say “Husband suddenly going to the pen for three years” wasn’t exactly a marriage-saver. I mean, just between us, I’m proud to be an Avenger, but sometimes I also feel like a “latecomer.” Sure, I came through in the ultimate clutch, but in baseball terms, I’m not a starter—I’m a DH (designated hero). One of Scott’s ideas involves ways to make working from home easier. While working from home was, of course, a concept before the coronavirus pandemic, it has become somewhat inseparable from the ongoing cultural moment in which the various reasons for and against WFH are in daily headlines. This seemingly innocuous mention of working from home in the chapter that already has an internal logic that doesn’t work makes for a bizarre reading experience. I don’t think this chapter is implying Covid exists in the MCU, but it does make you ask the question in a chapter that has you asking a lot of questions without answers.

Look Out for the Little Guy is the in-movie memoir by Scott Lang, also known as Ant-Man, that he's written and shared with the world, as seen onscreen in the new Marvel Studios film Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. Hyperion Avenue is proud to bring this book to real life. Because that’s the job life has for you, at least right at this moment, and it’s the kind of job you don’t get to quit. And, on the other side, I also drove an extremely expensive sports car into an extremely expensive pool, and myself into San Quentin Federal Penitentiary for three years.”

And finally, because—if you take nothing else away from my words—what I want to share is that what makes all of us giants is how much we look out for the little guy. How we help out our fellow humans when they need it most. How our greatest super-power can simply be a listening ear, a concerned eye, or an outstretched hand. How we don the “hero’s uniform” by simply showing up and doing the unbelievably unlikely job that life has just handed us. Having the ability to change my size at will, I’ve seen that the world is full of “big guys” and “little guys.” And unsurprisingly, the former is always stepping on the latter. Sometimes this is by design, but sometimes, just because of their status and drive, the big folks don’t even see the everyday, hard-working folks just trying to get by.