A Status Update

 Deviating from my usual posts, I felt the need to give everyone who reads this blog an update. I'm currently swamped in my non-comic life. Not only do I have a family to look after, I work two jobs -one of which involves frontline health work- and have recently and ridiculously returned to part-time tertiary education to improve my skills. There's a few other things in play at present that I'm not prepared to discuss openly but the gist of it is I'm going to be even more sporadic and infrequent with the MC2 posts in the near future. Hopefully this doesn't come as too much of a disappointment to all of my 3 regular readers. Thanks for your support!

 Anyway, I have to get back to hitting the books. With Great Power Must Also Come Great Responsibility and all that.

Until I find a form of time-travel or  develop a cloning technology that enables me to be in multiple places at once, I remain

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The Lang Family Tree *Updated*

While digging for another family to highlight, I hit upon the Lang Family. Initially, this seemed like a bigger challenge due to the fairly extensive list of relatives I discovered for Scott Lang. As it turned out, the list of relatives pre-MC2 is really quite small.

Obviously, the reason for this entry in the MC2 Family Tree is one Cassandra 'Cassie' Lang aka Stinger of the Avengers. Cassie is the daughter of Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man, who I'm sure most are now at least somewhat aware of thanks to the titular movie. Scott made his first appearance in Avengers (vol. 1) #181 and stole the Ant-Man identity in Marvel Premiere #47. Cassie also makes her first appearance in the latter title, along with her Aunt Ruth and (I'm assuming they're married) Uncle Carl.



There's really only a few tidbits to address. Despite my initial belief that Cassie's mother ( Peggy Rae) was a fairly long-established character, I discovered that she makes her first appearance well after the MC2 branching point in Avengers (vol. 3) #62.


*As a result, Peggy wasn't initially identified by name in the Family Tree above. However, more recently I discovered that Peggy is named in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (vol. 1) #1 published back in 1983. As a result, I've corrected the Family Tree above.*

With the increase in audience recognition for the Scott Lang iteration of Ant-Man arising from the recent movie, the character has been the subject of a few solo titles which have introduced several new members to the Lang extended family....all of whom are not included for the same reasons I've mentioned previously. So with all that said, I think that's a wrap, people.


Until I run out of ideas or get something terribly wrong and collapse into a puddle of shame, I remain



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