New Brevoort Formspring

See, hate is way too strong a word here. This is why it can become difficult to have a conversation like this about a particular work, because anything you say gets exaggerated by the listener.

To me, I found the notion that everybody in that story, including a full complement of SHIELD personnel, walks around pretending that they don’t know that Hank is Yellowjacket and that he’s had a psychotic breakdown that makes him a danger to both himself and others around him much more difficult to buy than the admittedly-crazy original version in which they didn’t know Hank was YJ. Joe and I went back and forth over this plot point as the series was developed, but I don’t think we really licked it in the final story. It’s still pretty tough to swallow, and uses the kind of psychology that you might have seen in a 1960s sitcom–”Don’t wake up a sleepwalker!”