Some Characters Can't Stand Even Moderate Success

I've mentioned a few times in my monthly solicitation posts that I'm a little confused at what Marvel's doing with Ant-Man. They given Scott an ongoing, and after the first arc, they skip a month, then do an annual, and August is going to have some one-shot, Secret Wars tie-in. It's a curious approach.

I have a theory. It's the slant Spencer and Rosanas are taking with the character, expanded to the book in general. What I mean is, the point that was repeated throughout the first arc was that Scott never sees anything through. He's always eager to start, but equally eager to bail, whether things are going bad or not. So now, when he's finally gotten his own series, when he's got a movie coming out, he bails on it. Too much work, too much chance of failure being the lead character. Easier to take months off, or do some one-shot issues. Much less pressure with those. Also, it serves to lower everyone's expectations of Scott, so he can simultaneously be annoyed nobody believes in him, while not having to really prove them wrong.