This was done for the TRDL R3 Jam, the character being Hank Pym/ Yellowjacket. I’ve always found this character fascinating. Marvel writers took what was essentially a dubiously redundant and undefined character (gee, two insect-based shrinkers, yay! Wait, he’s big! Wait, he’s weird!) and turned him into one of the earliest tragic figures I remember reading about as a kid: insecure, arrogant, a wife-beater, an accidental genocidal robot inventor… but throughout, he was a purveyor of lame-looking inventions and curiously gauche costuming. EXCEPT for Yellowjacket. I loved this persona. I loved the colors, Buscema’s way of illustrating his stance and anger (it was Buscema, right?) and something about the cowl. Anyway, I had just finished reading Secret Invasion, which I loved until the last issue, and I was stoked on the idea of stealth Skrull sleepers. This piece is a reference to the reveal that Pym has been a Skrull for a long time. And the easter egg, of course, is what happened to Wasp at the end of the book. Unfortunately, he has subsequently taken the name of Wasp and designed another shitty costume and displayed more ridiculous science. But we’ll always have Yellowjacket.

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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