Bowen Designs Yellowjacket

Distributor: Bowen Designs
Sculptor Jason Smith (Digital Sculpture)
Size Over 12 inches
Type Statue
Release December 2010
Run Size TBD
Price $185.00

Robert's Two Cents
I’m a huge Hank Pym fan. I hate the way he has been vilified and reviled over the years. Jan has forgiven him why can’t Bendis? I was even willing to accept that he had developed a multiple personality and the Yellowjacket persona was responsible for him striking The Wasp. My favorite of his guises was Dr. Pym, Adventurer. I really liked Rover his AI flying vehicle. He kept a gillion inventions and gizmos in his pockets and somehow, amazingly, he never lost any of them.

Points in Favor

• The colors are really good. Bowen has been doing a much better job of attaining the texture feel without making the colors splotchy for a while now.
• Classic pose.
• I like the goggles.

Points Against

• The base is bland.
• I’d have like a smaller Yellowjacket on there too that was flying or a companion mini Wasp flying around him.

Recommendation: HOT BUY! Yellowjacket is one of the most controversial characters from Marvel Comics ever. It’s especially interesting that the whole thing about him abusing his wife, The Wasp, seems to have been the result of a misunderstanding between the writer (Jim Shooter) and the artist (Bob Hall). This is one of the few male yellow costumes that makes sense and looks good. Wolverine, not so much.