No joke, when I first read the “Nadia’s Neat Assassination Facts” fight scene in @jeremywhitley’s Unstoppable Wasp it immediately reminded me of the unique fight scenes from the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies! I mean, think about it: both Nadia & Sherlock are able to intricately predict & strategize own their specific fighting moves and the enemies’ counter attacks either immediately prior to or during mid-fight to an astonishing level of near perfect accuracy!
From The Unstoppable Wasp (2017) #4 by Jeremy Whitley & Elsa Charretier.
365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…
Back to School Supplemental - Geniuses In action Research Labs (G.I.R.L.)
Founded by Nadia Van Dyne, the young heroine known as the Unstoppable Wasp, the Geniuses In action Research Labs is an enterprise that endeavors to assess the Earth's greatest female scientific minds and provide them with the support and guidance needed to help them fulfill their potential.
With the aide of Edwin Jarvis, Nadia recruited several young scientists and offered them funding and a research space to continue their studies and conduct their experiments. Dr. Barbara Morese (Mockingbird) has acted as a mentor to these young scientists and the former villains, Poundcakes and Letha were later brought on to provide security.
Thus far, there have been four principle researches working at the GIRL lab, each focusing on a different scientific discipline. These young scientists include:
Priya Aggarwal
A true prodigy in the field of theoretical botany. Priya developed a special formula that facilities communication with plant life. An accident caused by a saboteur caused Priya to become exposed to a gaseous form of this formula and she ended up gaining the ability to telepathically control plant life.
Priscilla LaShayla Smith
Shay, as she prefers to be called, is a young technological genius who was trying to build a functioning teleportation machine. A malfunction in her device caused an explosion that caused Shay to be thrown from the window of the apartment she shared with her father. Fortunately, The Wasp was there to save Shay and the young woman went on to accept Nadia’s invitation to join GIRL. Whist there, Shay worked alongside Tai in creating a pair of ‘Vision Gloves’ that utilized Horton Cells to make them temporarily intangible; thus allowing for entirely non-invasive surgical procedures.
Ying Liu
Ying was an orphan raised in the notorious Red Room where she befriended Nadia. During her training at the Red Room, Ying showed a affinity and tremendous skill for biochemistry. It was with Ying’s help that Nadia had recreated the size-changing Pym particle thus facilitating her escape. After this escape, Ying was dispatched to retrieve her. This ultimately offered Ying the chance to escape herself, yet her Red Room handlers had implanted a miniature bomb at the base of her skull to dissuade defection. Nadia and Shay were able to safely remove this bomb with the use of the Vision Gloves and Ying went on to join GIRL.
Taina Miranda
Taina ‘Tai’ Miranda was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age. She applied herself to the study of engineering, robots and cybernetics. She used these skills to provide improved accommodations to her home, including a lift for her wheelchair and a exo-suit that enabled her to play goalie for her sister’s soccer club. Hearing about these feats, Nadia recruited Tai to GIRL and the young woman jumped at the chance at having greater resources to pursue her experiments.
Additional members of the Geniuses In action Research Labs include Amber Silverstein, Jeanne Foucault, Justine, and Lexi Miranda. The enterprise first appeared in the pages of The Unstoppable Wasp #2 (2017).
Marvel Press has announce a new young adult novel featuring Nadia Van Dyne, aka The Unstoppable Wasp. The Unstoppable Wasp is written by Sam Maggs and will feature the teenage Unstoppable Wasp and the G.I.R.L. (Genius In action Research Labs) squad. The novel will follow Jeremy Whitley's comics run.
The Unstoppable Wasp finds Nadia struggling with not having enough time to do everything in addition to everything being new - a new Super Hero, new friends, new family, new job, and new to being her own person. Her new virtual assistant promises to give her the ability to “do less, experience more,” but things are never that simple.
I’ve read about The Wasp, aka Janet Van Dyne on and off in my Marvel comics reading. But, when I saw this book was written by Jeremy Whitley of Princeless and Raven Pirate Princess fame, I knew I had to give it a try. And I’m so glad I did too!
Hank Pym has a daughter. And she’s smart. She also spent most of her small childhood as a prisoner of The Red Room (the one made famous by the fact that it trained Black Widow). Now she’s a teenager in the United States, trying to reclaim her birthright (since Hank Pym is no longer with us), as well as make new friends, and get some US Citizenship as well.
She also meets Hank’s ex-wife, Janet Van Dyne (and there’s some turbulent water under that relationship’s bridge in most of the comics I’ve read), and the way that the Janet and Nadia relationship was written was just so amazing.
I was so bummed when I finished this and then the second Volume, because at the time that was it. They had decided to pull the title. But, now (well, as of this summer). There will be more. There’s going to be more of the Wasps!! I am very psyched.
Oh, and as an added bonus, in the ‘Letters’ section that a lot of comics have started to go back to. There are stories of real life scientists, female ones. It’s just… amazing all around.
You may like this book If you Liked: Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Invincible by Robert Kirkman, or The New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman
The Unstoppable Wasp, Vol. 1: Unstoppable by Jeremy Whitley
