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Frank Cho's Latest Outrage-ous Sketch Variant Takes A Look "Behind" The Unstoppable Teenage Wasp (UPDATE)

It's been a while since Bleeding Cool has given its trusty clickbait generation device, the Bleeding Cool Wheel of Stories, a spin:

For old time's sake, let's spin the Wheel and see what we should write about today…

*spins wheel*

Ah. "What is Frank Cho up to?" An all time classic.

It's also an easy one. What is Frank Cho up to? The same thing he's always up to! Drawing "outrage" sketch variants and posting them to social media, just waiting to be repurposed as clickbait articles on Bleeding Cool, of course! (And yes, we know the wheel landed on Fuller House. It always lands on Fuller House. We don't have a goddamn unlimited budget for CGI wheels, you know!)

Today's subject: Nadia Pym, The Unstoppable Wasp, the star of an ongoing series by Jeremy Whitley, Elsa Charretier and Megan M. Wilson from Marvel Comics:

The daughter of Hank Pym, raised by the Red Room in Russia before escaping and moving to America to pursue her career as a super-scientist and hang with superheroes like Ms. Marvel and Mockingbird…

With Jarvis as a sort of… father figure?

Of course, even a super-smart teenage girl in the Marvel Universe will find herself engaging in the occasional fisticuffs:

It's a fun, lighthearted book, and the next issue is on sale on May 3.

But superstar artist Frank Cho has a totally different perspective on The Unstoppable Wasp:

Perhaps Cho is using his art to comment on the tendency of adult men, represented here by Luke Cage and Iron Fist, to sexualize teenage girls? That must be it.

The sketch cover, says Cho, will be available at a show in Kansas City.

But without Spider-Gwen shouting "outrage!" on the cover, will its value go up or down? This will probably require a follow-up piece.

UPDATE: After the publication of this article, Cho updated his Facebook post with an important clarification:

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