Doom and the Masters of Evil is great fun. It's an all-ages comic that has him scheming to use the power of the infinity gems to grant himself one wish, and what he chooses is a great character moment.
I ship Doom/Wanda so hard, you have no idea.
Me too. It's a crime that there's no fic. (I'd like to write my own, but all my ideas turn into sprawling epics that require rereading a bunch of comics I don't own.)
Wow, Reed's being very honest and kind here, it's a change. (Also a comic I should read, clearly.)
It's a fabulous one-shot where Doom invites Reed to the embassy for a Latverian holiday called Rapprochement Day, where people are supposed to reach out to someone that they've wronged. (He's plotting other things in the meantime, of course, but he also follows through on the civil evening with Reed.) I adore the intro pages, which have Reed reflecting on his teenage mistakes:
It's the only comic I've seen have Reed show that kind of introspection about his side of things. (It's a real shame Dwayne McDuffie never got to write more Doctor Doom stories, since he was obviously a fan. He also used his Damage Control series to retcon that daft Silver Age story where Doom stiffs Luke Cage out of $200, having Doom be outraged when he learns his minions embezzled the money.)
Strange and Doom hanging out will never not be funny to me.
I love it when heroes who have priorities bigger than "fight villains" are shown to have neutral relationship with Doom. He and Strange get along pretty well in this book, and there have been some good moments where he and Namor and T'challa interact quite civilly as fellow kings.
The Doom and Vincent scene makes me think that Doom is disappointed more by the fact that Vincent failed than by the fact that Vincent tried to kill him.
Yes - if you're going to be a backstabber, then you'd better at least be successful enough at it to be worthy of the name of Doom! I really love the look of Vincent's character design; it would be great to have some sort of version of him in 616, interacting with the Richards kids.
Do you know if any interior art for the Doom miniseries was ever released?
Sadly, so far as I know, it wasn't. Nobody seems to be too sure what happened there, or if any of the interior work was actually completed. Such a missed opportunity.
Delivering and becoming Valeria's godfather is one of my favourite Doom moments.
It's a great moment for him because he gets to beat Reed by by doing a genuinely good deed when Reed was unable do it himself. I think more writers should play with the idea of Doom trying to beat Reed at his own game by doing good or heroic things better/first - you can get plenty of mileage out of the heroes driving themselves nuts trying to uncover the evil scheme, and it gives Doom a way to get the upper hand from time to time without having him win a devastating victory.
And yeah, Valeria is only supposed to be three and a half in those pages. This is why I'm so impressed with kid Victor in Books of Doom - most comic artists just can't seem to draw kids younger than about the 6-8 stage when they start getting more adult-like proportions.
I will never get tired of Doom laying the smack down on Dracula ON THE MOON.
I know. That page is everything that is glorious about superhero comics right there.
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Date: 2014-04-24 12:29 am (UTC)I ship Doom/Wanda so hard, you have no idea.
Me too. It's a crime that there's no fic. (I'd like to write my own, but all my ideas turn into sprawling epics that require rereading a bunch of comics I don't own.)
Wow, Reed's being very honest and kind here, it's a change. (Also a comic I should read, clearly.)
It's a fabulous one-shot where Doom invites Reed to the embassy for a Latverian holiday called Rapprochement Day, where people are supposed to reach out to someone that they've wronged. (He's plotting other things in the meantime, of course, but he also follows through on the civil evening with Reed.) I adore the intro pages, which have Reed reflecting on his teenage mistakes:
It's the only comic I've seen have Reed show that kind of introspection about his side of things. (It's a real shame Dwayne McDuffie never got to write more Doctor Doom stories, since he was obviously a fan. He also used his Damage Control series to retcon that daft Silver Age story where Doom stiffs Luke Cage out of $200, having Doom be outraged when he learns his minions embezzled the money.)
Strange and Doom hanging out will never not be funny to me.
I love it when heroes who have priorities bigger than "fight villains" are shown to have neutral relationship with Doom. He and Strange get along pretty well in this book, and there have been some good moments where he and Namor and T'challa interact quite civilly as fellow kings.
The Doom and Vincent scene makes me think that Doom is disappointed more by the fact that Vincent failed than by the fact that Vincent tried to kill him.
Yes - if you're going to be a backstabber, then you'd better at least be successful enough at it to be worthy of the name of Doom! I really love the look of Vincent's character design; it would be great to have some sort of version of him in 616, interacting with the Richards kids.
Do you know if any interior art for the Doom miniseries was ever released?
Sadly, so far as I know, it wasn't. Nobody seems to be too sure what happened there, or if any of the interior work was actually completed. Such a missed opportunity.
Delivering and becoming Valeria's godfather is one of my favourite Doom moments.
It's a great moment for him because he gets to beat Reed by by doing a genuinely good deed when Reed was unable do it himself. I think more writers should play with the idea of Doom trying to beat Reed at his own game by doing good or heroic things better/first - you can get plenty of mileage out of the heroes driving themselves nuts trying to uncover the evil scheme, and it gives Doom a way to get the upper hand from time to time without having him win a devastating victory.
And yeah, Valeria is only supposed to be three and a half in those pages. This is why I'm so impressed with kid Victor in Books of Doom - most comic artists just can't seem to draw kids younger than about the 6-8 stage when they start getting more adult-like proportions.
I will never get tired of Doom laying the smack down on Dracula ON THE MOON.
I know. That page is everything that is glorious about superhero comics right there.