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Picspam of Doom!
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dhampyresa and I got chatting about favourite depictions of Doom in the comments of the last post, and I have folders full of collected scans of Doctor Doom pages, I thought I'd dig through them and compile a picspam of some of my favourite images.
It seems appropriate to open this post with the most glorious intro page ever, from the Doom and the Masters of Evil miniseries:
Of course, Doom's actual first appearance way back in 1962 in Fantastic Four #5 was also pretty badass, when he turned up in a helicopter painted like a shark. As you do.
My favourite version of his origin story was always Books of Doom, which has a great take on young Victor:
And some imagery that has stuck with me since the first time I read it years ago:
And apparently stuck with Jim Cheung too, since there's a great callback to that image of Victor in the burning pentagram in his spectacular double page spread of Doom's origin story from Children's Crusade:
Children's Crusade also gave us the glory that is Doom/Wanda:
Or alternatively, there's Doom's relationship with Morgan Le Fay, as depicted in various Iron Man stories such as Legacy of Doom:
And Mighty Avengers, with art by the amazing Marko Djurdjevic, who draws my favourite version of the Doom mask ever:
...And then there was that time in Dwayne McDuffie's Fantastic Four Special #1 where Doom invited Reed to have a candlelit dinner and they finished off a college chess game and then Reed gave him jewellery.
Of course, Reed's been trying to build bridges with Doom for a long time, like when Doom did the heroes a good turn at the end of the Heroes Reborn arc:
But mostly, sadly for Reed, Doom definitely has a type - and possibly just a few mommy issues. As seen all the way back as far as Astonishing Tales in the early 70s:
And in my favourite panel from the Doom: The Emperor returns mini:
But we do get to see Doom get to grips with his issues in awesome graphic novel Triumph and Torment, where he saves his mother's soul from hell:
And as a bonus, we get lots of fabulous Mike Mignola art of him and Doctor Strange hanging out and getting to know each other:
Doom's always been more complicated than just a one-note villain, but John Byrne's Fantastic Four run set the gold standard; Byrne's Doom was a force to be reckoned with:
And not necessarily the worst option for the people of Latveria.
Plus we get to see his human side...
And that Doom can be a surprisingly good father to his newly adopted son...
Except when he's not so much:
Though my favourite take on Doom as Dad comes from "What If - Secret Wars", an AU where the heroes and villains get stranded on Battleworld and Doom has a son with the Enchantress. I still live in hope of seeing Vincent Von Doom brought into the main Marvel universe:
And while we're on the subject of missed opportunities, I'm also still bummed that this miniseries was cancelled before it ever existed, though we are left with some fantastic covers:
On the other hand, even if Doom has no biological children in the 616 verse, we do at least get to see him deliver, name, and appoint himself honorary godfather to Valeria Richards in the Fantastic Four comics:
Which Jonathan Hickman picked up and ran with in his turn on the title, where we discovered that Valeria is just as fond of her Uncle Doom as he is of her.
Of course, Hickman's Doom is pretty awesome all round:
But then, Doom is that way. Like that time he fought a lion naked in the original Doom miniseries:
Or resisted the Purple Man's amped up mind control in Emperor Doom:
Or when he faced the goddess Bast in Doomwar and passed her purity test, because his motivations are sincere:
Or that time in Captain Britain and MI:13 when he dissed Dracula. On the moon.
For he is Doom.
dhampyresa and I got chatting about favourite depictions of Doom in the comments of the last post, and I have folders full of collected scans of Doctor Doom pages, I thought I'd dig through them and compile a picspam of some of my favourite images.It seems appropriate to open this post with the most glorious intro page ever, from the Doom and the Masters of Evil miniseries:
Of course, Doom's actual first appearance way back in 1962 in Fantastic Four #5 was also pretty badass, when he turned up in a helicopter painted like a shark. As you do.
My favourite version of his origin story was always Books of Doom, which has a great take on young Victor:
And some imagery that has stuck with me since the first time I read it years ago:
And apparently stuck with Jim Cheung too, since there's a great callback to that image of Victor in the burning pentagram in his spectacular double page spread of Doom's origin story from Children's Crusade:
Children's Crusade also gave us the glory that is Doom/Wanda:
Or alternatively, there's Doom's relationship with Morgan Le Fay, as depicted in various Iron Man stories such as Legacy of Doom:
And Mighty Avengers, with art by the amazing Marko Djurdjevic, who draws my favourite version of the Doom mask ever:
...And then there was that time in Dwayne McDuffie's Fantastic Four Special #1 where Doom invited Reed to have a candlelit dinner and they finished off a college chess game and then Reed gave him jewellery.
Of course, Reed's been trying to build bridges with Doom for a long time, like when Doom did the heroes a good turn at the end of the Heroes Reborn arc:
But mostly, sadly for Reed, Doom definitely has a type - and possibly just a few mommy issues. As seen all the way back as far as Astonishing Tales in the early 70s:
And in my favourite panel from the Doom: The Emperor returns mini:
But we do get to see Doom get to grips with his issues in awesome graphic novel Triumph and Torment, where he saves his mother's soul from hell:
And as a bonus, we get lots of fabulous Mike Mignola art of him and Doctor Strange hanging out and getting to know each other:
Doom's always been more complicated than just a one-note villain, but John Byrne's Fantastic Four run set the gold standard; Byrne's Doom was a force to be reckoned with:
And not necessarily the worst option for the people of Latveria.
Plus we get to see his human side...
And that Doom can be a surprisingly good father to his newly adopted son...
Except when he's not so much:
Though my favourite take on Doom as Dad comes from "What If - Secret Wars", an AU where the heroes and villains get stranded on Battleworld and Doom has a son with the Enchantress. I still live in hope of seeing Vincent Von Doom brought into the main Marvel universe:
And while we're on the subject of missed opportunities, I'm also still bummed that this miniseries was cancelled before it ever existed, though we are left with some fantastic covers:
On the other hand, even if Doom has no biological children in the 616 verse, we do at least get to see him deliver, name, and appoint himself honorary godfather to Valeria Richards in the Fantastic Four comics:
Which Jonathan Hickman picked up and ran with in his turn on the title, where we discovered that Valeria is just as fond of her Uncle Doom as he is of her.
Of course, Hickman's Doom is pretty awesome all round:
But then, Doom is that way. Like that time he fought a lion naked in the original Doom miniseries:
Or resisted the Purple Man's amped up mind control in Emperor Doom:
Or when he faced the goddess Bast in Doomwar and passed her purity test, because his motivations are sincere:
Or that time in Captain Britain and MI:13 when he dissed Dracula. On the moon.
For he is Doom.
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It's like Victor decided that he would show Reed how much better he is and he would do it while looking bette in green than Reed ever dreamed off. Another thing that's interesting is how easily Reed and Victor could swap hero/villain places. hell, you could argue that Victor is colour-coded as the hero (primary colours) while reed is coded as the villain (secondary colours). (This issue is apparently unfindable. :( )
Oh, I like your headcanon!