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Fantastic Four #6
Latveria. The F4 have just arrived, and Doom sends his new sidekick Zora, now kitted out with some gold armour and going by the name Victorious, to deal with them. He's imbued her with some of the power cosmic, and Reed realises that's what's lured Galactus in. He blames Doom's miscalculations for endangering them all, but Doom claims that everything that's happened so far was all part of his plan. TBC.
...Huh. It usually takes me a lot longer than that to summarise an issue, but I guess that's pretty much all that happens plot-wise, and all the dialogue and character stuff is very generic old-school F4 adventures so I just don't have too much to say about it. Doom is still technically staying on the side of "not doing anything outright evil, just endangering everybody through his arrogance," but is otherwise indistinguishable from classic supervillain Doom in a way that's pretty dull and disappointing off the back of the Infamous Iron Man arc. (So far, not a single one-line acknowledgement that anybody even remembers the whole "trying to be a hero" business, has noticed the armour switch, or has anything to say about him going back to old habits. I was resigned to the inevitable status quo reset, but completely bypassing any character reactions to that and acting like Doom has just been his old self all along makes it ten times as annoying.)
So, for what it is, there are a few minor nice touches: I appreciate at least that Slott is going with the take on old-school Doom where the Latverians love him, and I did like the old lady and her goats. Some nice close-ups of Doom and good expressions from Aaron Kuder on art, and I particularly like his Sue. (He draws pretty good goats, too.)
But overall, like the whole of Slott's F4 run so far, this just feels to me like it's leaning so much into the old-school F4 tropes it ends up being a bland, forgettable retread of stuff we've seen a million times before. Which is even more frustrating coming straight on the heels of all the fresh and interesting new character stuff that's been going on with Doom since Secret Wars.
...Huh. It usually takes me a lot longer than that to summarise an issue, but I guess that's pretty much all that happens plot-wise, and all the dialogue and character stuff is very generic old-school F4 adventures so I just don't have too much to say about it. Doom is still technically staying on the side of "not doing anything outright evil, just endangering everybody through his arrogance," but is otherwise indistinguishable from classic supervillain Doom in a way that's pretty dull and disappointing off the back of the Infamous Iron Man arc. (So far, not a single one-line acknowledgement that anybody even remembers the whole "trying to be a hero" business, has noticed the armour switch, or has anything to say about him going back to old habits. I was resigned to the inevitable status quo reset, but completely bypassing any character reactions to that and acting like Doom has just been his old self all along makes it ten times as annoying.)
So, for what it is, there are a few minor nice touches: I appreciate at least that Slott is going with the take on old-school Doom where the Latverians love him, and I did like the old lady and her goats. Some nice close-ups of Doom and good expressions from Aaron Kuder on art, and I particularly like his Sue. (He draws pretty good goats, too.)
But overall, like the whole of Slott's F4 run so far, this just feels to me like it's leaning so much into the old-school F4 tropes it ends up being a bland, forgettable retread of stuff we've seen a million times before. Which is even more frustrating coming straight on the heels of all the fresh and interesting new character stuff that's been going on with Doom since Secret Wars.