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doomfans2019-04-26 01:12 am
nomadicwriter) wrote in doomfans2019-04-26 01:12 am
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Fantastic Four #9
Not much to summarise, here, I feel, as this story arc ties up in fairly predictable style. The F4 escape and free Galactus, who just leaves. Doom vows that after humiliating him they're now going to get slow agonising deaths instead of merciful ones, which frankly doesn't come off any different than his usual posturing. The F4 escape in the nick of time with the aid of Val's teleporter, the end.
The development of everybody who was watching the broadcast now having seen Doom's scars could potentially go somewhere interesting, but I won't be too surprised if it's never mentioned again. That said, I did quite like the scene of Doom watching all the reactions from the global news channels, and the fact there's actually a mix of different reactions including a certain amount of pity is fitting. (We'll ignore the question of how the depiction of what seems to be all-over burns is supposed to mesh with the current canon state of Doom's scarring, because it just doesn't.)
There's also one other nice little moment I really liked, where Doom is furious at the destruction of Mount Doom and Ben says he's still got plenty of other things named after him, but then when Doom says this one was actually named for his late father, is all, "Oh. Um. Sorry, Vic." (I gotta credit Bendis and co for the fact that I am now invested in these little snippets of the Ben and Doom relationship where I never was before.)
Art is once again a multi-artist (but admirably smooth and consistent) mix between Kuder, Caselli and this time Paco Medina, so I don't know whether to credit one of them, Slott, or colourist Erick Arciniega for something of an interesting choice with Doom's armour: up until the scene where he watches all the reactions to his scarring, the armour is depicted normally, but when we see him confront the F4 again after that, he's drawn with opaque, metallic-looking eyepieces so you can't see his eyes. Not a take I've seen done before, and as a regular thing it really wouldn't work as it reduces how much he can emote, but in this context it comes off as implying he's deliberately closed himself off due to feeling exposed, which is kind of neat.
So, several nice little touches this issue, but overall this has been a pretty forgettable story arc, and doubly disappointing for being launched off of undoing a lot of much more interesting character development. At this point, I'd really rather Slott leaves Doom out of the rest of his run, and hopefully someone else will pick him up soon and so something that actually builds on the character work of the past few years.
The development of everybody who was watching the broadcast now having seen Doom's scars could potentially go somewhere interesting, but I won't be too surprised if it's never mentioned again. That said, I did quite like the scene of Doom watching all the reactions from the global news channels, and the fact there's actually a mix of different reactions including a certain amount of pity is fitting. (We'll ignore the question of how the depiction of what seems to be all-over burns is supposed to mesh with the current canon state of Doom's scarring, because it just doesn't.)
There's also one other nice little moment I really liked, where Doom is furious at the destruction of Mount Doom and Ben says he's still got plenty of other things named after him, but then when Doom says this one was actually named for his late father, is all, "Oh. Um. Sorry, Vic." (I gotta credit Bendis and co for the fact that I am now invested in these little snippets of the Ben and Doom relationship where I never was before.)
Art is once again a multi-artist (but admirably smooth and consistent) mix between Kuder, Caselli and this time Paco Medina, so I don't know whether to credit one of them, Slott, or colourist Erick Arciniega for something of an interesting choice with Doom's armour: up until the scene where he watches all the reactions to his scarring, the armour is depicted normally, but when we see him confront the F4 again after that, he's drawn with opaque, metallic-looking eyepieces so you can't see his eyes. Not a take I've seen done before, and as a regular thing it really wouldn't work as it reduces how much he can emote, but in this context it comes off as implying he's deliberately closed himself off due to feeling exposed, which is kind of neat.
So, several nice little touches this issue, but overall this has been a pretty forgettable story arc, and doubly disappointing for being launched off of undoing a lot of much more interesting character development. At this point, I'd really rather Slott leaves Doom out of the rest of his run, and hopefully someone else will pick him up soon and so something that actually builds on the character work of the past few years.