Yeah, I don't want to complain about too much going on in the issues after years of Bendis pacing, but it is reaching the point where I'd like to see some of it given a bit more room to breathe. It feels like Doom's bouncing around from one scenario or newly introduced character to another with much time for relationships to develop from one issue to the next. Making this issue a big multi-confrontation where everybody comes together at the same time means he doesn't get to have a proper in-depth exchange with any of the characters chasing him, so I hope there's going to be a bit more to it next issue rather than Doom immediately leaving them all behind and running off home to interact with another different set of characters again.
I like little clues as to how old Victor is and I have always placed him, Reed and Ben be 40ish.
Yes, it's hard to tell with the constantly changing timeline, but I tend to assume they're meant to be somewhere around about 38-40. I'd prefer it if they were actually allowed to get a little bit older, but I feel like Marvel wants to keep all its characters at least nominally "young" so they never seem to quite get into the mid-40s range. I suppose it's all tied back to keeping Spider-Man eternally young since he and Johnny are contemporaries. Still, the Richards kids have finally been allowed to age up a bit, so perhaps there's hope! I think the kind of stories we're seeing with Doom now in this and Infamous Iron Man are pretty fitting for a character who's getting a bit older and perhaps starting to have something of supervillainous midlife crisis.
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I like little clues as to how old Victor is and I have always placed him, Reed and Ben be 40ish.
Yes, it's hard to tell with the constantly changing timeline, but I tend to assume they're meant to be somewhere around about 38-40. I'd prefer it if they were actually allowed to get a little bit older, but I feel like Marvel wants to keep all its characters at least nominally "young" so they never seem to quite get into the mid-40s range. I suppose it's all tied back to keeping Spider-Man eternally young since he and Johnny are contemporaries. Still, the Richards kids have finally been allowed to age up a bit, so perhaps there's hope! I think the kind of stories we're seeing with Doom now in this and Infamous Iron Man are pretty fitting for a character who's getting a bit older and perhaps starting to have something of supervillainous midlife crisis.