You are so right about Slott's take on Doom. So lacking imagination. When you have characters that have been around as long as Doom I think you are practically obligated to polish them up and give them a fresh look. Slott was too lazy to do that...it's easier to come up with a hostage taking/death trap villain then to try something new.
I don't always agree with everything that Cantwell does with Doom but I support his initiative to do it. I mean, how can you not like that we found out Doom is a Lennon fan? He's humanizing him but not forgetting that Doom gets up to some bad stuff sometimes. His ego can be so fragile, which impels him to capture that poor talking head news guy and torture him for a while. It's so petty but so Doom. He's showing us many facets instead of the narrow view of Slott.
The X-Men/Fantastic Four mini is only four issues and is our best chance to l get us the Valeria / Doom reunion. She and Franklin are stowaways on Kitty's boat (don't ask, I have no idea why she has a boat!) when Doom's craft rises from the depths and confronts them. So once again Doom confirms his unofficial (except to me) title of King of Last Page Appearances.
I agree with you on the pricing because Marvel has been sneaking in these issues at $4.99, sometimes for just the first issue and then they go back to $3.99. They've had these special issues for $9.99 too. But many of us posters on CBR feel that they are slowing rolling in this new $4.99 price plateau. DC was holding things down to $2.99 but that stopped too and they're at $3.99.
It makes it hard for someone like me who after all these years only follows the comics with a Doom appearance. So I will buy them for one arc then that's that!
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Date: 2020-02-09 06:02 pm (UTC)I don't always agree with everything that Cantwell does with Doom but I support his initiative to do it. I mean, how can you not like that we found out Doom is a Lennon fan? He's humanizing him but not forgetting that Doom gets up to some bad stuff sometimes. His ego can be so fragile, which impels him to capture that poor talking head news guy and torture him for a while. It's so petty but so Doom. He's showing us many facets instead of the narrow view of Slott.
The X-Men/Fantastic Four mini is only four issues and is our best chance to l get us the Valeria / Doom reunion. She and Franklin are stowaways on Kitty's boat (don't ask, I have no idea why she has a boat!) when Doom's craft rises from the depths and confronts them. So once again Doom confirms his unofficial (except to me) title of King of Last Page Appearances.
I agree with you on the pricing because Marvel has been sneaking in these issues at $4.99, sometimes for just the first issue and then they go back to $3.99. They've had these special issues for $9.99 too. But many of us posters on CBR feel that they are slowing rolling in this new $4.99 price plateau. DC was holding things down to $2.99 but that stopped too and they're at $3.99.
It makes it hard for someone like me who after all these years only follows the comics with a Doom appearance. So I will buy them for one arc then that's that!