Yes, the hints of Reed's attitude rubbing Brashear the wrong way earlier were intriguing - that's another detail that could do with some follow-up, but maybe we'll see more of it in the next issue or two if they go ahead with Doom's plan. Agreed on being suspicious of the so-called ultimate nullifier, too; Doom was talking it up as his ace in the hole so much that I initially assumed it was a fake and his plan was to let Kang succeed in betraying him so he'd end up with it. But I guess it could still be an elaborate bluff where he knows Kang will be more convinced if he didn't win too easily.

Not really sure how to feel about a Doom prose novel without a lot more information first. I don't know what the previous Marvel prose books have been like, but movie and TV tie-ins are always such a crapshoot quality-wise, and far more often terrible than good. Hopefully if it's Doom as the protagonist it should at least be a more three-dimensional take on him than something like Slott's F4, but I don't know if they'd let a writer do anything very interesting with him in a prose tie-in. I'd be very interested to find out what it's going to be about, since there are a limit to the scenarios you can put Doom in where he's the character you're meant to be rooting for - maybe a lost adventure from the Infamous Iron Man era, or something revolving around Mephisto and Cynthia or Doom's past if you go by that "Harrowing" title?