Fans of Marvel's Doctor Doom

The final part of this five issue arc, and it goes out with the same high standards it came in.

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Overall, I would definitely recommend these issues to all fans of Doom. Ed Brubaker has a brilliant grasp of Doom's character (no surprise, after Books of Doom) and the art is very nice too. Quality stuff.

Another fun and satisfyingly Doom-filled issue.

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Ah, this is more like it; the Doom storyline's finally getting going after all two setup-heavy intro issues, and this time we get a more substantial appearance.

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This is very much a middle chapter, lots of setup and still only a brief cameo for Doom, so, just a short review:

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This is a post I've been meaning to make for a while, but I was waiting on getting hold of some comics, and also, Marvel has been keeping this comm busy with a flood of high quality Doom appearances. (Long may it continue!) But now I've had the chance to get my scans together, I present a little bit of a Marvel universe history lesson.



Doom's origin is sadly not as well known as it could be, since adaptations like the movies and the Ultimate comics have a bad tendency to chop the whole thing out to avoid bringing magic into the story. That really does his character a great disservice, since not only is magic an important part of Doom's powerset, but it's his backstory that makes it so impressive and even semi-sympathetic that he became the supervillain we know today.

( The epic history of Victor Von Doom )