A major missed opportunity with Iron Doom is how we got no Iron Doom vs. The Maker fight. We just got a lame climax with Mephisto.
A major missed opportunity with Iron Doom is how we got no Iron Doom vs. The Maker fight. We just got a lame climax with Mephisto.
I want to think Maker was involved in Avengers or Venom at the time (either way it was stupid why he couldn't use him) and basically had to settle for Mephisto.
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I totally agree with your take on Victor's status post SW. IMO it was Hickman's gift to the character, if you will. He had as close to a clean slate as you can get considering his rather long history and the sometimes contradictory takes on the character. I give major props to Bendis for taking Hickman up on his Secret Wars ending, certainly being more faithful to it that Slott has been. Slott seems to be trying to have it both ways. He started out promisingly with the introduction of Zora/Victorious. He had completely withdrawn from the world and she drew him back in again. Having had his face restored at the end of SW opened things up for him to a life he never thought possible and we saw this in the on again off again courtship of Amara. Sure, he took up the mantle of Iron Man but he really had very little resemblance to IM....with the dark colors and cape he still looked more like Doom than Iron Man. While some onlookers were seen calling him Iron Man, I don't think the public really bought into him as Iron Man either.
But then Slott has Doom immediately hating on the Fantastic Four right off the bat. Never mind that he had been with Ben and Johnny during those issues of MTIO and before that, he and Ben interacted quite a bit in Infamous Iron Man. But Slott just ignores that and no mention is made. Even more important, it ignores a conversation Ben and Reed had towards end of Zdarsky's MTIO where Ben tells Reed that he thought "their" Doom was really trying. But Ben seems to have gotten amnesia in Slott's run.
Now we have this plot between Doom and the Puppet Master that Slott is cooking up. I don't have any interest in this either. Prediction: the Puppet Master will turn on Doom, who has to be crazy to give him a couple of pounds of cosmically radiated clay.
As for the Maker vs Mephisto discussion, I would rather it have been the Maker also but I don't think it would have explained the Cynthia von Doom doppelganger. That does seem like something that is more in Mephisto's ballpark considering the supernatural nature of whatever "she" was. We were lead to believe in Triumph and Torment that she was on the path to having her soul ascend to a higher plane and achieving redemption. I kind of doubt the Maker would have enough knowledge to create such an entity. I could see Mephisto wanting to bedevil Ben too. He was not in a good place either and I thought it was not in character for him to threaten the staff at the Latverian Embassy after they repeatedly told them they didn't know anything about their former leader. And he was very brutish about destroying some items that were of value to the Latverian people, not just Doom. Maybe Mephisto was influencing his actions.
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Congrats on Victor getting a solo!!! I'm very excited for this and I hope we can finally get some Kristoff in this comic, now would be a great time for Doom and Son reunion. I will be adding this to my list!
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Yeah, that run looked cool.
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Of course, what do I know but these days it looked to me like LaRocca has been using a lot of digital tools as opposed to his Fantastic Four run. I agree with Ray that he did a great job on that. I also like the work he did on the Stan Lee Meets Doctor Doom issue. The preview page reminds me of his work in that comic