I don't know Sinister very well and, for example, I don't know if and how in his schemes he intended to deal with the Phoenix Force. In other worlds does he wants to usurp ultimate powers upon reality? Once again I don't know the answer to that question, but it seems to me that Franklin is perhaps a little bit too much to handle for him : the kid is a subject of concern for the likes of Mephisto, Galactus and the Celestials!
... Of course that put him exactly in Doom's domain of action...
I haven't read Waid's run, but Victor wasn't always that bad with Frankin when he sent him to Hell : most often the kid had his power. He destoyed the ponies he promised him once - but that's understandable. Ponies!
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Iron Maiden, I hesitated a lonf time before using Maleev's Pieta for the cover contest of the week. I was secretly hoping that you had in your collection a forgotten cover with Werner and Vic...
Anyway I almost used the coverof FF 141 - one of my favorite FF covers, really!
The 'atomic kid from the village of the damned' version of Franklin fascinated me when I was a kid!
Now I can really see Victor coming for help with his cosmic power siphoning device. It could have been a fun story... Would the FF have thanked him then? I guess that the authors weren't ready yet to play with the good doctor in the family's soap opera...