Just because you disagree with something doesn't mean it's "incorrect." You're making suppositions just as much as the previous poster. Disagree all you want, but don't say, "We have different opinions/interpretations, and therefore you are wrong." Come on.
You fail to realize that Hickman has taken a different track with Doom. He is a big fan of the GN Doctor Strange/Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment. I know because I spoke to him in Artist's Alley at C2E2 in Chicago last month. I even showed him the pages from the GN that I own, the color guides that are pieced together to form the colored pages of the novel. He said they were the coolest things he'd ever seen. So yeah, he sees them as allies in this endeavor. But we will see how it all plays out.
Read the preview. It is totally correct. Strange is fully cognizant of what happened in the creation of Battleworld, helped Doom with it, and opted not to take on the power of being the godhead in Doom's favor. Now he's actively supporting Doom with full knowledge of how things came to pass, even if we get the sense that it's primarily because Battleworld's continued existence (i.e., the continued existence of everything that's left from the multiverse) depends on Doom maintaining his power, though we don't know if that's because it just all falls apart if Doom is not believed to be God, or because there are specific external threats to deal with.
Don't forget, Strange had already attempted to sell his soul and been told he didn't really have anything to offer on the deal, and then he was the boss of the Black Priests destroying Earths to stop Incursions. Also, none of this being true necessarily makes Doom a 'true hero'. Perhaps he's just a necessary evil for the continued existence of, well, anything.
Could it still turn out that Doom has manipulated Strange, or messed with his memories, or wasn't really the one to construct Battleworld? Sure, I guess... but there's no real basis for it in the first two issues, or in the preview pages.
This preivew looks exciting. The fact that Doom and Strange are completely aware of what happened makes this story even more intreging. This also means that the two life rafts have been in stasis for a LONG time. Story keeps getting better.
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I just thought of something.
When Richards finds out that Doom's, um, with his wife and chilling with his kids, and Strange is cool with that.
Uh, outside of "the wife and kids are just playing the long game", I'm not sure how much I'd forgive him for that.
"Race is a social construct, they say. And I remind them that money is a social construct, too. Social constructs have power." — DeRay Mckesson
Lets hope someone can reign in Esad Ribic and tone down the :-o faces that nearly everyone had.
It doesn't matter if Ultimate Sue is dead or alive. The Maker knows that he has zero chances with her and is at peace about that. He just liked to know that, somewhere, in some other world, things worked for Sue and him, an they had that wonderful daughter (the Maker hasn't still met his 616 counterpart, but he has met Val once).
He won't like that Doom stole 616 Reed's family. He would try to destroy Doom and steal his power anyways, but because of Sue and Val, he's more likely to go sadistic on his ass.