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EMBRACE DOOM

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22:20 / 16.03.06

Doom 2099 was sorta cool, especially when Ellis let him TAKE OVER THE UNITED STATES.

Oh, and there already is a Latverian Tourist Board site.

17:45 / 24.03.06

Doom is by far the coolest, meanest, toughest vilain of the Marvel universe (the only one that can level up to him is DC's Darkseid)

And Doom 2099 was the only worth-reading thing in the whole 2099 debacle. From beggining to end.

In the words of another one of my favourites, Invader Zim: DOOM, I say, DOOM, DOOM, DOOM, DOOM, DOOM!!!!!!!!

18:31 / 24.03.06

In college I was taking a class on totalitarianism and I had a presentation to give. I wrote one to challenge the idea that there could not be such a thing as a benevolent dictator, which I based on Doom. The idea came from an old FF issue with Doom in Latveria. Went over pretty well, though I can't say I even agree with my premise.

Spyder Todd 2008

21:39 / 24.03.06

Personal favorite Doom story: Triumphant and Torment, which proves not only how much his kingdom love him, but also that even a dictator can love his mother. Though I've always wanted to read Doom 2099.

20:34 / 25.03.06

Uh oh, Doom got Thor's hammer!

21:35 / 25.03.06

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

23:00 / 25.03.06

He's breathing kind of heavy there. Did he jog all the way to Barbelith from Latveria?

23:23 / 25.03.06

Doom is probably my favorite villain in all of comicdom. I love his regal arrogance and that twisted sense of honor. How can you not love someone that has the balls to steal the Beyonder's powers?

23:37 / 25.03.06

Doom ain't worthy, yo!

00:41 / 26.03.06

Doom don't give a fuck, he'll graph some worthy genes or something to his hand, or come up with a evil plan or somethin'!

05:48 / 26.03.06

Doktor Doom
Ideal for control of aphids, spidermites and over 200 others flying or crawling insects. Most plants with infestations of these insects Should only need one application. For use on indoor & outdoor plants.

I chuckled.

I also love the Continous Killing Action For 60 Days that the can promises.

Now tell me, does Squirrel Girl have her own lethal spray?

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

06:14 / 26.03.06

Dude, Dr. Doom is my favourite super-hero even though he's a super villain. I was drunk a while ago and said some girl reminded me of Victor Von Doom and thought she'd take it as a compliment (I was drunk, by the way).

Hands Up!
Vote Dr. Doom!
You know it makes sense.

-PWEI, Def. Con. 1
It had to be quoted for this thread to be complete.

17:18 / 26.03.06

Doom is definitely Marvel's best supervillain. The fact that he has a twisted moral framework for his evilness makes him that much greater as a villain.
Did anyone read Mark Waid's recent run on FF? I thought he did a really nice job making him properly scary like a supervillain should be. The issue with Valeria made me shudder.
All of this makes me wonder how they made the Ultimatised Doom suck so hard.

However I still wish I had a castle full of robot clones to do my bidding and carry out my nefarious plots.

18:42 / 26.03.06

DOOM!

a detail from the football-themed piece I did with my buddy Gabriel for this year's JUST 1 PAGE anthology. he tells me that is actually Latveria's official banner.

01:09 / 27.03.06

Yeah, there's some rap CD by some guy who calls himself something like "MC Doom" I've seen on Friendster and MySpace and such...the cover of the CD shows a cartoony-drawn Dr. Doom with a microphone.

That banner is hilarious!

03:46 / 27.03.06

MF Doom @ allmusic.com

Here too.

17:18 / 27.03.06

If my wildest dreams came true and I became a comic book wirter of global fame and success, and I got hired by Marvel to make a all-heroes cross-over mega-event (since there's one every six months now), I'd call it DAYS OF DOOM, and would be all about the good Doctor kicking the asses of all Marvel super-heroes, one by one, during a mass robot invasion of America. I'd start it with a Latverian spy stealing a S.H.I.E.L.D stealth fighter jet and crashing it into Baxter Building in a preemptive suicidal attack (yeah, you hear me, just like 9/11) and the FF going M.I.A.. Just for starters. And I'd end it with Tchalla the Black Panther of Wakanda saving the US of A from DOOM's reign(the villain can't win, unfortunatelly) with a vibranium-powered nuke or somethin'. After all, only a king can beat a king, and it would be cool to see a pagan warrior from Africa saving the fundamentalist Christian white America from a totalitarian regime...

I hope someone from Marvel is reading this.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:40 / 28.03.06

(yeah, you hear me, just like 9/11)

Gosh, DM, you surely are a fearless iconoclast! However will the "suits" cope?

12:51 / 28.03.06

You flatter, me, dude. And not only that, I'd show the attack from the street folk level (as in Marvels), to add to the impact. Later on I'd show the same scene from FF's point of view, just to show how Reed save everybody by teleporting them to the N-zone, but that would be in issue 6 or 7 (of 8), when it's time to kick DOOM's ass in return. Right before Wakanda nuking Latveria.

It would really be a cool limited series. DOOM vs Avengers. DOOM vs. X-Men. DOOM's army vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. DOOM vs. Dr. Strange (that would be the coolest). I don't know yet where exactly I'd fit Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, and other "street heroes" in the seires. Maybe as some kind of underground guerrila resistance (insurgents?)

And I promise you this: No ending with an "ex-machina" time-reeboting Phoenix/Scarlet Witch bullshit. Live with the consequences of your actions in war times (including the inevitable death of unpopular B-team heores. They didn't kil Speedball already, did they?) Yeah.

And maybe the suits would go for it, since the zeitgeist is now shifting from "America is teh good guy" back to the old PC "maybe we should understand them better", but who kows.

Wait a minute, were you being sarcastic? Because that would really hurt my feelings...

03:47 / 31.03.06

03:57 / 31.03.06

Does that 'E' on his belt mean that this is Electro-Doom?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:00 / 31.03.06

Flamin' Johnny looks like he's twitching out. "Oh, that Doom!" (everybody does a sitcom family shrug)

05:44 / 31.03.06

Check out his sidearm. When's the last time he actually pulled the gun out and threatened someone with it, a 1970s issue of Spider-Man?

13:54 / 31.03.06

All right, I have to admit, I'm very very fanboy curious to see how someone like Doom could have the 'worthiness' to pick up the hammer. Even Superman had trouble picking it up in the JLA/Avengers crossover, I think (until Thor gave him permission or something), right? Maybe Doom rigs up a 'worthiness machine' that cloaks his eeevil body with a do-gooder aura. Or not.

14:12 / 31.03.06

Doom loves stealing ultimate power. Galactus power, Beyonder power, Hell power. I'm sure he'll come up with something. He just had an army of doombots attack the military base where they were studying the hammer. They couldn't move it, so they built a base around it. Doom dropped a bomb on that base to get to the hammer better. Next issue I imagine he'll try to pick it up.

04:50 / 02.05.06

This is why Doom rocks so hard. Trapped in Hell, with little power left, Clive Barker like hell-demons attack Doom.

04:51 / 02.05.06

Oh, and what a shitty ending to the Thor hammer saga. Doom is pretty kickass the whole issue, and then at the end he tries to pick up the hammer and can't. That's it. End of story. Blah.

Spyder Todd 2008

05:03 / 02.05.06

What!?!? Oh, sucktactular. See, this is why JMS pisses me off. It's not just the Gwen/Goblin lust fest and the icky Spider-Man eye gougings, its the stupid air of self importance that leads to absolutely nothing at all. The only reason people are even still talking about Teh Other is because Pete’s still in that ugly costume with wannabe Wolverine powers. Otherwise? We’d all have forgotten it happened or pretended it didn’t (like the aforementioned Gwen/Goblin lust fest).

Sorry, that paragraph got offtopic. But this is totally on: No one is more worthy than DOOM. That's the whole goddamn point. DOOM should be able to pick up the damn hammer, because he's DOOM. It should be as simple as that, period.

A

11:48 / 02.05.06

Bah! what need has the mighty DOOM for a trinket such as the puny hammer of that Norse Fabio-lookalike? He can create his own hammer, one with the power to shatter planets and see into men's very souls, and with a claw thing on one end for taking nails out of things.

17:33 / 02.05.06

DOOM DID lift that hammer!

JMS is not my favorite writer, but I believe alot of his Marvel stuff comes off as stinky due to editorial interference rather than his own poor craft. He wanted to make Peter Parker the father of Gwen's babies, and The Other x-over bloated his intriguing spider-totem sub-plot to grotesque proportions. Left alone, his stuff would rock. I believe his Doom, like ours, WOULD have very clearly (that is to say, very visibly) lifted Thor's hammer and then tossed it aside as if it were a useless toy.

Indeed, the scene in in FF #537 is ambiguous enough to suggest HE DID lift the hammer (as the cover shows). Perhaps he was expecting to be dowsed with unimaginable power, but received so much less than expected. Since he HATES being wrong, this was an UNACCEPTABLE failure to him and so he left the hammer behind. He'll be back though. He'll take on Thor AND the FF AND the entire Marvel U!!! Just wait...

17:40 / 02.05.06

No way Stone. We see him go to touch it, laser beam thingie shoots out from it, and then we see Doom next to the hammer which is in the same position on the ground, and then Doom starts doing the "I didn't want the hammer anyway, I'm leaving before you guys gloat".

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