Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Here are a couple scans from the latest issue of this Avengers mini.

I'm conflicted about it.

But DOOM! is always enjoyable.

Enjoy!



I do love this cover.



I add a thought bubble in my version, "Yes, DOOM hits this on a regular basis."

Anyway. The Avengers and the X-Men have "Shut up! No, you shut up!" super-fight and Wanda puts the whammy on them all and transports herself and the Young Avengers to a place of safety...



But it isn't! Turns out in a TWIST! that Wanda's Psycho-outing was partially caused by Victor. Wanda came to him after her children "died" and he helped her control the "Life Force" and it didn't work out. One House of M later Doom's scouts found Wanda and brought her to him.

Wanda wants to restore the mutant race and then be rid of this extra power. Victor promises to help her do so.



Wiccan, Wanda and Doom begin their mojo but Patriot interferes and disrupts the ceremony. Big boom and Wanda gasps that all that extra power is gone. Where did it go??



Oh, we're doing Secret Wars now? Ok, just so we're clear.

Comments

[cypherfdp]

Jesus von Doom

[proteus_lives]

DOOM does not perish your sins.

[blackruzsa]

I bless this comment in the name of the motto, the win and the awesomesauce.
Amen.

[misterbug]

"Victor von Doom's eyes are up HERE, Patriot...WAY up here."

[proteus_lives]

"DOOM is not offended, all lesser beings desire DOOM."

[icon_uk]

Is there a reason Patriot thought it was a good idea to break up a power circle involving Wanda, Billy and Doctor Doom?

I'm all for the non-powered one being able to influence events, but that's approaching the suicidal.

[proteus_lives]

"Suicidal"

That was everyone else's opinion too. But Eli threw a hissy about trusting DOOM!

[blackruzsa]

...... IT'S VICTOR THE WHITE.
This is noooot gonna go well. And SO SLOOWWWWW

[proteus_lives]

RICHARDS SHALL NOT PASS!!

[nomadicwriter]

...You know, when I first saw that cover, I dared to dream Heinberg was going to give Doom and Wanda's relationship some sort of graceful coda where she acknowledged she'd seen another side of him before breaking it off, and that was enough to make me a very happy Doom fan. Then he went and did something eleventy times more awesome instead. Feel free to keep writing Doom forever, Heinberg.

Huh, Doom's white angel outfit at the end there is a lot like his FF uniform, aside from the gold trim. Maybe this story is the origin of Doom wearing white. If we ever find out where it fits in the timeline.

Also, it amuses me that you can basically rank the power levels of all the Awesome Cosmic Forces in the Marvel-verse based on a system of whether Doom uses them to fix his scars when he inevitably steals them. For Doom, this is your average Tuesday afternoon.

[nomadicwriter]

PS, hey, Patriot, not that that isn't a perfectly justified suspicious rant, but he calls himself Doctor Doom because Von Doom is his name, not because he's devoted to making the world more doom-y. That's like you saying if Kate took over the world you'd all be living in the World of Bishop and that's proof it would be religious.

[kiev4am]

Hee. "Victor will take care of everything." OH CRAP. I really love this series. I don't mind how slowly it comes out, I'll wait. Got to say, how Eli thought the outcome of smashing a giant spell with an arrow because he didn't trust Doom would cause less damage than the Doom-spell itself, I don't know.

My favourite thing in this issue was the X-Factor bit, though. Rictor to A-List: shut the fuck up. AWESOME.

[drmcninja]

Question: When this is not Recent, can we get scans of that because its not an X-Factor comic?

I can't help but hear it

[equinox216]

"OprahVictor is here, and every other letter gets a dot! YOU get a dot, and YOU get a dot, and YOU get a dot!"

[sherkahn]

Ah, best intentions.... hope you are learning, Young Avengers.

[mullon]

"Slapping around Richards with magic counts as everything, right?"

[cainofdreaming]

No.

But making Richards slap himself with magic, now that's a totally different kettle of fish. Preferably every time he says a certain common word or phrase, like "The nucleus of the double-stemmed genus is held together by... " *SLAP!* Oh, that would be an endless comedy.

What?

[ian_karkull]

Yes, let's give the megalomaniac super-villain with delusions of grandeur access to unlimited cosmic power. What could possibly go wrong...?

[aaron_bourque]

He'll just conquer the universe again and make everything better. He's done it before.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; okay, it was an out-of-continuity story. He's still done it before.

[auggie18]

Boy, Patriot was really rocking the idiot ball in this. "Interrupting this spell might kill one of my best friends, his mom, and every former mutant on earth! BUT THEN AGAIN IT MIGHT NOT!"


I love this book. It is by far my favorite thing coming out right now, which is why I'm okay with how slowly that's happening. Everyone is snarky and awesome and it is so super easy to love.

[biod]

"Reed Richards already tried to do that".
"RICHAAAAARDS!"

And it's nice to see DOOM pull a Black Unicorn gambit on Wiccan. I wish they'd use it more.

[rainspirit]

Whatever Eli's later actions are in this book, I can't help but find it completely hilarious how hard he lampshades Doom's name. "No, he's not going to be helpful, he's Dr. DOOM." Awesome genre-savvyness there.

[aaron_bourque]

Wait. Wait wait waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait.

Wait.

Is the Victor/Wanda thing something that was previously established, or new to this story?

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; because . . . . it makes a terrifying amount of sense, while at the same time makes utterly no sense.

[nomadicwriter]

It's new to Children's Crusade; I don't think they've actually met that often in the past, though oddly enough they have a fairly civil history. Aside from their first meeting way back in Avengers #25, when Doom fakes a letter from Wanda and Pietro's "Latverian aunt" to capture the Avengers as F4-bait, the only two occasions I can think of are in Super-Villain Team-Up where Doom briefly allied with the Avengers (and then betrayed them) and Marvel Team-Up when Wanda, Spidey and Doom take on the Dark Rider together (no betrayal this time). So maybe it's not that odd that Wanda would consider him someone she could make a deal with.

But Heinberg is the first writer to take notice of how closely Wanda fits Doom's mommy issues established taste in women.

[silverzeo]

.... but the Mutants are already back, that story about Hope is still vague as it hasn't been explain that she has the phoenix force, and Magento and Quicksilver, the people who Wanda hates the most of that story arc, got their powers back in a short while, though NOBODY has brother looking into it, not even the people who trying to reverse it! Looking back now, M-Day was just a minor inconvenience in the long run.

[kirke_novak]

The question is: Is Doom a true Scotsman. What's your imput, Eli?

[kenn_el]

So is Wanda disappointed now that Victor looks less like a robot?

[proteus_lives]

Yep.

She's a proud Robosexual.

[espanolbot]

Don't worry guys, no one that shiny could possibly have bad intentions for you.

[wonderwomanhero]

Is Wanda finally gonna come back to normal?! I want her to resurrect Jean.

[aaron_bourque]

And then be cool and awesome friends like in Colleen Coover's awesome First Class back-ups!

[shadowpsykie]

*sigh* idiotic patriot is idiotic....

[aaron_bourque]

He does have a point. Granted, he took the wrong exact moment to express that point so diligently, but he does have a point.

[aaron_bourque]

Doctor Doom doesn't keep his promises.

Uh, yeah he does. He does it his way, on his own terms, and it's not a kind of word you can exactly trust, but yes he does.

The rest of that is right, but Doom keeps his promises.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; A Doom Always Pays His Debts

[shadowpsykie]

yep, has not touched a hair on Valeria's head.

[chipsnopotatoes]

I'm really liking this pairing. Very beauty and the beast. Picking mine up tomorrow...

[grazzt]

Of course, if Pietro heard you calling Wanda a beast, he'd rip your lungs out.

[valtyr]

I am hoping that Heinberg has been liaising with Hickman like he did with Peter David, and this will lead into Wanda and Doom getting hitched and Doom trending mostly good for a while. I just like it, idk.

[nomadicwriter]

I like the way you think. I do find it an interesting choice that they put Doom in Future Foundation white at the end there, since that moment would have worked just as well with him still in the green. I'm wondering if this is going to end up leading into the start of FF, though Grud knows how the timelines would fit together. I'm guessing Doom's going to have to do some reality shifting with his new powers to make it all work out.

I know there's no chance they're ever going to give Doom a full redemption, but I'd like it if they moved him into a more neutral position like Namor where he can be an ally or an enemy depending on his goals at the time. And giving him a relationship with Wanda that ties him in story-wise to both the Avengers and the X-Men seems like a great idea to me.