New Avengers #24: "The Cabal"
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"If you look at your big time villains in the Marvel Universe; your Dooms, your Magnetos and even Galactus, someone will always write a redemptive story for that character. Someone will always write the story where the guy goes over the cliff and kills an entire town. It just depends on what your take on the character is. My take is that Doom is incredibly egocentric and an inherently flawed megalomaniac, but there's a bit of nobility there and for some reason he cares for certain things a whole lot." - Jonathan Hickman
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:22 am (UTC)Who woulda thunk it?
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:23 am (UTC)Doom searches for data and resources, using the Mad Thinker and other minds for help, investigating worlds actively in order to figure out what he can about the cause, then taps the Molecule Man to help do it.
Yea, I know which approach I think is more likely to work.
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:27 am (UTC)This is the one sort of thing that would get someone such as he involved. And I love that of everyone, Doom is the one person who has been quietly working on an actual solution.
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Date: 2014-10-15 01:51 pm (UTC)He got atomized by Sentry in Dark Avengers.
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:41 am (UTC)It's like, fortified chamber, stuff of multiversal miners, seething energies.. and something you'd pick up in the back of a Staples.
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:48 am (UTC)He wouldn't want a throne, or a bench, or something. He'd just want a comfortable but not too comfortable work chair. Owen craves normality, as usually written. It's actually a very nice touch, IMO.
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:58 am (UTC)Epic burn right there. Seriously, that scene as a whole made me so happy, especially with the knowledge that Doom actually was working on a way to stop the incursions while Namor wasted his time with Thanos and Friends. Hell, I don't even care that Doom may start coming off a bit Sue-ish if he ends up stopping it by himself, at least someone's actually doing SOMETHING about it in this story. It really sucks that he wasn't brought in sooner.
I'm just hoping Hickman doesn't ruin it somehow, which is very likely to happen given what's happened so far in this series.
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Date: 2014-10-15 07:03 pm (UTC)Huh. I wonder what Diablo and the Wizard are up to these days.
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:00 am (UTC)Doom points out that Reed, Tony, etc aren't practical. Except during CIVIL WAR of course.
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:10 am (UTC)...Not really Doom's best moment.
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:26 am (UTC)Doom comes up with solutions by simply being... practical. I mean, unless there's some reason Reed etc. couldn't have done this... (up to and including asking Molecule Man).
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Date: 2014-10-15 07:53 am (UTC)Seriously, I can't think up a single solitary reason in-universe for why the Illuminati would immediately resort to blowing up a planet when a solution as (relatively) simple as this was possible the entire time. Showing Doom do it here only makes the whole thing even more blatantly stupid.
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Date: 2014-10-15 08:13 am (UTC)He's a schemer, not a bruiser. Like Doom. So it just seems way out of character. Not that Hickman's Thanos hasn't been like that all along.
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:15 pm (UTC)Still, the overall plot doesn't impress me. The "hard decisions to prevent multiversal catastrophe" thing was done much better in Worm.
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Date: 2014-10-15 08:47 pm (UTC)Perhaps the single most pointless question in the entire omniverse... this IS Doom, after all.
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Date: 2014-10-16 11:20 am (UTC)And despite kind of despising almost everything else I've seen from this series...I like this.