Showing posts with label Doctor Doom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctor Doom. Show all posts

Monday 5 April 2021

Reed Richards : Space Monkey



Writer Mark Waid sought to redefine Doctor Doom in the 2003 “Unthinkable” storyline (Vol 3 #66-70 & Vol 1 #500), 
by having him forsake technology 
and invest entirely in mysticism. 

The story took its title from the “unthinkable” act Doom had to perform to acquire this new magical might from a trio of demons: 
Killing his first love, Valeria. 

With Valeria’s flesh turned into new mystic leather armor
the story follows Doom as he imprisons Franklin Richards in Hell, captures Valeria’s namesake, and succeeds in de-powering and imprisoning the Fantastic Four. 

He subsequently attempts to prove his superiority to Reed Richards by giving him the chance to find his way out of a prison that could only be escaped through magic, 
in the belief that Richards would fail to do so.
 

With the aid of Doctor Strange, however, 
Richards learns to utilize magic on a basic level 
by accepting that he could not understand it and escapes. 

Richards proceeds to trick Doom into rejecting the demons, 
resulting in them dragging Doom to Hell.




Friday 26 March 2021

And “Doom” Spelt Backwards, is “mooD”



“ The  Magician  wishing  for  a  manifestation  of  Doctor Doom  will  not  only  invoke  Doom  directly  and verbally,  create  Doom-like  conditions  in  his  temple,  reinforce  Doom  associations  in  every gesture  and  every  article  of  furniture,  use  the  colors  and  perfumes  associated  with  Doom, etc.;  


He  will  also  banish  other  gods  verbally,  banish  them  by  removing  their  associated furnitures  and  colors  and  perfumes,  and  banish  them  in  every  other  way.”