Doctor Doom is one of the top five comic characters of all time (the other four are Scrooge McDuck, Spider-Man, Batman and Jughead Jones) and without a doubt the best supervillain of all time. He is a warlord and a scientist and he knows magic because why the hell not. I cannot even think of a single comic book that he appears in that is bad. Every time he shows up is a wonderful delight because HE IS DOOM. So this is pretty much why I’m pretty glad that the randomizer website I used to pick out the next comic review chose this one. I plan to alternate between several things for the next many reviews to keep you all entertained and enlightened BY THE MAJESTY OF DOOM!!!!!
2099 was an idea that I believe started in 1991 by Stan Lee and John Byrne. I am sure you do not need me to introduce either of those men in a paragraph because they are incredibly popular WITH BIG NERDS. Anyway It took a year or so for the comics to finally come to fruition. The first four were Doom 2099, Ravage 2099, Spider Man 2099 and Punisher 2099. I will be reviewing all the first issues of those series and who knows maybe even talk about more of the crazy shit if I enjoy them. It took place in the FAR FLUNG FUTURE OF 2099 where all kinds of things were different. All of the heroes had died. (Although this was an alternative earth for the longest time until some random comic in 2019 made it so that it’s THE actual future of the Marvel Universe. Which I’m sure will get changed between now and the actual year 2099. Don’t sweat this stuff, just have fun with the story the people give you, man.I
I will however spend a paragraph talking about John Francis Moore the man who wrote the story for Doom 2099 #1. He worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Howard Chaykin. He wrote Superboy, X-Force, X-Factor, and X-Men 2099. I’m gonna spoil my reaction to this comic already and tell you that I liked Doom 2099 #1 quite a bit AND it made me want to read some of his X-Men comics which are 1990s X-Men comics which you all should know is not my favourite era for our merry mutants. Pat Broderick does the art and he’s worked on like literally everything. Batman, Firestorm, COPS (based on the DiC cartoon and yes I will review some issues of it), Captain Marvel, Captain Planet… The man has a good style that I very much enjoy. I’m not an art critic I just know what I like and I don’t and I like his art.
Anyway Doom 2099 #1 is actually quite good but let’s give you all a long and unwinding recap of the entire issue. Two Romanian people (the actual comic does use a word that is outdated and I won’t be using for my review but just realize I think if you try to go on twitter and yell about the use of the word that you are pretty lame. It’s in the past and we cannot change the past. We can only better the future) are selling government goods to some fat guy. They get caught by the Guardsmen who are flying around patrolling everything. So these two get on a RAD AS FUCK COOL SCI FI FUTURE BIKE and fly off.
They keep flying until they run into what seems to be DOCTOR DOOM. The DOCTOR DOOM of the past! They don’t know who he is and he is NOT happy about that. He finds out that the big wig of this time period is a cyborg man called Tyger Wylde or something like that. Doom 2099 decides to go to visit Tyger Wylde and they tussle, it does do the whole “Some random new guy dipshit character beats up a classic baddie” thing that I mentioned I do not like however they at least put some effort into Tyger Wylde’s design and it does show us that this Doom’s face is scared. Is this the real Doom from the old Marvel Universe or some new guy? This I assume is the real question this series will answer. Tiger Wylde (this is actually a fun name to say) tells his fortune teller to get rid of Doom 2099 but she does not!
In fact he wakes up in a Romanian campground. He is scarred from the scars that Tiger Wylde gave him. He joins up with these other Romanians and they go to his castle where he shows that he at least knows some of the REAL Doom’s secrets! Or IS HE THE REAL DOOM?!?! You will just have to read this series to find out. Or just read a wikipedia page you lazy bum!!!! Doom 2099 finds a jet and it takes them to a research facility where all of the stuff they need to build Doom 2099 a bigger better more cool 1990s set of armor. That’s where they go! And they do just that. The final page shows Doom screaming I AM DOOM! But is this true? Well you’re just gonna have to read issue #2.
FINAL VERDICT: This sets up a lot of things incredibly well. I quite enjoyed it. I’m intrigued by the set up. These new characters seem pretty decent thus far. One of them looks like a cool 1990s Hacker so I would like to see more of him. I have to say my look at 2099 has started on a pretty good note. I will definitely be buying more issues of this series for my collection.
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