Doctor Doom #4 somehow manages to be an issue long philosophical debate hidden behind an issue long fight/action sequence. This issue, like the rest of the series, is a great example of how neither intelligence nor action need to be sacrificed and can coexist in this medium. Read Full Review

The story and character work remain strong, though this issue in particular has a few stumbles in terms of the overall issue structure and narrative. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom #4 is pretty much a superpowered tower-breaching story set to the tune of a challenging conversation going on between two great minds, and the issue does a tremendous job of handling both scenarios at the same time. Read Full Review

Everybody has an off day. Let's just say that the creative team had a bad day when they did this comic. It's not on the level of previous issues, so we'll brush it off and start fresh next issue. That's a really nice way of saying skip this issue. Read Full Review

A solid entry with some thought provoking material. A good read. I enjoyed it along with the art.

Prelude:
I've been enjoying Doctor Doom a lot, however last issue took a dive in quality. Let's see what Cantwell does this time.

The Good:
I like the talk between Doom and Kang.

The Latveria aspect is still interesting.

Larroca's art is good.

The Bad:
It feels a bit too full.

Conclusion:
While the pieces are good, in the assembly the issue feels bloated and that there are too many things happening at once.

A bit more confusing and slow than usual at the beginning, but picked up the pace as the time went.

As other reviews have mentioned, the God discussion is interesting but not incorporated well. The reader is left to guess the identity of the speakers for most of the conversation, which has nothing to do with most of the issue's plot. I'm actually interested the most in this little coupe that Symkaria is trying to pull to install an obscure royal descendant as a puppet government. It seems very much inspired by the recent news coming out of Venezuela.

-Mixed bag
-Pacing could slow down
-This issue felt like two in one
-Still fun

While Doctor Doom 4 is in no way a bad comic, I couldn’t fully enjoy it and here’s why. Throughout this issue, Doom and Kang have a lengthy dialogue, and Kang tries to argue Doom is god and Doom says why he isn’t. It’s an extremely well written conversation, but unfortunately, the reader didn’t know it was Kang and Doom having this conversation until the very last page. For 21 pages, the conversation was great but I had no idea who was saying it. It was extremely frustrating

There's a narrative problem here. It's pretty obvious. The conversation between MODOK and Doom does not fit with the issue it is in. It's not an uninteresting conversation either, it just does not register the way it's supposed to, leading to a less than satisfying reading experience. I hope next issue is better.

"Unrelated caption conversation on top of mostly-visual story" is a lot harder than it looks, isn't it?

I have a terrible suspicion that the entire conversation is supposed to be between Doom and MODOK (I point to the calculation-talk, the third-person references to Kang, and the smooth segue into the in-person conversation.). If so, then it's even clunkier than it seems when you assume it's Doom and Kang talking.

It was ok. What's keeping me here is my dwindling hope that the Kang subplot, at least, will bear satisfying fruit.

I was really struggling with this one, and since I don’t care about this title already I did not feel particularly charitable about that.