Doctor Doom has taken over the world, and Earth's mightiest heroes have failed twice: first to stop him, and now to overthrow him. But the Fantastic Four know Doom better than anyone, which makes them ideally suited to take on Earth's new Emperor...except for the fact that he knows THEM just as well. As Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, and Sue and Johnny Storm prepare to face down Doom at the United Nations, Doom pays a secret visit to speak to the only person on Earth who holds both his favor, his respect...and his love. But can Valeria Richards change her uncle's mind? And if she fails, what will stop Doom from visiting a shocking fate on the Fant more
Ryan North has, yet again, created a powerful addition to the One World Under Doom event, but this time raising the stakes higher than I thought possible. Read Full Review
Overall, One World Under Doom #2 is a powerful and emotionally resonant issue that deepens the exploration of this fascinating dystopian world. North's writing and the art team's visuals combine to create a compelling narrative that leaves readers eagerly anticipating the next chapter. Read Full Review
One World Under Doom #2 is another excellent issue for a series that so far has exceeded expectations. It challenges the order of heroes in many ways and challenges the politics of our real world while presenting an offer some might choose if presented in reality. It's an issue that makes you think and entertains. Read Full Review
Overall, One World Under Doom #2 succeeds in further destabilizing the Marvel Universe as heroes again fail to meet the moment while the world embraces a known villain. The writing is solid (if unsettlingly relevant), and the art is impressive. Read Full Review
The interaction between Doctor Doom and Valeria is one of the sweetest things I've read in a Marvel Comic in forever, while everything unfolds according to plan for Emperor Doom. Read Full Review
One World Under Doom Issue 2 is a philosophical, sprawling story featuring a villain pre-empting every move with kindness and wisdom, not blood and violence.Some will find it offputting and strange, but exploring a new way of telling this story is exciting and fascinating. Read Full Review
Ryan Norths second chapter of his big event has gotten off to a bit of a whimper. Two issues with not a lot happening has a tendency to aggravate fans, but hopefully the story starts picking up in the next issue. Thankfully having fan favorite artist, and Fantastic Four alum, RB Silva on art duties was a boon to the issue. His work here is like a masterclass on how one must depict the FF and Doom. Read Full Review
One World Under Doom #2 delivers compelling character moments and sharp visuals but lacks the weight of a significant event issue. While the Fantastic Four's strategy plays out satisfyingly, the heroes' reluctance to believe Doom's influence still feels somewhat forced. However, the debate between Valeria and Doom offers the most engaging philosophical discussion, making this issue an intriguing, if not essential, read. Read Full Review
Where the first issue was the loud start of Marvel's latest event, One World Under Doom #2 was the calmer explanation behind Doctor Doom's takeover. Read Full Review
Silva delivers solid, beautifully detailed art throughout the issue. I love the visual style of the moments between Valeria and Doom. Read Full Review
One World Under Doom #2 continues to elevate Doctor Doom as the unstoppable leader of Earth, but it does so at the expense of the Fantastic Four or basic imagination. Ryan North uses Reed Richards to concoct the worst plan possible to stop Doom, and North's obsession with painting Doom as President Trump goes obnoxiously overboard. This event is turning out to be a bigger disappointment for the wasted potential rather than the lack of creativity. Read Full Review
Plot
Valerie Richards meets with her godfather, Doctor Doom, and asks him to explain the plan behind all this world control. They both present the pros and cons of democracy. Doom concludes with the idea that he is not a fascist, because he is not an incompetent who tries to convince everyone he is not. He believes it is the best option for the world; he is completely intoxicated with power.
But Doctor Doom's strategy is cunning. He has built free, highly efficient, and modern schools and hospitals across the planet. He has ended all wars, in other words, he is improving the planet. His most recent order is to eliminate all borders. Everyone is free to go to any country they want. He does this from the United Nations. Still, more
Good event, even though there are a couple of things that don’t seem very credible. Specifically, the heroes’ plan so far seems completely stupid. It falls into the common trap we see in this kind of trope, where heroes face an extremely intelligent villain: instead of making the villain smarter and more capable, the heroes are just made dumber and more emotional, falling into every trap. That said, I see a lot of criticism about Doom’s open-border plan—considering he’s of Romani origin an
It's pretty obvious what all of this will come down to: convince the world population that Doom was a villain all along despite doing good (that, of course, will turn out to be just a clever scheme.) Sounds familiar? Yes, the Trump allegories couldn't be more obvious, although in some cases Doom is doing the exact opposite of Trump.
The problem: the heroes look like presumptuous bigots, who just assume that Doom is the villain, solely based on their past encounters with him, despite the fact that he is doing nothing evil at all so far. Now, there's some discussion about beating him politically, but then they default to wrecking his home anyway, which makes them look like bullies and complete idiots.
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Good concept, poor execution. Doom's major initiative/panacea has been instant open borders. It's sooooooo simplistic. Say what you will about keeping out "illegal aliens," borders exist for a reason. Doom can't wipe out religious intolerance, cultural differences, centuries-long animosities, etc, by magically proclaiming "open borders." Reed's plan to "expose" Doom makes zero sense. Really? Make a two minute speech about how bad Doom is and that's going to force Doom to step down? How on Earth is that a plan? Thing turning back into Ben could've been illustrated so much more dramatically.
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