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

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Thor – Rebirth | Comics

In his lifetime of being Odinson, Thor has seen quite a great deal until he perished during Final Ragnarok. He was having dreams of being a god, who fought alongside Lady Sif and Warriors Three, his love and passion, journey into the stars, frequent war in Asgard and Midgard. Then he realizes, all of this was actually coming from his former human host Doctor Donald Blake.

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Thor – Rebirth | Comics

Inside the Void, Blake confronts Odinson about his legacy and asks him to return once more or not, Midgard will fall without him. As Thor made up his mind to comeback, he faces a horde of ethereal demons in his way and fights to reclaim Mjolnir, thus becoming the Thunder God once again. In Broxton, Oklahoma, Don Blake summons the lightning by hitting a cane on the ground that he found.

Using the power of mighty Mjolnir, Thor brings the citadel of Asgard on Oklahoma and then wandering around the empty halls. He emphasizes on the words of Don Blake about the Asgardians need to be found and awakened among the mortal souls. So, he flew to the Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, where he came across Iron Man.

Tony briefed Thor all about government's registration system and try to enlist him, only to be violently attacked by Thor in response who is disgusted at his actions against his fellow Avengers and creating a clone of him without his consent. In the form of a mortal named Ezra, he eventually found Heimdall, the Warriors Three in Africa battling the Ngare tribe, The Destroyer, Balder the Brave and a female Loki.

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Mortal in Metal Suit

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Marvel's God of Thunder is brought back, courtesy of writer J. Michael Straczynski (Civil War – Spider-Man, The Other – Evolve or Die) and artist Olivier Coipel (Avengers Vs. X-Men, House of M) in the new story-arc of Thor titled "Rebirth" in 2008. The story collects issues #01-06 from the third monthly ongoing volume of Thor and resurrects the hero into action again.

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Surprise of Fate!

Following the "Avengers Disassembled" crossover event, heroes were scattered and regrouped. But after "Civil War", the superhero community is broken for good and Thor has lots of reason to be upset for that. Villains like Doctor Doom, Enchantress and Hela also appeared briefly after Loki made her presence. Straczynski and Coipel proceeds with the storyline "Thunder Days" up next to explore further into the new realm of Asgard.
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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

To exact vengeance against Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom does the unthinkable!

Before he crossed paths with genius inventor Reed Richards, before he had his face violently disfigured by an unfortunate accident at State University in New York or before engaging in years of endless fighting with the popular adventurer team known as Fantastic Four by becoming Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom was a very different man.

Long before he became the tyrant ruler of Latveria, he fell in love with a beautiful young girl named Valeria from the same Romani camp. These two love-birds were having their good days together with heartfelt affection and genuine concern for each other.

She was the only support left for Victor when he lost his parents at an early stage of life and became an orphan. Victor then studied both science and dark sorcery to open gateways to another realm in hopes to free his parents. He eventually became a great inventor and got a chance of scholarship in America through his growing reputation.

When his lover made him chose between her and the newfound opportunity, Victor chose this golden opportunity over Valeria for the pursuit of knowledge that would bring him power. Years after, he is searching for the love of his life again in places with no results even though having accomplishments in the field of science or being a billionaire.

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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

Except for Valeria being in his life, he finds it all meaningless after all these years but ever since this couple parted ways before he came to America, they never contacted to each other and Victor doesn't even have the slightest idea of her current whereabouts. So he is currently seeking help from fortune tellers and gypsies everywhere to find her out.

Because, this time he is willing to give up everything he ever achieved, only to have her back in his life and he eventually does find her the first time he came looking for her, pointed out by another fortune teller he came across lately. As she was already waiting for him, Victor approaches an elderly Valeria, asking her to change his life forever.

The day of the lives of Fantastic Four was going just like any other normal one with their regular family misadventures. The Thing asks Johnny Storm to borrow some cash as he is the new Chief Financial Officer of Fantastic Four, Inc. When he stood Ben up for too many times, he decides to play prank on Johnny by hitting him up with a massive water balloon.

Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman went on a tour to a dimension filled with trinary code speaking aliens, looking for photonuclear crystals to fuel his tech for a foreseeable future. Franklin and his sister Valeria were in care of Crystal and Medusa of The Inhumans at New Attilan, Blue Area of the Moon, while their parents were away.

Upon returning, Reed and Sue bring them back through a portal and Susan takes Val to feed her. Reed goes to lab with Franklin to find out an entirely soaked Johnny looking for something to hurt Ben. Knowing it was probably Human Torch who angered Ben in the first place; Reed offers a non-lethal suggestion and tells them to meet him after suiting up.

Susan was talking to Ben in kitchen about how she is worried about a normal future for her daughter. As Val was playing with blocks, Ben tries for her to say his name but unseen to them all, Doctor Doom showed up to her, claiming her to be his goddaughter.

He compels her to say the word "Doom" and when she does, chaos breaks out at lab in form of a weird green energy beam almost immediately. Johnny couldn't stop it with his flames and Mr. Fantastic was forced to quickly transport Franklin to New Attilan for safety but the boy accidentally ended up being dragged out by netherdemons into Hell.

Defense system went down pretty fast and Johnny jumps in to save his nephew, only to get badly burnt by hellfire. When Ben mentioned of what Val said earlier, Reed watches into her eye and through it, Victor assures him to meet very soon. The world's greatest family then head over to Latveria for an unthinkable confrontation of their lives.

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The Conflict Infernal

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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable

A four issue plot with a prologue story on Victor Von Doom from the pages of Fantastic Four, "Unthinkable" is further exploring untold origin of Doom's back-story. The story kick starts from issue #67 of third volume of titular monthly ongoing comic-book series and ended up on issue #500 of original count, which came after 70th issue of this volume.

Veteran comic-book writer Mark Waid (Onslaught Saga, Original Sin) and artist Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four – Disassembled, Fantastic Four – Rising Storm) tied this story up in 2004 that would have after effects on the heroes in the long run of their lives.

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An Unthinkable Doom

This one is quite a different story-arc for the family as their arch-nemesis now relies on mystical powers beyond their understanding. Yet question remains, why Victor is looking for Valeria after all these years? What cryptic connection does it has with the Fantastic Four? What unthinkable deed he is going to do when he finds out his lost love?

A brief glimpse on New Attilan as well as other known Marvel Comics characters like Crystal, Lockjaw and Medusa making a cameo was very enjoyable. Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange appears in a guest-role as well as beings from Dark Dimension. Though the good doctor didn't hang out for long, he did provide Reed a way to salvation.
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Ultimate Fantastic Four | Comics

Under the observation of the U.S. military's General Thaddeus Ross and scientist Franklin Storm, a secret government program is running a classified project that recruited youngsters around the world with very unique potentials to train them and make them better with their abilities in a laboratory facility of Manhattan in the Baxter Building with government’s authority.

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Ultimate Fantastic Four | Comics

They have discovered a parallel dimensional space with energy resources and vast knowledge called the N-Zone. A young science prodigy named Reed Richards was enlisted in the program with Victor Van Damme, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Sue Storm. A teleportation gate for the N-Zone is build to run a teleportation test that was meant to teleport an apple to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

What they did not knew then was that, Victor Van Damme had already modified the machine’s setting coordinates that results the device to send them all in five separate locations and all of their "phase-space condition" is completely altered forever. A former Baxter Building instructor Arthur Molekevic, kidnaps Sue Storm and the rest of the group led an attack on his underground lab.

With Victor soon becoming their enemy, the remaining four labeled them as “Fantastic Four” and started exploring further with their amazing gifts. When they again entered the N-Zone, they found and battled its ruler the insectoid tyrant Nihil, eventually allied themselves up with The Ultimates, met the race of Inhumans and crossed paths with a reformed and demented Victor as Doctor Doom.

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Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Wikipedia

Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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Ultimate Fantastic Four – The Fantastic

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Doom

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Softcover)

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Hardcover)

Ultimate Fantastic Four – N-Zone

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Inhuman

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Crossover

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Frightful

Ultimate X-Men/Fantastic Four

Ultimate Fantastic Four – God War

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Devils

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Silver Surfer

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Ghosts

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Salem’s Seven

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Ultimatum – Requiem

Ultimate Fantastic Four
is a monthly ongoing series by Brian Michael Bendis (Age of Ultron, Avengers Disassembled), Mark Miller (Kick-Ass, Reborn) and Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Avengers & X-Men – Axis), that was intended to re-discover the origin of the famous team of Marvel Comics in their Earth-1610 reality. The series start publishing in 2004 from the Ultimate Marvel imprint alongside Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates ongoing titles.

The series ran for sixty issues and even won the “Scream Awards” for the best comics category. However, despite being the alternate reality counterpart of the original Fantastic Four of the Earth-616, the team has a lot of differences of their own that gives them a unique platform to stand among the crowd.
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Sunday, July 13, 2003

Doctor Strange | Comics

The man who stands between the physical world and the mystical force of darkness is none other than the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange. Destined to become the next Sorcerer Supreme after the Ancient One from his birth, Stephen Vincent Strange grew up to be a renowned yet self-centric and greedy neurosurgeon but lost the functionality of his hands in an unfortunate car accident. He then desperately looked for a cure all over the world and eventually came looking for the Ancient One in his Tibetan palace, who took him in.

Before he even became Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange was plagued with demons from his childhood by his future enemy Baron Mordo. After years of training in mystic arts under his master, Doctor Strange become an accomplished mystic consultant and came to New York, aided by Wong. Aside from fighting villains like Doctor Doom, Nightmare and Mordo, he is antagonized by the fearful Dormammu of the Dark Dimension. He was a part of the battle during the Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity War and Infinity Crusade against The Mad Titan.

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Doctor Strange | Comics

Sorcerer Supreme
Strange was very close to his sister Donna and one of her event of injury has led him to a medical student. Upon completing medical degree from Columbia University, he becomes a very renowned surgeon and all the success led him to fame, fortune and arrogance that made him impossible to bear with. By the time he lost both of his parents, he became an egotistical shallow person and was in a car accident that severely damaged the nerves of his hands. Seeing his promising career at an end before his very eyes, Stephen Strange spends up all of his fortune looking for a way to fix his hands once again.

Then he visited to Tibetan palace hearing a rumor about an aged sorcerer named the Ancient One. Unbeknownst to him that the Ancient One has also rescued him previously from Mordo’s evil plan in Stephen‘s youth. Karl Mordo was simply jealous because he knew who Stephen Strange would become in the future. Though sorcerer refused to cure his hands, Strange is offered lessons in the arts of mysticism. Deeply frustrated at this disappointment, he immediately tries to leave the place at once but got stuck because of a sudden blizzard.

During his stay, Stephen witnessed Baron Mordo, an apprentice of the Ancient One, secretly attacks his teacher using mystic arts and confronted him about these actions. Mordo silenced him with restraining spells so that Strange couldn't warn the sorcerer about his treachery. Seeing these amazing capabilities of mysticism, he took Ancient One's offer to defeat Mordo. Since he approached the sorcerer for selfless reasons, the Ancient One happily took Stephen as his new pupil and revealed that he knew about Mordo all along.

The Ancient One started training Strange and after years of exercise, he was ready for a test against Death. He successfully passed the test and received ageless life just like his mentor did 600 years ago. Strange came to know many sorcerers from around the world and returned home after seven years. In New York's Greenwich Ville, Strange established his Sanctum Sanctorum, where he served as a mystic consultant while being served by his trusty aide Wong, whose entire bloodline is dedicated to serve the Ancient One.

The Super-Hero Era was just ushered at this time with the public introduction of Fantastic Four. In the mean time, Strange was busy with enemies of supernatural like Baron Mordo, Nightmare and Thor's half-brother Loki, who made him attack the God of Thunder. Soon the tables were turned and he got back at the God of Mischief for misleading him. A young Spider-Man teamed up with Doctor Strange and upon witnessing his heroism, Strange comes to consider Spidey as a friend, resulting in many future team-ups.

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When Dormammu of the Dark Dimension sensed the Ancient One's power depleting, he decides to invade the Earth-Realm and Doctor Strange was sent by his mentor to fight this greater evil. There, he met with a mystic woman named Clea, who wanted to prevent their clash and happens to be Dormammu's niece. She believes the dimensional barriers may fall if Lord of the Dark Dimension loses but nevertheless, Strange engages his enemy and loses. As the Mindless Ones starts invading, he lends the dark lord enough power to save his realm and spare Earth as well as Clea. 

For more information on Doctor Strange comics series, you can check out the links below.

Doctor Strange (Comics) Wikipedia

Doctor Strange (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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Master of Mystic Arts

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Untold Tales of Spider-Man – Strange Encounter

Doctor Strange – Beginnings and Endings

Doctor Strange – Master of The Mystic Arts Pocket, Book 01

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 01 (Softcover)

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 01 (Hardcover)

Doctor Strange – Master of The Mystic Arts Pocket, Book 02

Essential Doctor Strange Vol 01

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 02

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 03

Doctor Strange – Master of The Mystic Arts

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 04

Essential Doctor Strange Vol 02

Doctor Strange – A Separate Reality

Marvel Masterworks – Doctor Strange Vol 05

Essential The Tomb of Dracula Vol 02

Essential Doctor Strange Vol 03

What If? Classic Vol 03

Essential Doctor Strange Vol 04

Dr. Strange Vs. Dracula – The Montesi Formula

Dr. Strange – Into The Dark Dimension

Secret Wars II Omnibus

Doctor Strange – Into Shamballa

Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom – Triumph and Torment (Softcover)

Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom – Triumph and Torment (Hardcover)

Marvel Visionaries – Roy Thomas

Acts of Vengeance Omnibus

Spider-Man’s Greatest Team-Ups

Ghost Rider – Danny Ketch Classic Vol 02

Infinity Gauntlet (Softcover)

Infinity Gauntlet (Hardcover)

Marvel Visionaries – Steve Ditko

Spider-Man/Dr. Strange – The Way To Dusty Death

Infinity War

Infinity Crusade Vol 01

Infinity Crusade Vol 02

Strange Tales Featuring Thing/Dr. Strange/Human Torch

Marvel Visionaries – John Romita Sr.

Doctor Strange – What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen?

2099 – Manifest Destiny

Daredevil Visionaries Vol 01 – Guardian Devil

Fantastic Four Vol 02 – Unthinkable

Thor – Vikings

Witches – The Gathering

House of M (Softcover)

House of M (Hardcover)

New Avengers Vol 02 – Sentry

Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Collection

Doctor Strange – The Oath

New Avengers Vol 06 – Revolution

World War Hulk (Softcover)

World War Hulk (Hardcover)

New Avengers – Illuminati

Mystic Arcana

New Avengers Vol 07 – The Trust

New Avengers – Secret Invasion, Book 01

New Avengers – Secret Invasion, Book 02

Marvel Adventures Thor featuring Captain America, Dr. Strange and Ant-Man

New Avengers – Search for the Sorcerer Supreme

Doctor Voodoo – Avenger of The Supernatural

Strange – The Doctor Is Out

Avengers – Infinity Quest (Softcover)

Avengers – Infinity Quest (Hardcover)

Infinity (Softcover)

Infinity (Hardcover)

Doctor Strange – The Way of the Weird (Softcover)

Doctor Strange – The Way of the Weird (Hardcover)

Introduced in 1963 on the 110th issue of Strange Tales monthly ongoing series from Marvel Comics, Doctor Strange is a well received fictional individual of comic books who is a very powerful sorcerer and also the mystical guardian for the universe we live in, created by the legendary Steve Ditko (Amazing Spider-Man, Beware the Creeper). Over the years of publication, he appeared on numerous comic books as well as his own monthly series and limited series. Despite his duties as the sole protector of magic, Strange also help around the super-hero community and he was a member of the New Avengers team.

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Defenders of Magic

Aside from playing the role of a savior on many crisis and significant affairs mentioned above, Doctor Strange was also operational on significant crossover events like Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Infinity, Time Runs Out and Secret Wars. A live-action portrayal of the character is going to be portrayed by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange movie set to release at the end of 2016, which will feature one of his most feared enemies; Dormammu for the first time in cinema. Not only has the actor provided motion capture performance for the role of the antagonist, Cumberbatch is about to reprise the role of Stephen Strange in the 2018's live-action film Avengers: Infinity War from Marvel Studios.
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