Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ciaraldi From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Secret Wars #10 (Spoiler) Message-ID: <2055@rochester.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 22:00:59 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2055 Posted: Wed Oct 10 22:00:59 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:37:04 EDT Sender: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 46 From: Mike CiaraldiAfter all the complaining everyone has been doing about this series, what do folks think of the new issue? I thought Shooter did a good job of capturing the "real" Dr. Doom, with his combination of nobility and megalomania. Imagine getting blasted so badly that one leg and arm are gone, then having half your body dissected while you are still alive, and still managing to defeat the being whom you are fighting! Doom's last futile effort to enlist the aid of the heroes showed him as his usual sneaky self, and his unmasking at the end shows his willingness to change himself as circumstances change. Some loose ends: 1) Remember that in our time frame Dr. Doom is dead. At least the FF think so, although the comics reader strongly suspects that Doom has actually taken over the body of an innocent bystander. When the Secret Wars started, one of the things that was going to be covered was Doom's reaction to finding out that the FF think he is dead. Unless that is coming up, it seems to have been neglected. It is a major continuity problem, though. 2) Whenever Byrne draws Doom, he always shows scars visible through the eye slits. Most other artists don't. It has been suggested that Doom's only disfigurement is a tiny scar which is major only to his vanity. Remember that the FF saw him unmasked in #199, I think, when he was on the verge of defeating them, but his face was never shown. However, he DID put the red-hot iron mask onto his own face in his origin story, so SOMETHING must have happened. Predictions? 3) Aside from the Secret Wars series, has Galactus' "homeworld" (space ship) ever been shown to be so large, i.e. many times greater than an Earth-type planet? In the past it was large, but still on a more-or-less human scale. 4) So, Doom changes his armor to match the toy figure, eh? Oh well..... Mike Ciaraldi ciaraldi@rochester seismo!rochester!ciaraldi