The Hanged Man

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- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

Reed and Victor fighting over the "Optimisation of World History"

And conveniently leaving Doom's Romani heritage and the tragic fates if his parents, which he himself witnessed, out of the summary at the beginning.

It was just a bad dream after all

Have you heard about that terrible story in the Good Omens finale? Ugh, I know, right? Scary.

I promise this is still a Stephen blog but bear with me!! I'll get to our wizard.

So Frank Tieri simply NAILED yet another bang for me and the 3 Doom 2099 fans out there.

Timeline here is a little weird with the 2099 main universe getting a few soft resets. plus that's definitely a different future from the og 2099, but it's a self-contained story that works (AND FIXES) most of my issues with OWUD.

In this timeline, Sorcerer Supreme Doom, refusing to accept his defeat at the end of the event (STEPHEN WITH HIS ASGARDIAN OUTFIT, RESPECTING THE ACTUAL CONTINUITY??? IN OUR 2026?? WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE), unleashed a spell so powerful that eliminated every living being on the Earth. Now he has to live with the consequences of this atrocity. Better yet, he wants to fix it.

After a wonderful and emotional plot twist caused by his own guilt and repressed feelings, he restores his time machine with Ultron's "help", but at the same, he gets stuck in the timestream.

What does that mean? That means... (as long as the book does well) that we will definitely have more stories of his adventures across the Marvel Universe. And if you take a closer look, you'll see Stephen there as well. So now I'm just manifesting with all my mystic might a new follow-up one-shot (or a mini-series, I'll take anything) exploring said adventures. More importantly, manifesting Stephen.

Because yeah, while I absolutely adore 616!Victor, I'm actually very exhausted of the constant mischaracterization to force the Doomtler agenda while also ignoring his past as a victim of racism, persecution and overall humanization as the complex villain that he is. One panel acknowledging that he cares for Latverians and it's already better than the main OWUD storyline.

And the possibility that I see my favorite version of Doom interacting with Stephen? Oh... That day, my friends... That day will be my last in this mortal flesh because I'll ascend.

Anyway, go support Frank Tieri, Jung-Geun Yoon, Von Randal, Andrew Dalhouse, Travis Lanham, and ESPECIALLY the editors Lauren Amaro and Mark Paniccia, who are under fire because of Disney's greed.

The total wreck of a man who will of course pretend he isn't sentimental while also favoring the one doombot meant to represent Valeria (and his guilt), then said Doombot betraying him for it because he can't bring himself to embrace emotions and acknowledge that he should care about his own creations... Oh, that's peak. That's so peak.

Such a tragic character and yet beautifully written, the kind of angst that I absolutely adore.