Lucas Blogs About Doctor Doom Vol. 1
At least the cover is badass! So, what's this book's deal? Well, it's a comic book written by Christopher Cantwell ( a writer and filmmaker who has the misfortune of sharing a name with a racist shithead ) and drawn by Salvador Larroca, with coloring by Guru-eFX. It's about Victor Von Doom, the arch-nemesis of the Fantastic Four. If you aren't familiar with him, he's basically an evil version of Iron Man crossed with Doctor Strange who's also the dictator of the fictional Slavic state of Latveria. So . . . a grounded, relatable protagonist for a change. Well, it's not for a lack of trying on Cantwell's part. In Doctor Doom, Volume 1: Pottersville , Doom is isolated (as usual) in Latveria, stewing over the positive media attention garnered by Reed Richards and Tony Stark's latest cooperative scientific endeavor: a green energy project that involves creating an artificial black hole on the moon. Wait—what? Don't worry, i