Doom All-On-One Review
50 glorious splash pages of Doom! Marvels premier big bad stars in Doom All-On-One, a visual feast for the ages. Every Midsummer’s Eve, Doom does battle with Mephisto himself in the pits of Hell to free his mother’s soul from the Devil! Courtesy of Al Ewing, Alessandro Cappuccio, and the rest of the team, we see this titanic battle over 50 spectacular splash pages, wherein Doom faces the worst the Devil can throw at him for the most personal of victories.
Doctor Doom is a really hard character to write well. Having been around for 64 years, Doom means many things to many creatives. Is Doom a noble but arrogant leader of his nation? A power mad tyrant that will stop at nothing to get his way? A man forever trapped by a desire to destroy The Fantastic Four? In many ways he’s all three of these things and Al Ewing brings that to bear here. While yes, a 50-page splash page comic is going to get focused more for the art than the story, Ewing, who has become one of the strongest Doom writers at Marvel in recent years, has crafted a simple yet deceptively deep story about Victor Von Doom that shows off all the sides that make him one of Marvel’s most compelling characters.
Is this story essentially just Doctor Doom battling Mephisto? Yes, but the way it’s brought to life is utterly stunning. Which simply would not be possible without Alessandro Cappuccio, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Joe Caramagna. Cappuccio, having worked on Ultimate Wolverine and Moon Knight, is no stranger to showing awe-inspiring battles, but they really get to cut loose in a book like this, with stunning image after stunning image. Think of any cool thing Doctor Doom could do and it’s probably in this book. I dare not go into too much detail and spoil the amazing images of this book, every single one of which could be framed on a wall, you simply need to see them for yourself. It’s a visual feast on every level, made all the better thanks to Rachelle Rosenberg who absolutely kills it here.
For a book set in Hell, you always run the risk of things getting visually drab colour wise with constant red, orange and brown but it is a credit to Rosenberg that at no point in this book did I feel that way. The colors truly pop on every page, Doom always look spectacular in his Green and Silver, contrasted so well against everything else in the book. The warm tones of Hell contrast amazingly against the few scenes in Castle Doom which I assume deliberately use blues and blacks to further highlight the contrast, it’s just a masterclass in color use top to bottom.
At the end of the day, do you like Doctor Doom? If so, read this. This is 50 pages of Doom aura farming at his finest. It’s great, it’s gorgeous to look at, and Ewing crafts a lovely one-and-done story that gets to the heart of Doom in a way few writers do. This is genuinely just a phenomenal read for anyone who’s a fan of Marvel’s most iconic bad guy.
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