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One World Under Doom
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Expected 10 Feb 26Doctor Doom is already Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme — now he declares himself Emperor of the World!
Six months ago, Victor Von Doom saved the world from vampires by assuming the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme — then disappeared behind Latveria’s closed borders. But his absence was merely the calm before the storm — a storm that has now arrived. The world wakes up to a new reality: Doom has magically taken over every broadcast medium on Earth and declared himself the ruler of the planet under the flag of a new United Latveria! And shockingly, impossibly, all global leaders seem to be going along with it. Luckily, whether it’s mind control or Doombots, whatever’s affecting them hasn’t affected Earth’s heroes — so they quickly form a strike team to stop Doom’s machinations. But nothing will go as expected for the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and their allies! What happens when some begin to welcome their new Emperor with open arms, clamoring for ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM?
COLLECTING: One World Under Doom (2024) #1-9
Six months ago, Victor Von Doom saved the world from vampires by assuming the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme — then disappeared behind Latveria’s closed borders. But his absence was merely the calm before the storm — a storm that has now arrived. The world wakes up to a new reality: Doom has magically taken over every broadcast medium on Earth and declared himself the ruler of the planet under the flag of a new United Latveria! And shockingly, impossibly, all global leaders seem to be going along with it. Luckily, whether it’s mind control or Doombots, whatever’s affecting them hasn’t affected Earth’s heroes — so they quickly form a strike team to stop Doom’s machinations. But nothing will go as expected for the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and their allies! What happens when some begin to welcome their new Emperor with open arms, clamoring for ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM?
COLLECTING: One World Under Doom (2024) #1-9
224 pages, Paperback
Expected publication February 10, 2026
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About the author
Ryan North
536 books1,602 followersHi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
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November 28, 2025
Super solid art and even had me at some points thinking Doom was the man 😭
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December 15, 2025The best Marvel event in years – possibly even the best a Marvel event can be – but also one brought low as much by its writer's strengths as his limitations. Ryan North, after all, defaults to writing superhero stories as a subset of problem-solving, a seemingly impossible tangle resolved by creative thinking. Which I love! But it means that in a story about Doctor Doom taking over the world, he approaches it from Doom's perspective, remembering that, at his best, Doom isn't just a vainglorious tyrant, but a very smart man who, albeit in a sometimes warped fashion, genuinely cares for his subjects. So when he announces that the world's rulers have all ceded power to him, his first edicts are free universal healthcare and free higher education, everywhere. This being the case, it's no wonder that lots of people think, all things considered, that this new world order might not be such a bad thing. And any satirical implications of Americans wearing green baseball caps and putting pro-Doom placards on their lawns rather collapse, because it's much more understandable than the behaviour of their real-world equivalents, doing likewise for a ruler who is just a vainglorious tyrant, pigshit thick to boot, and actively making their lives worse.
The main hold-outs, of course, are the heroes, convinced that Doom is up to his usual tricks, has captured the leaders and replaced them with robots or something. But, especially given he's now Sorcerer Supreme, Doom found a much better solution for that problem too, and for the heroes' attempts to unseat him. Which ultimately means that North writes himself into a corner, and unless he's going to leave Earth 616 in this set-up, then has to pull a really unconvincing, screeching handbrake turn of a twist to set up the obligatory big showdown. In fairness, he does at least get the satire back on track in its wake, by remembering that old mainstay resolution 'the heroes reveal the awful secret to the world' is, given real world developments, off the table for the foreseeable future if you want your story taken at all seriously. And the final issue comes off much better than it has any right to given it's both a deus ex machina and a power of love ending. The cosmic shores on which it fetches up also allow the art from RB Silva and David Curiel to come into its own, having otherwise tended a little too luminous on the heroes in particular (though I can't deny it was a buzz seeing Squirrel Girl and Brain Drain rendered so epically, and I hope they keep getting invites to the big crossovers). But despite the many fine touches in its execution, ultimately it convinced me less than the resolution of a very similar core story in 1987's Emperor Doom which, though overall not written half so well, caught something fundamentally true at the end, where Doom is poised to destroy his enemies and cement his dominion – then doesn't press the button, because the sheer faff of ruling the world has been getting him down, and he's realised he'd much rather rage from the margins.
The main hold-outs, of course, are the heroes, convinced that Doom is up to his usual tricks, has captured the leaders and replaced them with robots or something. But, especially given he's now Sorcerer Supreme, Doom found a much better solution for that problem too, and for the heroes' attempts to unseat him. Which ultimately means that North writes himself into a corner, and unless he's going to leave Earth 616 in this set-up, then has to pull a really unconvincing, screeching handbrake turn of a twist to set up the obligatory big showdown. In fairness, he does at least get the satire back on track in its wake, by remembering that old mainstay resolution 'the heroes reveal the awful secret to the world' is, given real world developments, off the table for the foreseeable future if you want your story taken at all seriously. And the final issue comes off much better than it has any right to given it's both a deus ex machina and a power of love ending. The cosmic shores on which it fetches up also allow the art from RB Silva and David Curiel to come into its own, having otherwise tended a little too luminous on the heroes in particular (though I can't deny it was a buzz seeing Squirrel Girl and Brain Drain rendered so epically, and I hope they keep getting invites to the big crossovers). But despite the many fine touches in its execution, ultimately it convinced me less than the resolution of a very similar core story in 1987's Emperor Doom which, though overall not written half so well, caught something fundamentally true at the end, where Doom is poised to destroy his enemies and cement his dominion – then doesn't press the button, because the sheer faff of ruling the world has been getting him down, and he's realised he'd much rather rage from the margins.
Review of advance copy
VELMI rozporuplné... Na jednu stranu tu máme solidní event s řadou pozitiv. Ryan North svým postavám víceméně rozumí a Doom naprosto v pohodě obstojí jako padouch pro celej Marvel včetně obrovskýho finálního bossfightu.
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Jenže... je to event. Od začátku víte, že tady je 9 sešitů, kdy Doom ovládne svět a na konci se všechno musí vrátit do normálu. A to OWUDu strašně škodí a North se až moc drží osvědčené šablobky. V první půlce Doom staví školy, zavádí zdravotní péči zdarma a objektivně zlepšuje svět. Všichni hrdinové ale musí mít shodný postoj "Doom je ošklivák, pojďme ho sejmout." Naprosto chápu odboj u Hydra Capa v Secret Empire, ale tady to šustí papírem. a Starkovým egem. No a v druhé půlce musí ze skříně padat kostlivci, aby se to mohlo vyřešit, žejo... A to je fakt škoda.
Dalším problémem jsou tie-iny. Hlavní série sice funguje +- samostatně, ale dost věcí se řeší mimo záběr a postavy občas vyskakují jako deus ex machiny. Minimálně ta FF od Northa bude nutnost, ale ještě jsem ji nečetl.
Mini-spoilery:
Jenže... je to event. Od začátku víte, že tady je 9 sešitů, kdy Doom ovládne svět a na konci se všechno musí vrátit do normálu. A to OWUDu strašně škodí a North se až moc drží osvědčené šablobky. V první půlce Doom staví školy, zavádí zdravotní péči zdarma a objektivně zlepšuje svět. Všichni hrdinové ale musí mít shodný postoj "Doom je ošklivák, pojďme ho sejmout." Naprosto chápu odboj u Hydra Capa v Secret Empire, ale tady to šustí papírem. a Starkovým egem. No a v druhé půlce musí ze skříně padat kostlivci, aby se to mohlo vyřešit, žejo... A to je fakt škoda.
Dalším problémem jsou tie-iny. Hlavní série sice funguje +- samostatně, ale dost věcí se řeší mimo záběr a postavy občas vyskakují jako deus ex machiny. Minimálně ta FF od Northa bude nutnost, ale ještě jsem ji nečetl.
November 22, 2025
Dr. Doom's been hiding out under a dome in Latveria since he became the Sorcerer Supreme. Now he's returned and taken over the world. I like how this isn't just a big battle between heroes. He's convinced a bunch of normal people that they are better off under his rule and some things actually do seem better. Of course, all is not as it seems. R.B. Silva's art is good but it can be obscured by too many effects. All in all though, a good event.
November 25, 2025
I think a strong ending featuring strong characterization of Doom saved this one; unfortunately, I do think the story chickened out a bit at dealing with the impact that Doom had on the Earth. The "Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" twist was inevitable, but Doom's reaction to everyone finding out was one of guilt rather than communicating what that story was -- that our world is propped up by the suffering of others anyway.
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January 4, 2026Read as single issues.
Trying to do the same root commentary as Secret Empire. A bit better, though sometimes in a large, over-explained brawl I start to get the same feeling as when I question the point of a Let's Play video on youtube.
"They can attack the man, but his ideas are out there and they're not going anywhere."
Has some fun with Marvel magic-verse too, but I wonder if Reed's science-magic will go anywhere.
Trying to do the same root commentary as Secret Empire. A bit better, though sometimes in a large, over-explained brawl I start to get the same feeling as when I question the point of a Let's Play video on youtube.
"They can attack the man, but his ideas are out there and they're not going anywhere."
Has some fun with Marvel magic-verse too, but I wonder if Reed's science-magic will go anywhere.
November 28, 2025
Doom will save us all... This run built up over time and the last half was outstanding. Read as individual comics, ratings below:
#1= 4 stars
#2= 3.5 stars
#3= 3.5 stars
#4= 3 stars
#5= 4.5 stars
#6= 4.5 stars
#7= 4.5 stars
#8= 5 stars
#9= 4.5 stars
Overall rating of 4.5 stars
#1= 4 stars
#2= 3.5 stars
#3= 3.5 stars
#4= 3 stars
#5= 4.5 stars
#6= 4.5 stars
#7= 4.5 stars
#8= 5 stars
#9= 4.5 stars
Overall rating of 4.5 stars
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December 30, 2025(read all the chapters separately)
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