Wakanda has been conquered, its Vibranium reserves plundered. Storm faces execution in the next 48 hours. And Dr. Doom stands triumphant. It will take the combined forces of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the two Black Panthers to stand against him. A war has begun that will pit the world's most relentless super villain against a collection of the world's most powerful super heroes--one that will span the globe, offering twists and turns and surprise players (hello Deadpool!) that neither side will see coming.
JONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 190 short stories, 16 short story collections, 30 graphic novels, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. His 2009-10 run as writer on the Black Panther comic formed a large chunk of the recent blockbuster film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His bestselling YA zombie series, Rot & Ruin is in development for film at Alcon Entertainment; and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, is developing Jonathan’s Joe Ledger Thrillers for TV. Jonathan writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, The Kagen the Damned Trilogy, NecroTek, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse), Mars One, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, Shadows & Verse, and others. His comics include Marvel Zombies Return, The Punisher: Naked Kills, Wolverine: Ghosts, Godzilla vs Cthulhu: Death May Die, Bad Blood and many others. Jonathan has written in many popular licensed worlds, including Hellboy, True Blood, The Wolfman, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, C.H.U.D., Diablo IV, Deadlands, World of Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Karl Kolchak, and many others. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
DOOMWAR! Eh. *shrugs* It wasn't bad, but somewhere towards the end it went off the rails and ended up all awkward. Kind of like this time I went to give my son a goodnight kiss on the cheek. I went in for the MOM-smooch, and he turned to ask me a question... We both make weird strangled cat sounds, and haven't spoken about it since. It's better that way. *shudder*
Doom backed a group of Wakandan dissidents, who have since taken over the country, and are putting Storm on trial as a traitor. T'Challa (rightful king) and his baby sister (now the Black Panther) head over to the X-Men and ask for backup. Cyclops says, no. *wink wink* As in, sorry, but we can't be seen taking sides. However, if some of these crazy mutants head over there on their own...? *nudge nudge* Well. What can I do about that? *shrugs*
Good start, right? Right. Battle, battle, battle. They take back the throne, but by that time Doom has what he came for.
Anyhoo, the X-men sort of drift off, and T'Challa calls in Reed Richards and family to help them track Doom down. But Doom is too slick for those two, and they realize that they'll have to Think Outside the Box to beat him. Battle, battle, battle. And then we get to the anti-climactic awkward ending.
On the upside, this has nice art, and lot of cool splash pages. Also, Deadpool saves the middle of the book from getting too serious, which makes him a definite bonus. The rest of it is just meh. It's pretty short, and it's not horrible? See if your library has it before you spend any money on this one.
Dr. Doom has set his sights on taking over Wakanda. He's funded dissidents to be the public face of his movement. His goal is Wakanda's vibranium and he'll do anything to get it. Meanwhile T'Challa and Suri have sought out allies to aid them in defeating Doom and those who work for him.
Doomwar...Doomwar, the title sounds awesome and the concept is awesome. The execution...not so awesome. The story starts out strong T'Challa and Suri have fled Wakanda and Storm is on trial for her life. The Panther siblings seek out the X-Men for help and though Cyclops won't officially send anyone some X-Men volunteer. They go they fight and after that everything goes into molasses mode. Slow and dull to watch. The nuance and complexity disappear in exchange for slugfests and random crossover appearances.
Doomwar sounded so good, but it unfortunately failed to meet expectations.
Maybe more a 3/3,5 stars, but seeing again in action dear old scheming, ruthless, vile, master of archvillainy Doc beating for good Black Panthers, F4, X-Men, War Machine and Deadpool, after reading Bendis' Infamous Iron Man, Volume 1: Infamous crap was just like therapeutic!
Shame on me for skipping this when it was released!
Doom kicks major butt and is the star of the show here. Doom greatness ratio: 5/5
Black Panther and Shuri talking nonstop about how Wakanda is historical and their cultural legacy is dying while hypocritically antagonising everyone they meet: 2/5
Storm being either the weakest or strongest person in the room: 2/5
Deus ex machina comic book style: 1/5
Great, deliberately cluttered art. Story needed a little more as the ending was the equivalent of walking up to the Emperor in Star Wars after all the films and pantsing him before claiming the win
Been playing catch-up with the comics lately, and just getting around to Doomwar. Looking at the cover, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a Dr. Doom vs. the X-Men story, when in fact it's a Black Panther adventure that really wanted to be a Marvel Universe crossover event when in grew up, but only ended up as a miniseries instead.
The plot: Doom arranges to oust T'Challa from the Wakandan government and steals all the vibranium. Standard muhuhaha evil plan stuff, but nicely epic, since Doom's making a serious play at world domination again. A big problem with this story is that it expects you to invest emotionally in what happens to Wakanda, which is pretty much impossible if, like most of the human race, you haven't been reading Black Panther. Also, T'Challa's final play isn't "prepared for" enough in the story, and amounts to him basically pulling a magic rabbit out of his pants that makes everything Doom's accomplished just go away.
Doom is one of many villains who's been softened and humanized over the years by repeated exposure. This has worked for some - Magneto in particular, who's a lot more interesting when he has a valid point to make. Doom, though, is just a dickwad who thinks the whole world will fall apart if he's not in charge. The way he switches back and forth from world dominating tyrant (as in this story) and misunderstood monarch with a potential for greatness (as he's sometimes portrayed in Fantastic Four) come across as manic/depressive mood swings. Now that might be a story.
Doomwar, o como salió publicado en España, La Guerra de Muerte, fue una serie limitada que fue clímax y punto y final de una confrontación que se estuvo desarrollando durante bastante tiempo en la colección de Pantera Negra entre este y el Doctor Muerte, interesado en obtener el vibranium de Wakanda por sus capacidades místicas y tecnológicas. Esta historia acaba con T'Challa y Shuri expulsados del país por obra de un golpe de estado de los tradicionalistas Desturi, financiado en secreto por el propio Muerte. Tormenta, que en aquellos momentos seguía casada con T'Challa, se va a convertir en prisionera de los Desturi, lo que serviría para que T'Challa se dirigiera a la Patrulla-X, que en aquellos momentos ya se había asentado en Utopía, y va a ser el primer motor de la historia, intentar conseguir liberar a Tormenta y restaurar el gobierno de T'Challa y Shuri sobre Wakanda, ayudados por Lobezno, Coloso y Rondador. Pero los X-Men no serán los únicos invitados en esta serie, pues ¿se puede hacer una historia sobre Muerte en la que no aparezcan los Cuatro Fantásticos? Pues no sería lo suyo, así que los Cuatro Fantásticos se unirán a T'Challa y Shuri a la hora de hacer frente a Muerte, intentando localizar el vibranium wakandiano antes de que Muerte se haga con el control de todo el mundo.
A ver, recuerdo que me este tomo me pareció un coñazo la primera vez que lo leí, y en esta segunda lectura quizá lo he disfrutado un poco más, de ahí que le haya puesto el equilibrio de las tres estrellas, también equilibrado por el dibujo de Scott Eaton, que es bastante interesante, la verdad.
Y bueno, nada del otro jueves, pero por lo menos entretenida.
Six issues? A story that could have ended in four if not five. Give Deadpool the respect he deserves and not as a comic element of no significance. Thank you.
I really appreciated this book and how much of a good read it was. The book always kept me glued to it and how it had each and every single character really interesting and how I got to see some of my favorite childhood heroes again. The book was very interesting to read and gave me a lot of creative thoughts in my head, being a superhero comic book and got to make me feel like a child again watching his favorite superhero fight a villain that is trying to either destroy the world or take over the world in some pretty evil ways. The main story I really liked, because it dealt with Dr.Doom. And the last time I have ever heard/seen that villain was when he was in the old fantastic four movie back in the 2000's. I haven't really read anything with the black panther, but this one being a whole other new black panther, wasn't honestly half bad and makes me want to read more of the black panther series and go back to when it was the original black panther in the suit and not the princess of Wakanda. Apart from the main characters, it was really great seeing a multitude of other superheroes, like the fantastic four with The Thing, The Human Torch, Invisible Girl, and Mister Fantastic. Seeing the X-men and hearing a bit about the Avengers and then seeing a cast member from the iconic series of Iron Man, Captain Rhodes. I really liked this book and wish to keep reading more books like this in the near future and this book has actually made me want to go out and read more and more books, know matter what the genre of book that it is. I recommend this book to anybody that is in the search for a good comic and wanting a good story with some of the most classic heroes ever.
I think it's the year of Doctor Doom for me, as I am currently making my way through some of his previous hits.
This one poses the question "What would a panther do to protect its den?" and plays out as a chess match between Black Panther and Doom, with the X-Men getting involved. And then, unfortunately, Deadpool comes in for some shenanigans as well.
Probably the most compelling part of this series was the Doctor Doom Purity Arch issue. To gain the favour of the panther god, Doom must be pure of heart. And what plays out is a surprisingly engaging exploration of his perspective and broader vision.
Everything Doom has done is, in a sense, in the name of a nation. Laid bare, he is just as paradoxically pure and violent as the history of the Black Panther. Black Panther stories often play with the idea of 'heavy is the head who wears the crown', and to some degree, this is the weightiness Doom himself carries. He is not exclusively a power-hungry despot as others may believe, he is a futurist, in his own words "A sorcerer". In the Marvel universe, he is probably the strongest example of a villain who follows the idea of 'means to an end'. He has evil methods, but pure intent. Doom is not pure evil, he is pure + evil.
That whole character study was pretty cool. The rest was pretty standard, but a fun contest of two of Marvel's intellectual strategists.
Maberry è Maberry e dimostra che "i fumetti non sono solo fumetti" e che i soprattutto "i supereroi non sono cose esclusivamente per bambini", concetto che dovrebbe essere abbastanza chiaro fra gli amatori del genere ma che è andato nuovamente perdendosi per quanto ormai i supereroi nello specifico siano diventati inflazionati.
Doomwar è una partita a scacchi fra l'antagonista e il mondo intero, dove etica e scelte hanno un peso specifico tale da far smuovere le fondamenta stesse delle convinzioni del lettore.
Inutile parlare del disegno perché John Romita Jr è una garanzia e Scot Eaton lo segue a ruota, rendendo l'albo non solo godevole da leggere ma anche solo da vedere: le temperature e gli studi dei colori sono esemplari, le anatomie perfette, il dinamismo dei personaggi rasenta il realismo che si raggiungerebbe solamente a livello cinematografico.
Un volume ineccepibile avvicinabile da chiunque voglia leggere una storia interessante e abbia anche solo un minimo minimo di conoscenza del mondo Marvel (in caso le didascalie spiegano e aiutano molto per chi ha qualche lacuna), non c'è bisogno di essere appassionati di mutanti o Black Panther o de I Fantastici 4 per apprezzare quello che si rivela essere uno dei thriller meglio ideati nella storia della Marvel.
Everyone's favorite Latverian despot has seen ten thousand futures, but only one in which Homo sapiens survives---with Doom at the top. And now that he's cracked the quanto-mystical (or whatever) sekrits of vibranium, he may finally bring his dreams to fruition! All he needs is to conquer the unconquered country and steal all its vibranium. Piece of cake.
Genre giant Maberry pens a superhero epic in which the fate of Wakanda and all humanity is at stake (natch)! Featuring Shuri, Storm, T'Challa, the Dora Milaje, the FF, some X-Men, War Machine, and... Deadpool?! Oh, and President Obama in an uncredited cameo!
Artwork is superb, though the covers were oddly inferior to the interiors.
And it wasn't perfect. But who cares if Vibranium is the Mary Sue of metals? Who cares if Cap'Merica, T'Challa's oldest ally (not the FF, as is implied) is an afterthought? Who cares if Doom convinces a god that he's worthy (what a great sequence, that!). Who cares if Kurt's pleadings for mercy go unheeded by the once and current Panthers as they slaughter untold countrymen?! It's shades of gray all the way down. And I ate it up.
There were some things I really dug about this. It gets really epic really fast. Right out the gate, the stage is set. We have Storm in captivity, a maniac on the Wakandan throne, Doom pulling the strings, and some sweet team up action between T’challa, Shuri and the X-Men.
Then, the story changed. All of the sudden, Doom had all the Vibranium and he was battling T’Challa and the Fantastic Four. Then they did some weird science shit, and beat him.
The story wasn’t bad, but they dramatic payoffs didn’t match the dramatic setups. For example, Storm owed Doom big time, and she did not satisfyingly get her revenge hits in.
The art was decent, if not a tad jumbled.
Overall, this is a decent story that squanders some major potential. It interacts nicely with Reginald Hudlin’s Black Panther, and it has some neat moments (though not nearly as much as it deserved, badass setup and all.)
Also, Deadpool ends up being pointless (though I laughed at some of his oneliners.)
With the anticipation for the Cinematic release of "Avengers Doomsday" next year I'm currently battling my way through as many Doom stories as I can. Although not perfect, this might be one of the strongest so far.
With a task of overthrowing an entire nation to steal their Vibranium and become the ultimate being, Doom poses as a real threat to not only Wakanda but the entire world. There is some killer dialogue from Doom in particular throughout. Every sentence is a powerfully structured foundation of hell in Earth. Doom is terrifying.
A real joy to see T'Challa and Shuri at the front of the story with wonderful additions from the X-Men and The Fantastic Four. I would LOVE to see some of this used as inspiration for Avengers Doomsday 🤞♥️
This is a hard one to rate. First of all, it's honestly not very good. Shuri has no problem killing anyone in her way, and then suddenly pulls a 180 and says that killing is something that only savages do. Nobody really gets enough "screen time" to really shine, so there are no stand out characters. The only reason I am giving this three stars is because of the short scene between Doom and Bast. We get to see Doom's motivations and realize that he has his own sense of honor and even purity (as warped as it is).
I hate to admit it but I liked this better than I thought I would. Usually invasion storylines are so boring and its not a must everyday an African nation is getting invaded abeg. Anyway this shoed how Shuri is still a badass I love her so much but also I side eyed her behavior a lot especially how she was willing to throw away Dora Milajes' lives. Their collaboration with T'challa was also good to see. Also Doom was such a worthy villain he really gave them a run for their vibranium (lol) and his one liners were epic and the dialogue was so good. Highly recommend.
This is almost a forgettable story. It had potential. It had Dr. Doom as the main villain and it involved the X-Men, that is almost always a recipe for a main event comic. However, it wasn't and maybe the timing was just wrong.
If this was a Black Panter with the gravitas that Chadwick Boseman pulled off in his take of the Wakandan king, then it would have been a memorable story of a war between kings. Sadly, it was not, and better acclaimed T'Challa stories were in the horizon.
This should be better than it is; it's a huge story with a huge cast and it details Marvel Universe shaking events. But it never draws the reader in....it's a little too wordy and we never see much of the action....we're just told about it. It's very disappointing.
Good artwork, particularly the two page panels. Very epic story. The recaps are nice if you have trouble following the action. The ending is a little abrupt and disappointing but the inclusion of politics and conflicts, such as economy vs. freedom, are a really nice inclusion.
I wonder if I would have enjoyed this more if I had read it during the era when it originally came out. This has the potential to be a very powerful story, but I had a hard time staying interested.
Really loved this cross-team team up, and seeing what T'Challa (and Doom) were planning and counter-planning against each other! TW for death, threats of death, guns, violence, riots, death sentences, false imprisonment, overtaking of a country.
i'm sorry but the art was just SO bad. nonstop examples of a male artist not understanding how to draw female characters. it was so distractingly bad that it ruined a couple of 2-page spreads that would've been pretty cool otherwise. :/