Doomwar

  Doctor Doom unleashes a war on multiple fronts against the tiny, but powerful nation of Wakanda. But the despot can't just openly invade the homeland of the Black Panther, least he have to face an onslaught of UN forces, not to mention the superhero community. So, Doom secretly funds a coup which grants him diplomatic immunity in order for the leader of Latveria to legally claim all of Wakanda's remaining resources of vibranium.

    Since the government of Wakanda changed hands under a peaceful coup, the United Nations has tied the hands of former King T'Challa and his sister, Shuri, the current Black Panther. Even the superhero community cannot get involved to save Storm, accused of witchcraft, from the death penalty, without repercussions.
   
    Secretly, a small handful of X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and even the Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool come to the assistance of the deposed royal family in an attempt to wrestle the massive stockpile of vibranium weapons that Doom has amassed. But since T'Challa has been soundly defeated by Doctor Doom time and time again using technology, the former Black Panther may have to use magic infused physics to free his people and reclaim the throne of Wakanda.

     This is my second foray into works by the team of Jonathan Mayberry and Scot Eaton (The zombie epic Punisher Vs. the Marvel Universe was my first.) Unfortunately, I was not such a fan of this work as I was the apocalyptic thriller. The biggest reason for this is that in the first two issues, there is so much going on. There's minimal panelling, so I couldn't follow where the art was flowing. It also didn't follow any sort of set pattern. Sometimes it would go straight across the page. Sometimes it would go counterclockwise and the next would be clockwise. Then vice-versa a few pages later. It was very confusing. 

    There were only 6 issues in this miniseries. So, I'm wondering if there were originally supposed to be 7 or 8 but due to time or economics, the series was reduced to a half-dozen. Thus in order to not really lose any of the story, Mayberry and Eaton just crammed everything in those first couple of issues. I really think this is the case as the last 4 issues really flowed a lot better.

    The art itself was quite good. It was as outstanding as the 'Punisher Vs.' mini. In fact, there were some awesome double full-page spread scenes that featured Doctor Doom's face that were even better than that first series. Sadly, the covers by John Romita Jr. were not so good. They looked amateurish and didn't properly reflect his talent.

   Worth Consuming

   Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.