Feels like it's been one person after another wanting something, all week long. Making it difficult to make any progress on anything, or even keep track of what I need to be making progress on.
Reed is getting nowhere trying to understand magic in his attempts to prepare for Doom's next move. Between Cummings drawing the costumes as fitting loosing - the fabric actually bunches in places! - the lines either Cummings or Faucher add to his face, and the fact Arbutov colors two-thirds of Reed's hair white, the man is showing his age. Which at least plays to the notion he's been grinding himself to dust trying to understand magic for 6 months, and failing utterly.
Sue has an idea! Speak with a physicist who also knows magic. Preferably one with a special sword that cuts through anything. But the Black Knight melted the sword down to make his special chair, which I vaguely remember from that mini-series I bought 2 years ago. And the formula he presents Reed, that allegedly merges physics and magic, is total junk. Oh Dane, I thought you got off the booze when you stopped using the sword that messed with your head.
Still, Dane Whitman wants to help, and sends his, Reed and Sue's spirits back to World War I, the last time there was a chance to locate a different magic sword. This one cut through anything, up to and including time, so the cuts never healed. Which doesn't sound like the sort of thing the FF would want to use, a sword that permanently damages time, but what the hell. Sue puts her archaeology degree to use and figures out where the sword is buried.
At which point it turns out Doom was possessing Whitman the entire time - via the magic chair - to use Sue to find the sword so he could destroy it as a possible threat. That's bad, but the formula Dane gave them was actually hiding a message in the errors. A spell Reed is just able to use so he and Sue escape - to Times Square, where Doom's conquest of the world is already being announced. Gotta, while the Cloak of Levitation doesn't look too bad on Doom (though the red clashes with the green of his tunic), the cross-looking thing on his chest is not an improvement. Makes him look like a knight on his way to the Crusades. As though Doom would ever stoop to trudging through deserts for such a menial result!
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It does feel a bit weird that everyone's worried about Doom using magic now. It's been a part of his character for decades. There was a whole chunk of the Wieringo FF run about it! Not to mention the Doom/Strange shared history.
All I can figure, it's because this time he's the Sorcerer Supreme, which I assume is being treated like a Super Saiyan transformation for magicians. I didn't think that was how it worked with Strange, so much as the title spoke to his wisdom and knowledge of magic, but who knows.
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