TWITTER COPS has officially passed the Cosmic Bernie as my most popular tweet ever Yeah I was watching for it, do somethin' https://t.co/I5FDl1Vxrl


While I do like Doom's canonical scarred-up face - very gothic, very Darkman - I love Kirby's idea that the disfigurement which makes Victor Von Doom don his titanium mask is a teeny tiny scar

Counterintuitively I also love the Hot Mask version, just the most I'M NOT OKAY (I PROMISE) thing ever

Question for current Marvel heads: In Fantastic Four #1, the FF's doomed mission was motivated by a desire to beat the USSR into... deep space, I guess? Anyway what's the current canonical reason Reed rushes the test flight that turned his best friend into Halloween Grimace

Maybe it was originally that they just wanted to beat the Russians into space after all - in the real world Yuri Gagarin went to space four months before FF No 1, but the origin story in that issue IS a flashback, so maybe their flight was in Christmas of 1960 or something

