It’s Doctor Doom’s multiverse of madness, and we’re all just living in it

polygon.com:

There are some ideas in comics that are as original as they are inevitable. When Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham introduced the Council of Reeds, an interdimensional body composed entirely of different Mister Fantastics, it was both a surprise and retrospectively obvious. Of course the super-intelligent science god Reed Richards would seek peer cooperation with his own multiversal selves.

In his Avengers, Jason Aaron has riffed mightily on that utterly comic book idea of cooperation between parallel selves, first with the punnilly named Council of Red, an interdimensional alliance of Mephistos. And this week, with artists Jim Towe and Guru-eFX, Aaron introduces another. The Council of Doom? Perish the thought — Doctor Doom has no peers, be they man or god.

No, this is a Doom fierce enough to subjugate other Dooms. A Doom who uses brainwashed parallel Dooms instead of Doombots. Doom Above All Dooms. The Doom of Dooms. Surprising? Yes. But. on the other hand, what could be more obvious than a Doom who refuses to settle for ruling Latveria, or the world, or the universe, and comes gunning for the multiverse itself?

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Aaron’s Avengers throws ideas at the wall with a speed that is often dizzying, but I am only human! You show me a the Doom Above All Dooms, whose base is a freakin’ Ego the Living