Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon
One of several unusual one-shot pairings, Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon brings Rocket to Latveria to help Doom with a project involving travelling backwards in time to before the Big Bang. It's a bit of a screwy concept, but it does play on the idea of Doom respecting Rocket's technological know-how and needing his help to make his latest invention work. I will say, it's been a bit since I've been interested in anything Doom related (see his run as Iron Man) and this does offer some intrigue. The most obvious solution to the set up, which is really just an excuse to have fun putting these two characters together, would be the failure of the experiment. However, that's not how the comic ends.
Instead, the combined intelligence of Doom and Rocket successfully traverses time and space to answer the big question of "Why?" I've got a mixed reaction to the answer the comic gives, which itself is a paradox, especially given the ramifications it makes towards the wider Marvel Universe. Still, for a one-off issue, it has its moments.
[Marvel, $4.99]
- Title: Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon (One-shot)
- wiki: link
- Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- Artist: Will Robson
