The Press Release:
Starting in February, ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM overtakes the Marvel Universe, and the first of its many tie-in series was just announced at the Women of Marvel Panel at New York Comic Con: DOOM ACADEMY!
DOOM ACADEMY will be a five-issue limited series written by author Mackenzie Cadenhead (Marvel Mutts) and drawn by Pasqual Ferry (Doctor Strange) that sees Doctor Strange’s school for young sorcerers transformed in accordance with Doom’s rule! The students of Strange Academy were instrumental in Doom’s bold reach for power in Blood Hunt, and now that he has the entire world under his mighty thumb, his influence on these breakout young Marvel heroes truly begins.
Did you think that Strange Academy would be the same in the world with Doctor Doom as Sorcerer Supreme?! NO! It is now DOOM ACADEMY! Relocated from New Orleans to Latveria, the best magic school in the world just got better (according to some). It’s the start of the second year for Strange Academy students, and you know that things will not go as planned!
“It was really fun to go through old Doom stories and pick out some random characters that exist in that world and find someone or someone’s kid who might be attending Doom Academy,” Cadenhead shared. “And because the school doesn’t exist, we got to really play with stuff. Pasqual is having a great time coming up with beautiful locales.”
DOOM ACADEMY will also feature sequences by artist João Lemos.
“In this story, Zoe ends up falling into a strange world that her friends have to help her escape from,” Cadenhead explained. “We have another artist come in to illustrate this world. João Lemos’ research on Eastern European folklore and fairytales is astounding.”
Announced earlier this week, ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM is an overarching status quo shift coming to Marvel Comics, the likes of which haven’t been seen since 2008’s Dark Reign. Spinning out of Blood Hunt where Doctor Doom manipulated Doctor Strange into passing him the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme, ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM sees Doom accomplish his ultimate goal as he uses his new power to take over the entire world. It’s a shocking and upending turn of events that will impact Marvel’s entire line of comics and see the launch of tie-in series and one-shots, collectively forming an era worthy of comic books’ greatest supervillain!
Check out the DOOM ACADEMY #1 main cover by Pablo Villalobos and stay tuned for more ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM news in the weeks ahead, including new series tie-in issue announcements. For more information, visit Marvel.com.
DOOM ACADEMY #1 (OF 5): Written by MACKENZIE CADENHEAD; Art by PASQUAL FERRY; Cover by PABLO VILLALOBOS; Variant Cover by RYAN BROWN; Virgin Variant Cover by RYAN BROWN; Variant Cover by WOO-CHUL LEE; Virgin Variant Cover by WOO-CHUL LEE
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PiercingMetal Thoughts: There have been so many awesome announcements from the Marvel Comics panels at this years New York Comic Con and I am happy to share as many of them as I can get to. Truth be told one of the series I am most excited for is the “One World Under Doom” series and the launches that will be surrounding it. Doctor Doom is a villain that surely means business and it will be quite interesting to see how he mixes things up with the group formally known as the “Strange Academy”. I am however on the fence about picking it all up or just waiting on a collected edition. You all can chime in down below with your thoughts about this one. I’m very interested in hearing what you think about it. Now if you don’t mind I’ll add a bit of a shameless plug to the mix. PiercingMetal is on point and exploring the New York Comic Con as one of the accredited press and if you want to see all of the posts that we have published so far please click NYCC 2024 to launch a new browser tab with anything relating to this years massive media event. The convention actually ends today and you out there at home will be seeing posts on each day that have been scheduled to premiere on a regular basis until we finish with them. We did a lot this year as far as I can tell. See you next time with more cool and nerdy stuff.
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