(W) Benjamin Percy, Phillip Kennedy Johnson (A) Carlos Magno, Robert Gill, Justin Mason
DUNGEON CRAWLERS! As warring global factions struggle for control of Latveria, an attack by Red Hulk traps them all together in Doom’s most secret, most forbidden dungeons. Desperately searching for a path to the surface, they discover horrors Doom never intended to be found: The Eye of Khonshu. The Skull-Shaped Herb. The Hammer of Treachery. And a mutant creature so dangerous, even Charles Xavier knew it could never be set free. These forbidden discoveries breed horrors that poison alliances, pollute bodies and souls and threaten to release powers that even DOOM knew must always be hidden.
In the aftermath of One World Under Doom, with Doom’s castle empty and masterless, the superpowers of the world race to claim and control the untold power and technology that await inside. But when an explosion sends them all plummeting into a dungeon labyrinth that none of them knew was there, what began as an arms race becomes a terrifying game of survival. Who, if any, will survive? And what horrors lie within the Dungeons of Doom? Dungeons of Doom #1 is the follow up to the recent event “One World Under Doom” and seems to be leading in to whatever comes next.
Doom is gone and Latveria is now a battlefield where different groups are all vying not just for its future, but the hoard of treasure Doom has hidden away over the years. There’s the obvious things like money but he also had for advanced technology and mystic items. These are all up for groups.
Dungeons of Doom #1 does an excellent job of really showing off the chaotic reality that the absence of Doom has left. Latveria is a mess with local groups competing with American interests as well as Hydra, all for the prize(s). And the action depicting it all is just fun and crazy like an off the rails G.I. JOE story.
And “off the rails” is key. Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Benjamin Percy really use that all to set up what is at its core, a dungeon crawl. Three groups are all dumped in mysterious spaces and must navigate to riches. There’s traps, there’s threats, not all of them will make it. Hell, there’s even magical items! It’s hard to read Dungeons of Doom #1 and not immediately see the Dungeons & Dragons root of it all. And with that, it feels like it has the potential to be a hell of a lot of fun.
There’s a massive amount of artists involved including Justin Mason, Robert Gill, Carlos Magno, George Jeanty, and Karl Story with color by Guru-eFX and lettering by Travis Lanham. The art is solid overall and with so many artists, I still didn’t see much variation in the art. It didn’t become a distraction and really with the chaos and the story itself, it wasn’t noticeable for me. The characters look great, the action is over the top, and each dungeon location is interesting packed with detail that’ll get you to linger on pages and try to figure everything out.
Dungeons of Doom #1 feels like a bridge from the previous event to what’s coming next and it does it in a package that feels a bit new and fresh for superhero comics. Even if you’re not interested in the meta story, it’s a fun comic you can pick up and just enjoy the chaotic nature of it all. Hopefully it keeps it up and becomes the nice surprise that comes out of “One World Under Doom.”
Story: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Benjamin Percy Art: Justin Mason, Robert Gill, Carlos Magno, George Jeanty, Karl Story Color: Guru-eFX Letterer: Travis Lanham Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy
Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
(W) Benjamin Percy, Phillip Kennedy Johnson (A) Carlos Magno, Robert Gill, Justin Mason, Georges Jeanty, Karl Story
In the aftermath of ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM, with Doom’s castle empty and masterless, the superpowers of the world race to claim and control the untold power and technology that await inside. But when an explosion sends them all plummeting into a dungeon labyrinth that none of them knew was there, what began as an arms race becomes a terrifying game of survival. Who, if any, will survive? And what horrors lie within the DUNGEONS OF DOOM?
(W) Jed MacKay (A) Domenico Carbone (C) Rachelle Rosenberg (L) Cory Petit (CA) Davide Paratore (VCA) Juan Frigeri and Erick Arciniega, Justin Mason, Lucio Parrillo
When THE WRECKER is targeted by the literal ghosts of his past, he comes to the Midnight Mission for help! Not everyone is convinced he deserves their assistance. LEGACY #254
(W) Jed MacKay (A) Domenico Carbone (C) Rachelle Rosenberg (L) Cory Petit (CA) Davide Paratore (VCA) Juan Frigeri and Erick Arciniega, Justin Mason, Lucio Parrillo
When THE WRECKER is targeted by the literal ghosts of his past, he comes to the Midnight Mission for help! Not everyone is convinced he deserves their assistance. LEGACY #254
The King in Black is back! Knull made his long-dreaded return last month in Venom #250 and will headline his first-ever solo series this January, each paving the way for “Queen in Black,” an epic symbiote event coming next year. To celebrate the iconic supervillain’s resurgence, a new collection of Knullified Variant Covers will hit stands in December. Drawn by today’s leading artists, these new pieces twist your favorite heroes into dark versions of the God of Symbiotes!
Emerging from the void during Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman’s seminal run, Knull became the comic book supervillain of the decade, headlining the 2020 crossover, King in Black. It took the combined might of Marvel’s greatest heroes to stop him and his symbiote army from conquering Earth. Now, he begins a new reign of terror, but first, he must reclaim his throne from a startling usurper—Hela, the newly proclaimed QUEEN IN BLACK! Follow his path of destruction to amass new power in Knull, a five-issue limited series by current Venom scribe Al Ewing, writer Tom Waltz, and symbiote superstar Juanan Ramirez.
Check out 19 of the 20 Knullified Variant Covers and preorder them along with Knull #1 at your local comic shop today!
DOCTOR STRANGE #1 KNULLIFIED VARIANT COVER BY MATEUS MANHANINI – 75960621125800171
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #41 KNULLIFIED VARIANT COVER BY FRANCESCO MANNA – 75960620483004121
ALL-NEW SPIDER-GWEN: THE GHOST-SPIDER #5 KNULLIFIED VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA – 75960621343600531
At last year’s Next Big Thing Panel during New York Comic Con, Marvel Comics officially announced One World Under Doom. This year, learn about its mysterious aftermath—Dungeons of Doom!
Launching in January, Dungeons of Doom will be written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Benjamin Percy with art by Carlos Magno, Robert Gill, Justin Mason, and Georges Jeanty. Follow this all-star group of creators into the darkest depths of Latveria, for even when Doom falls, his power remains! Across three pulse-pounding issues, meet a new cast of characters from various corners of the Marvel Universe as they seek to plunder Doom’s unmatched armory, only to learn the hard way that even in absence, Doom leaves nothing unattended, especially his greatest secrets….
ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM’S EPIC AFTERMATH!
With Doom’s castle empty and masterless, the superpowers of the world race to claim and control the untold power and technology that await inside. But when an explosion sends them all plummeting into a dungeon labyrinth that none of them knew was there, what began as an arms race becomes a terrifying game of survival. Who, if any, will survive? And what horrors lie within the DUNGEONS OF DOOM?
Check out the cover by Leinil Francis Yu and stay tuned for more news about the series in the months ahead.
Everybody is coming to the 2025 Baltimore Comic-Con on October 17-19 at the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center. Baltimore Comic-Con has announced the addition of Arthur Adams, Viktor Farro, Nikkol Jelenic, Justin Mason, Joe Pruett, and Peter Tomasi to the 2025 event. Get your tickets now online!
Arthur Adams is an award-winning artist who became an immediate fan favorite as the penciler on the critically-acclaimed 1985 Longshot mini-series. His decades-spanning career has included cover and interior work on such titles as Batman, Superman, The Hulk, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-Men, New Mutants, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Excalibur, Ultimate X, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Walking Dead. He’s the creator, writer and artist on Monkeyman and O’Brien.
Outside of comics, Arthur has done movie, toy, and game designs, book illustrations, and provided the artwork for an X-Men themed Spaghetti-O’s can.
Viktor Farro studied editorial illustration at the 2019 Illustration Academy in Kansas City and its Visual Arts Passage online program from 2020-2023. Through those two programs, he had the privilege of studying under Mark English, John English, Sterling Hundley, Gary Kelley, Edward Kinsella III, George Pratt, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Dale Stephanos, among others.
He also studied constructive anatomy in a year-long program with Steve Huston through his realist artist program, Draws From Life.
Farro’s work has been recognized nationally by 3×3, Creative Quarterly Journal, and selected for American Illustration AI42, 3×3 International Illustration Annual 20, and the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles’ Illustration West 62.
His clients include Marvel SNAP, OverPower card game, Image Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Massive Publishing, Skybound Entertainment, UDON Publishing, among others.
Nikkol Jelenic is an American artist who has painted and penciled comic book covers and pages, music albums, and game design art.
Nikkol painted the cover art for Dynamite Entertainment’s Red Sonja vs. The Army Of Darkness series and is also a recent featured interior artist on the horror anthology The Haunted Box from Iron Age Comics as well as a frequent cover artist for Darby Pop Publishing’s Side-Kicked series.
After working for AfterShock Comics as a sequential artist for After Dark, she co-created a graphic novel titled Midnight Rose with Jim Starlin, also published by AfterShock. Jelenic will be teaming up with Starlin again, featured as a penciler on his legendary creator-owned title Dreadstar in an upcoming anthology for the eponymous character.
Jelenic has wrapped up her creator-owned title A Taste For Killing horror comic collection, taking place in the ACID i COMICS universe, with her killer clown tale “Chuckles Knuckles-Hook.”
Her past works include Red Sonja vs. The Army Of Darkness, The Uncanny X-Men 100 Project, A Taste For Killing, Midnight Rose, After Dark, Side-Kicked, The Haunted Box, The Women of Darby Pop, and various indie titles.
To see more of her art and projects, follow her on IG: @nikkol.jelenic
Justin Mason is currently known for his work on Spider-Punk and its sequel series, Spider-Punk: Arms Race. His other credits include Star Wars, Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis, Death of the Venomverse, and Marvel Zombies: Black, White & Blood. He lives in the backwoods of Corbin, Kentucky with his wife and kids.
Joe Pruett is an Eisner Award-winning comic book editor and writer. Best known as the editor of the multi-Eisner, Harvey, and Eagle Award-nominated anthology Negative Burn, he has also written for virtually every major comic publisher, including Image, Vertigo, IDW, DC, AfterShock, Caliber, and Marvel, where he wrote for X-Men Unlimited, Cable, Domino, Wolverine, and Magneto Rex. He also served as Publisher at Desperado Publshing and AfterShock Comics, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Ninth Circle Comics, currently being published by Image Comics. His most recent writing credits include Viking Moon and Voices In My Head at Image, and upcoming work in Savage Sword of Conan and BOOM!’s Hello, Darkness.
Peter J. Tomasi, recipient of the 2018 Inkpot Award for achievement in comics, is a New York Times best-selling author known not only for his writing on Superman, Batman and Robin, Super Sons, Green Lantern Corps, Batman-Detective Comics, and many more, but also as an award-winning group editor at DC Comics for 15 years where he ushered in new eras for Batman, Justice Society of America, Green Lantern, and the best-seller, Kingdom Come.
Tomasi is also the author of House of Penance, nominated for best graphic novel at 2018 Angouleme International Comic Festival, Light Brigade, The Mighty, Blood Tree, and the critically-acclaimed graphic novel The Bridge: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge published by Abrams ComicArts. Tomasi also wrote the screenplay for the popular animated film Death of Superman, and his screenplay for The Bridge was on The Black List as one of the best unproduced Hollywood scripts of that year.
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Arthur Adams (Longshot), Joel Adams (Ms. Mystic), Zeea Adams (Deadman), Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: REIGN 2), Jeremy Bastian (Cursed Pirate Girl), Marty Baumann ((Pixar artist), John Beatty (Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars), Rose Besch (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), Josh Blaylock (Mercy Sparx, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Russ Braun (The Boys), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jacen Burrows (Crossed), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Richard Case (Doom Patrol), Donny Cates (Venom), Keith Champagne (Stranger Things), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jo Chen (Runaways), Sean Chen (Evermind), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Michael Cho (The Avengers and the Veracity Trap), Amy Chu (Emma Frost: The White Queen), Chris Claremont (X-Men), Matthew Clark (Adventures of Superman, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Becky Cloonan (Somna), Michael W. Conrad (Manowar: Invictus), Denys Cowan (The Question), Dani (Sensational Wonder Woman), Alan Davis (Excalibur), Deans Family Productions (Crass Fed), Jeff Dekal (Something is Killing the Children), Francine Delgado (Gatchaman), Kevin Delgado (Tuff Stuff, courtesy of Comics and Collectibles R Us), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Ryan Dunlavey (Action Philosophers), Garth Ennis (The Boys, Saturday and Sunday only), Viktor Farro (Invincible Universe: Battle Beast), David Finch (Moon Knight), Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs), Trish Forstner (Feral), Franco (Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales), Barbara Friedlander (Swing with Scooter), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Ron Garney (BRZRKR), Chris Giarrusso (Mini Marvels), Dan Goldman (Unfinished Business), Randy Green (Witchblade). Mike Grell (Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters), Torunn Grønbekk (Catwoman), Gavin Guidry (Action Comics), Brian Haberlin (Spawn, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Bob Hall (West Coast Avengers), Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle), Scott Hanna (Amazing Spider-Man), Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Marc Hempel (Sandman), Jamal Igle (Superman, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Klaus Janson (Daredevil), Nikkol Jelenic (Dreadstar), Dave Johnson (100 Bullets), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Incredible Hulk), J.G. Jones (Wanted), Chris Kemple (Artist Alley Comics), Chip Kidd (The Avengers in the Veracity Trap), Derek Kirk Kim (The Last Mermaid), Tom King (Wonder Woman), Adam Kubert (Wolverine), Jae Lee (Inhumans), Rachta Lin (Justice League Unlimited), Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween), Tula Lotay (Barnstormers), Nate Lovett (Dungeons & Dragons), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Alex Maleev (Star Wars: Boba Fett – Black White and Red), Anthony Marques (The Green Hornet), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Shawn Martinbrough (Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Jose Marzan Jr. (Y: The Last Man), Justin Mason (Spider-Punk), Charlie McElvy (Spider-Squirrel), Mike McKone (Red Goblin), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Josh Middleton (Aquaman), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Mark Morales (Thor), Trevor Mueller (Albert the Alien), Sarah Myers (TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures), Tom Nguyen (The Switch), Mike Norton (Battlepug, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Patrick Olliffe (Untold Tales of Spider-Man), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), John J. Pearson (In Bloom), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), Barbara Perez Marquez (The Cardboard Kingdom), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Brandon Peterson (Uncanny X-Men), Khoi Pham (Star Wars: Darth Vader), Paul Pope (THB), Joe Pruett (Savage Sword of Conan), Tom Raney (Green Lantern), Amy Reeder (Power Girl), Rod Reis (COWL), Esad Ribic (Conan the Barbarian), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Andrew Robinson (Halo), James Robinson (Starman), Craig Rousseau (Herculoids), Stephane Roux (Void Rivals), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Andy Runton (Owly), Stuart Sayger (Conan the Barbarian), Joseph Schmalke (Seven Years in Darkness, courtesy of Groundbreaking Comics), Bart Sears (Deathstroke), Declan Shalvey (Old Dog), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Don Simpson (Megaton Man), Jeff Smith (Bone), John K. Snyder III (Suicide Squad), Mark Sparacio (Chelsea Dagger and the Women of Excalibur), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Brian Stelfreeze (Black Panther), Paul D. Storrie (Storm Kids: Stanley’s Ghost), Karl Story (The Mandalorian), Zoe Thorogood (It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Universe), John Timms (Superman: Son of Kal-El), Peter Tomasi (The Rocketfellers), Billy Tucci (Shi), Fred Van Lente (Action Philosophers), Brian K. Vaughan (Spectators, Friday and Saturday only), Gus Vazquez (Sunfire and Big Hero Six), Charles Vess (Stardust), Wade Von Grawbadger (Justice League), Mark Waid (Justice League Unlimited), David F. Walker (Big Jim and the White Boy, Saturday and Sunday only), Dan Watters (Nightwing), Lee Weeks (Batman/Catwoman Special), Mark Wheatley (Breathtaker), Matt Wieringo (Stargate Atlantis: Gateways), Keith Williams (Web of Spider-Man), Rich Woodall (Electric Black), John Workman (Wild Things), Kelly Yates (Doctor Who), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).
BEN GRIMM VS. WILSON FISK! To save the life of one innocent, can the Thing take down the Kingpin and his top enforcers? Can you even clobber the man who owns New York City?!
The second-stringers have fallen, and now it’s time for Ben Grimm to hit harder than he’s ever punched anyone! Can he stop the unstoppable Juggernaut while protecting an innocent child? And who is watching the battle from the shadows?
