Marvel Tales: Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1

It is rare for a comic with an outlandish concept to live up to the visceral joy its suggestion provokes. It is accordingly rarer for it to surpass that potential. Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1 is such a book, emphatically existing, because such absurdity must exist to make comics what they are. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom and Rocket Racoon is a buddy comedy through the expanses of time that I did not know I needed this week. The humor and level of seriousness in the search for the meaning of life are appropriate given the current world. It offers an excellent escape and some laughs. This is a must-read issue! Read Full Review

Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1 is a fun start to this series and works on both an entertaining and Metaphysical levels providing an fun and entertaining story that also will make readers question some larger questions of the Marvel Universe in this stand-alone non-One World Under Doom story. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1 is a delightful one-shot that delivers on its promise of an unlikely yet compelling team-up. Straczynski's storytelling and Robson's artwork seamlessly offers a mix of science, humor, and adventure, even if a couple of moments stumble. Fans of cosmic Marvel tales or either character will find plenty to enjoy in this clever and satisfying issue. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom and Rocket Raccoon #1 doesn't seem like it should work, but it absolutely does and actually goes on to be a pretty fun and surprisingly emotional comic book. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1 is an oddly inconsistent yet strangely amusing one-shot that finds Doctor Doom hiring Rocket Raccoon to build a machine to answer the greatest question in the universe. J. Michael Straczynski's imaginative script ultimately leads to thought-provoking concepts with an interesting resolution, but you may find yourself suffering from tonal whiplash by the end. Read Full Review

Sollywoods

Jan 22, 2025

I need this to be an ongoing series. There's so few ongoing series that are interesting right now. Ultimate Universe aside, which is awesome, main 616 is at an all-time boring level of writing right now, but then little gems like this cone out and remind me it could still be awesome again.

motorik

Jan 22, 2025

What an absolute treat. I did not know I needed this in my life. Marvel, we need a proper series. Make it so!

SneakyToaster17

Jan 22, 2025

This was a really cool one-shot. I thought it was better than Hickman’s Doom one shot from last year. I see alotta complaining about an inconsistent tone, but this is what I hoped for from this team up. There was one sorta cringey joke, but I can overlook it for enjoying the ending.

Jawnyblaze

Jan 28, 2025

I'm not a huge fan of either character, but this issue was a lot of fun. I can't imagine a team-up book of the two of them being written any better and the art was very solid too. Loved it.

Toonstrack

Jan 22, 2025

Obviously as a humongous Rocket fan I was gonna get this anyway, but I wasn't expected such an issue of epic cosmic scale. It manages to blend humor, pathos and adventure and to be incredibly engaging without even containing much of a fight scene. It builds upon an unlikely formation of Kindred spirits.. from when Rocket and Doom switched bodies, and gained understanding of each other that may be singular. Their dynamic here is surprisingly lively and given the comic book level abstractness of their shared goal here it would be easy for this issue to narratively implode in itself. But it doesn't. Id say the way it ends is pretty interesting, with room for some interpretations, but it speaks to why Doom is one of the very best of Marvels characters... and why Rocket is the perfect companion for this journey into his own soul. Its a little indulgent and typically praiseworthy of Doom, but I think it earns it. JMS killed it basically. High marks. And Will Robson had a gargantuan task with this issue and delivered too. Not everyone will appreciate his style, but I do. Hes able to capture expressive essentials and tone in ways that make the script sing. Pick this one up. We meed more Rocket books. more