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...foregoes placing the butt against his shoulder and thus precludes the use of the sight, not to mention any hope whatsoever of a steady shot. The stance he takes is more reminiscent of the video game Doom than anything in reality...
...pathos, can be done right or wrong. Mostly it gets done wrong. But when done right, as by its founders Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and here by Simonson, it can be a delight and impossible to put down. On the first page of this four-issue series Dr. Doom hovers over a storm-swept castle as his doom-bots, "the banshees of hate," come, "skirling down through the sleet... carried on the wings of the whistling wind!" I challenge you not to turn the page...
...page two we get rompin'-stompin' mayhem, and by page five we get the first of three major plot twists. Dr. Doom has returned from his travels and immediately plots revenge against the Four, luring one of their members to his home. When the others come looking, each gets caught in an ingenious trap until just one remains. Then it's Dr. Doom vs. Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards, who sums it up this way: "You propose a battle in time? With the lives of my family as the stakes?" With this cliffhanger, it ends...
Most of the pages are split down the middle. On one side Doom battles Richards in a disjointed, black-and-white battle through the past and future minutes that surround the story of the other team-members, told in color next to it. The stories interconnect when they are both in the same time and the same place. A clock readout that accompanies both story lines allows you to actually follow the whole thing from either point of view...
...least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation to farmers and an estimated $150 million a week in losses...