"Homecoming," and "Entangling Alliances," by John Francis Moore, with art by Jeff Lafferty & Vince Russell.
What happens to DOOM 2099 when original scripter John Francis Moore returns to bring the title back to 2099, and ... to an end? And after covering the entire series, where does the Professor rank it among his personal pantheon of comic book series?
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Promo: Earth Destruction Directive
Next Time: Doomed 2099 #1, cover-dated October 2025.
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Interesting ending to this whole affair. I love bringing Moore back and him hand-waving the nonsense that has preceded his ending. I don't know if you have intrigued me enough to seek this series out ... but you are pretty close. I mean, putting Doom 2099 on your Mt. Rushmore of runs is impressive.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to play by your rules of complete runs of characters, etc. And it is hard not to flood the list with Vertigo books since they tended to end definitively. So ...
1) Shade the Changing Man - I am speaking about the Vertigo run which was just a brilliant look at both madness, American insanity, and relationships. Wonderful.
2) Fallen Angel - The DC series was a backdoor continuation of Peter David's Supergirl character and then broke off when it moved to IDW. A very Noir, very supernatural series with a sort of cursed protagonist. Solid all the way through.
3) Alias (by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos) - Everything you thought you knew about Jessica Jones changed with this series showing her dark past, her foibles, and a gritty underbelly of the Marvel Universe. Definitive take on the character.
4) Doom Patrol - I just think every run of this team, from the original Drake/Premiani to Kupperberg/Lightle to Morrison/Case to Arcudi/Huat to Giffen/Clark to even the Gerard Way and Dennis Culver written more recent runs - they all really are solid reads looking at the quirky heroes. Yes, I skipped Byrne's run, the low point. But there needs to be a low point, something has to be worst, and this is it. But it isn't so horrible (it IS pretty horrible) to have its stench stick to all the others.
Sad to see the book end but looking forward to more Doom.
Fallen Angel does not surprise me.
DeleteYou know, I've never read much Alias, possibly an issue here or there. Bug really loved her TV series.
And of course there's a Vertigo. I could have easily added more from the line to my list -- Unwritten? Sandman? Em would argue for Constantine, of course!
Thought about Hellblazer - Delano/Jenkins are high points for me. But stopped at #150 and it went to #300!!! So couldn't comment really.
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