WEEK OF DOOM: Necrotek Rising!
Probably my favorite issue of John Francis Moore's Doom 2099 run. Just a done and one issue where Doom take's on the mystical creature, Necrotek, and has to use his greatest weapon of all, his mind, to beat him. From Doom 2099 #13.
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It pains me to cut so much of this issue, espically the beginning. Now the usual artist for Moore's run, Pat Broderick, didn't pencil this issue. Instead, a fill-in artist by the name of Alcatena. Yep one word. Curious to see if they have done any work after this. I really loved the style they drew for this issue.
Anyway, some poor sap does what poor saps do dabbling in forces beyond their understanding and unleashes a demonic entity named Necrotek. Meanwhile, the young gypsy mystic Vox has taken Doom to a monastery on the hill tops near Latervia that where kept so secret they where hidden away even during when Doom ruled.
The reason of course is again to unlock Doom's missing memories. However, as the watcher of such ancient books is looking for a spell (unlike some this dude modernized his library. In book and online form. Course he goes for the online version and falls prey to Necrotek who kills the old man. So what does Necrotek want? Why what the wee Vox has. A mystical item that we all know and love from Marvel:
Of course Necrotek finds Doom and attempts at bargaining. Doom will not budge even calling him, "HELLSPAWN!". Necrotek then decides to go after Vox given reasoning has failed. Doom then uses the only bargaining chip that will get the demon's attention away from slaying the young boy:
Thank god for all the subplots that went on during this issue. After the pain of not scanning the first couple of pages after that it was a breeze which pages to scan. You had Fortune looking for her brother (which was the next big arc for this book) and then you got the "Asgards" who show up at the end of this issue.
The very next issue was the first big crossover between all 2099 books that involved the characters taking on the Norse Gods, who weren't really the true gods, just some poor people a megacorp used. But we got Avatarr and Halloween Jack from the crossover so WIN WIN!