Doomed #3

Fortune Favors the Foolish

Scott Lobdell – Writer
Javier Fernandez – Artist
Ulises Arreola – Colors
Corey Breen – Letters
Javier Fernandez & Kyle Ritter – Cover
T. Rex –Variant Cover
Andrew Marino – Assistant Editor
Paul Kaminski – Editor
Eddie Berganza – Group Editor

Our main cover shows a strange-looking 8-year-old boy blasting a monster with a ray gun. Except that's not really a little boy — he's an alien monster-hunter. And that "monster" is actually the main character of this series, a skinny kid named Reiser (Scott Lobdell never thought to give him a last name). He was exposed to Doomsday spores and now randomly turns into this Doomsday-like monster. I can't say I find the concept or the art too appealing. And I'm certainly not encouraged by Lobdell's involvement.

Our variant cover is a horrific representation of the Doomsday monster destroying Reiser's body from the inside out. The problem, though, is that this is completely the wrong tone for this series. This issue is very light-hearted and goofy — the main plot is Reiser struggling to watch over a small dog. Yeah, the main concept for this series could have gone in a horror direction, but Lobdell made it silly.

Kid Flash only shows up on the last two pages of this issue, so I'm not going to worry about any of the story. Wonder Girl, Power Girl and Kid Flash arrive at S.T.A.R. Labs via helicopter to meet with a woman named Alicia. She has specifically called in the Elite to deal with Doomed, but she mistakenly refers to Bar Torr as Flash Boy.

And that's it. I was under the assumption that the Elite was formed specifically to take down Superboy, but I guess Lobdell found time for them to cameo in his new series. However, Lobdell completely forgot about Power Girl and "Flash Boy" in the next issue of this series. Only Wonder Girl appears in Doomed #4 because ... Lobdell.

Yeah, the whole thing was quite a waste. If you want a cameo, then make sure you actually give the guest stars something to do. Let's check out our new house ads that have finally moved past the DCYou.

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