Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #35: The VOICE of DOOM
August, 1988
The man who would be DOOM!
Wait so Doom would be Doom? Why isn’t he Doom right now? Isn’t Doom primarily known for being Doom? What’s the deeeeeeal?
-flips ahead- Ah ha. Well then that’s wrong on two levels. Another lying cover smh.
Anyway.
What have the West Coast Avengers been up to?
Lots of drama.
Remember the time that Mockingbird manslaughtered a cowboy during cowboy times for drugging her into being his girlfriend? Phantom Rider remembers because he was that cowboy. And now he’s trying to ruin her life. Afraid that her teammates and husband would sympathize if Mockingbird came clean about what happened to her, Phantom Rider told Hawkeye, Wonder Man, and Tigra before she could. They believe this random cowbody and are mad at her for doing a murder.
Mockingbird did tell Scarlet Witch, the Vision, the Wasp, Dr Pym, and Moon Knight and they were sympathetic.
Oh yeah, Scarlet Witch, the Vision, and the Wasp are here.
The other half of the drama is Hank Pym drama. He heard a rumor on the net that his dead wife was not dead and the West Coast Avengers plus the Wasp flew out to Hungary to investigate. Turns out it was a ruuuuuuse by Quicksilver who is in one of his asshole phases again. He also teamed up with a bunch of Hank’s old enemies who captured the Avengers.
Thanks in part to Phantom Rider, the Avengers break out of the super jail and escape Hungary. But Tigra forgot to put on the anti-get-shot-down defenses so the Quinjet gets shot down and they crash in Latveria.
Home of Doom.
And that’s why Doom is on the cover.
And that’s why Doom is watching Hawkeye and Mockingbird sleep.
See, it all comes together.




















