Doom 2099: The Complete Collection by Warren Ellis Paperback – January 1, 2013

This is one of few comics that have main super protagonist who decides to take care of some social and political issues that appear even nowadays. If you expected mainstream superhero comic, this one is not for You.First few stories were difficult to understand because Ellis just continued someone else's storyline and had to tie it up.Main story, and main treat if I might say, is Doom's idea to help Earth's population by enslaving world and becoming a benevolent dictator. If this sentence sounds attractive to you, I guarantee that plot and conclusion will not let your hopes down! It would be difficult for low calibre writers to take on such a topic, but Ellis shows just how good he is in this book.Along with Planetary, this might be my favourite Ellis' work.

I always liked Doom 2099. I guess it was the most unexpected series to be launched from Marvel in their new 2099 line. Spider-Man, X-Men was normal choices. This collection reunites the work of Warren Ellis in the series. In it, we can see the rise and fall of Doom in 2099 AD. Great art of Steve Pugh and I think it was the best work of Pat Broderick (and I don't like his work in general). I just think that they should have released a Doom 2099 vol. 1 first. I miss issues 1-23 and some of them are very good. I hope Marvel do something about this as they are resealing X-Men 2099 and Spider-Man 2099 from the beginning. I recommend this collection for Doom, Warren Ellis, Seteve Pugh and Pat Broderick fans.

Easily some of Ellis best work. Marvel 2099 exists in a dystopian future that combines the worst of the 90's and 80's cliches. In spite of this, Ellis makes something beautiful. This is not the Doom that we know, he has grown beyond his petty rivalry with Reed Richards. In his place stands Doom allowed to be what he is meant to be, an old world technocrat.I won't spoil the rest except to say that this is a beautiful piece buried beneath some crap. The first few chapters aren't very good (Ellis was having to follow someone else's plots) but once you get past those you have an epic that is well worth the effort.

Warren Ellis is a great writer. I knew that when I read these stories in their original single-issue form way back when. Ellis' take on Dr. Doom in this dystopian future world was brilliant. I have always been a big Dr. Doom fan, and I had been waiting for years for Marvel to collect at least some of the stories in trade paperback form. Now, I can only hope they release the rest in similar fashion. Anyone who likes Doom needs to buy this book.

This trade paperback includes Doom 2099 #24-#39 and parts of 2099 Special: The World of Doom. It is therefore not a "complete collection" despite its title. It also features a couple additional pieces of cover art, but nothing necessary. If you just want to read some stories about Doom 2099, this isn't a bad way to catch up. However, if you want the full story, you'll be disappointed and have to find some other way to read #1-#23.

One of the top writers in the history of the United Kingdom. Doom 2099 as good as comic books get. Nuff said.

Good overall but I wish it was the whole series

If there was the option I would have given this three and a half actually, but I think that I did not get a lot out of it on my first reading. Yes, this is a book that deserves multiple readings (well, at least two). I agree with much of what was written by other reviewers, including the one who gave it one star who says that it was difficult to read. Yes, it is a difficult read, but I think this is because:1. It starts midway from a previous story that Warren Ellis did not initiate2. It covers very philosophical and political themes in a very detailed manner3. If you do not have prior background on the 2099 universe that makes it even more difficult to get the full story4. The Doom series impacts all hte other characters in the 2099 line (such as Spider-Man 2099, X-men 2099, Hulk 2099 and Punisher 2099) but this series does not cover their individual titlesSo basically, there are parts of this which are brilliant,, parts which which are so incredibly detailed that they are hard to understand fully (due to the reasons stated above) and parts that are OK. I cannot fairly say an of it is bad though because to be honest the parts I didn't enjoy very much I don't think I truly understood.One thing none of the other reviewers touched upon is that Ellis seems to be making a political statement here, and he is d oing so in an incredibly elequent and intelligent manner. This is one of the most politicall sound alternative universes I have ever read about in mainstream comics. Most comics have a difficult time depicting actual politics which is grounded in current affairs, but this does a great job in creating a political environment from scratch which appears to be quite realistic, so realistic in fact that you feel like you don't fully understand it (hence my comments above). I previously thought they did a very good job of this in Planet Hulk, but this is much better than that in this aspect (although Hulk is a more entertaining comic).For example, I am glad that Ellis is not so politically naive as many writers are to make Doom the Dictator all bad (I know his previously established character wasn't all bad either, but Ellis's Doom aven appears a little bit more, shall we say, tollerant than that, especially towards members of his "cabinet", but even towards civilians). Yes, evil he is, but his foes are even more evil, thus mirroring many real life examples where the dictator is not necessarily the worst option faced by the people of a country. Shades of grey.As another reviewer stated Pat Broderick does what is probably the best work of his career here (I mean just look at that cover!). I always though Broderick had the potential to be a George Perez or a Brian Bolland (for example some of his covers from Captain Atom in the 80s were amazing) but there was just a little too much inconsistency in his art, especially the interiors. In this collection I counted only two panels where this inconsistency reared its head in a very obvious manner, the rest was either acceptable or excellent. I was genuinely disappointed when the artists switched around mid way through this book.All in all, this series made me more interested in exploring the rest of 2099. I remember when they first came out in the 90s, I read a few issues but was not really interested in it (other than Ghost Rider 2099 which at the time was better than the Marvel series).I think that this will come to be seen as an under-rated series,

São histórias muito boas, e tem algumas que não saíram no Brasil.Mas confesso que comprei achando que teria a serie toda, essa começa a partir do número 24, indo até o final da série. (só depois que fui ver que tinha isso na descrição)

Think doom is great villain whoever wrote this has no clue to his motivations total blarney

Very entertaining. Certainly one of the best things published by Marvel in this period. Fascinating as a near-history piece of speculative-fiction.

The earliest stories in this volume are hindered by the fact Ellis is having to work with the plot left him by the earlier author but once this is left behind Ellis gets into the swing of having a total bastard conquer America for its own good

Warren Ellis does his best to inject some over the top futurism here, I liked it but as it stars partway into a story arc by another (co)writer it takes a little bit to get inboard with the characters and storyline. The inking is standard 90's garish colours with nicely handled pencils by Pat Broderick