who cares.
anyway, anyone know why doom seemed so....shocked on this page of new avengers 33?
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/New%20Avengers%20033-031.jpg.html
k, so here is my basic understanding of what has been going on over the course of the last....nearly 3 years of comicbooks....? and a bunch of questions for discussion--(likely a text wall, so read at your own risk):
first, the beyonders/IK decided at some point they wanted to end the entire multiverse simultaneously. as per the retcon of the molecule man's origin, they reached the decision 25 years ago in the 616 world when the beyonders created owen. at the same time he was created in the 616, he was also created in every universe in the multiverse and 25 years after his creation, he was designed to......blow up, and take with him his entire universe. when every own exploded, every universe, and thus the multiverse, would be destroyed at the exact same moment.
am i on the same page as everyone else so far...?
in an effort to stop this plan from happening, doom somehow....brought back the molecule man (who i thought was killed by sentry...?) it somehow turned out that owen's energy signature matched the beacon that doom recovered when he battled back the mapmaker's during the incursion in latveria. ironically, the beacons were being used by the beyonders to try and track the movements of rabum alal. the beacons were placed on worlds where owen was supposed to have died, correct....? anyway, the mapmakers strip the world bare, but....here is some confusion. why bother if the incursion is supposed to destroy both worlds anyway?
i thought the beacons were designed to bring them to worlds that NEEDED destroying. without an owen to blow it up, the incursions were to be used in his place. but i think that is wrong. any thoughts?
back to doom. so, over the last 25 years of his 616 life, he has been leading a double life. in his spare time he's been finding and killing owen's throughout the multiverse. but he was doing it too slowly, so created a religion of swans who ALSO went about his same task, helping him kill owen after owen.
now, a very confusing bit--doom says the first incursion didn't happen until 7 years into his killing spree:
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/New%20Avengers%20033-016.jpg.html
so...what the hell caused the first incursion? why did it take so long? more importantly (and maybe the crux of the entire storyline...): WHY DID IT HAPPEN? what was the purpose of that incursion? was it to destroy an owen-less earth?
the entire goal of the beyonders was the simultaneous death of every universe in the multiverse. with doom killing owen's that couldn't happen. so....what did the beyonders do instead? it seems they started trying to find the one responsible for killing the owens, and ultimately, they failed and never realized it was doom. so, they took matters into their own hands and simply starting killing....everything themselves. that sound right...?
and apparently they nearly succeeded. they killed lt who appears to have somehow embodied the multiverse (how could THAT be the case though if the 616 universe still existed after his death...?) then they returned to their realm. sometime after, doom appeared with owen and strange and....blasted them to death, the resulting blast surviving to also wipeout hundreds of thousands of universes.....
question: WHAT did doom blast them with? my thought was he had been gathering the power of all the owens he killed, but, i'm not sure.
after that, we have the last few incursions until only 2 universes are left. maker, with maxima's help, steals the design for the raft and makes his escape at the same time reed and the others do, and somehow they make it through the incursion to land in a pocket universe/world doom built when he had the IG. so, another question: if this battle world is made from bits of some of the dead universes, when the hell was doom supposed to have collected all these pieces, and what power did he use to do it?? i can't figure why he is still a god in this world.
my initial reaction was this wasn't the 616 doom, or the strange that was at the end of the new avengers 33. none of it makes sense. the world seems to have too much....history to it. i seriously have no clue. and THAT has been my biggest problem throughout this 3 year event. too many separate things happening, too many alluded-to revelations, but very few ACTUAL, punch-in-the-face revelations.
please feel free to correct misconceptions as you see fit, and to answer my questions if you can, even with speculation if that is all that is left atm.
whew.....