User blog:Nausiated/Project 11/61: So Speaks Doom!

Well this summer has been busy so the updates have not been coming as quickly as I'd like them to. Mostly due to the staggering number of comedy gigs I've been able to snatch up since I've been on vacation. Also I'm kind of addicted to the Avengers Alliance game. Which is one of those annoying Android games that makes it a massive challenge to play unless you want to pay out some cold hard cash to get better weapons and characters. That usually puts me off of a game, but wouldn't you know I got sucked into this one.

Anyway, here's some of my recent progress:

Dr. Doom: Now has an Expanded History page. I've done the ground work covering his early life and all of his appearances between 1961 and 1969. This also includes any flashback stories that were published after the 1961-1969 time frame that cover Doom's past prior to his first appearance in and all the issues in-between. It was an interesting thing to delve into, I would strongly recommend checking out Books of Doom which retells and expands Dr. Doom's history before he became one the Fantastic Four's deadliest foes (It's very much in the vein of Magneto: Testament and Red Skull)

Phillip Masters: The profile is currently up to his appearance in. I kept it all on a general page as Master's appears in just over 100 different stories. What I find interesting from doing all my research on Phillip Masters is that, like Magneto, Captain America and others his life is rooted in the early 20th Century. Per he was a child in 1931. While usually you can use the Sliding Timescale to "topical reference" that date, however Phillip is actively around Herbert Wyndham as he was building his Citadel of Science.. Which he did in 1931.. He's also incidentally tied into the origin of Spider-Woman who was also on Wundagore Mountain as a child. What further confirms this is which shows Phillip in New York as a young adult in 1947 when he was attending College with Alicia's biological father Jacob Reiss. Unlike Magneto or Captain America where there is an explanation as to how the Puppet Master can still be walking around in the "modern age" even though he's probably around 90 odd years old. I would suspect that the clay that he uses (which has been influenced by the magic of Chthon) was keeping him young. This is likely the case with Jacob Reiss and maybe even Alicia herself depending on when she was born.

Alicia Masters (Earth-616)/Expanded History: Alicia Masters has an Expanded History page. Unlike her step-father, as a supporting cast member of the FF she has been in a LOT of stories. A lot of people gloss over his appearances because they're usually a "Alicia and Ben" go on a date scenario, however if you're really detailed orientated, you'll note that even if Alicia appears in a few panels in a story, there's a lot going on between her and Ben's relationship.