Doctor Doom’s tenure as sorcerer supreme comes with some additional responsibilities — namely serving as headmaster of the former Strange Academy. The students of that institution — who helped Doom save the world from the vampire invasion in Blood Hunt — will find out what it’s like to have One World Under Doom as they relocate from New Orleans to Latveria to study at the Doom Academy.
Announced during this weekend’s New York Comic Con, the five-issue miniseries is by MacKenzie Cadenhead, Pasqual Ferry and João Lemos. It’s part of the larger One World Under Doom event that’ll run through Marvel’s titles next year.
In addition to featuring characters like Zoe, Doyle and Toth, Cadenhead said it will also feature some new faces.
“It was really fun to go through old Doom stories and pick out some random characters that exist in that world and find someone or someone’s kid who might be attending Doom Academy,” Cadenhead said. “And because the school doesn’t exist, we got to really play with stuff. Pasqual is having a great time coming up with beautiful locales.”
Here’s the official description from Marvel:
Did you think that Strange Academy would be the same in the world with Doctor Doom as Sorcerer Supreme?! NO! It is now DOOM ACADEMY! Relocated from New Orleans to Latveria, the best magic school in the world just got better (according to some). It’s the start of the second year for Strange Academy students, and you know that things will not go as planned!
“In this story, Zoe ends up falling into a strange world that her friends have to help her escape from,” Cadenhead said, noting that Lemos will draw this sequence. “João Lemos’ research on Eastern European folklore and fairytales is astounding.”
The first issue will feature a main cover by Pablo Villalobos and variants by Ryan Brown and Woo-Chul Lee:
The first issue will arrive in stores Feb. 19.