Not to be a jerk (really) but at first it did seem odd to me… until I went back and looked at your other renderings and could see its always been there. It just that this page has a somewhat unique viewing angle that we don’t usually see. Once I had my brain look at other angles, it now looks fine…
An amusing thing about Doom’s mask is that its original FF5 form had first appeared in “The Monster in the Iron Mask” in one of Marvel’s old horror comics!
Trump with Sentinels is more dystopian than I want to even imagine.
But, that slight drift aside, the Doom close-up is highly effective.
It's also a nice touch that Nightcrawler doesn't know what the Doom Servo-Guards are (hope I've got that name right. Doombots were always the one's that Doom used in his absence not).
Peering down at Doom, who himself is peering down into his surveillance table, is just a brilliant panel. That it appears so unchallenging in its draftsmanship is mind-boggling.
Edited by Jonathan Watkins on 06 January 2022 at 3:45pm
JB: "...An amusing thing about Doom’s mask is that its original FF5 form had first appeared in “The Monster in the Iron Mask” in one of Marvel’s old horror comics..."
For a time (I haven't checked recently to know if this is still the case) Overstreet's Guide to Comics was listing that earlier comic as a Dr. Doom "prototype", Sure, maybe for the mask, but in no other way. I mean, it was basically a space-gorilla wearing Doom's mask.