- Please have the monitors odd-shaped with thin borders of Kirby-like tech

- Please include the following scenes on the monitors:

(1)   Reed taking the cosmic control rod from Annihilus (FF Annual #6)
(2)   The Thing with the pipes wrapped around the Hulk holding him at bay (FF #25)
(3)   Sue defeating the Pycho-man from your run on FF
(4)   The Human Torch returning with the ultimate nullifier to stave off Galactus (FF #50)

Draw the FF in costumes as shown in the referenced comics

- Perhaps have Dr. Doom working on a weapon as he studies the monitors; it's you call though, whatever you feel works best.

For some reason, the scanned segments of this one were particularly resistant to being fitted together properly, so if you spot any "seams" here, or in the full sized scan, that's why!

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Yes and no.

When I read the list of scenes, I was immediately struck by how "low key" some of them were. The scene were Reed grabs Annihilus' cosmic control rod, for instance. In the actual comic, he was not even stretching! The moment where Johnny returns from Galactus' "home world" was also not itself very dramatic. I cheated there a bit by including the "Kirby Krackle" that had actually been in the preceding panel.

But the overall description of the piece, with Doom looking at images on screens, I felt precluded my taking too many liberties. In an "action montage" such as the Kree/Skrull War piece, I feel I can move stuff around and have actions unfolding that are not exactly as they were originally seen. But I didn't want to cheat that much on this one.

So, not really a montage in a literal sense.

(One of the things I found most intriguing about this piece was the idea that Doom could monitor and record the members of the FF no matter where they were! Even in other dimensions! That's. . .   creepy!!!)

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As did I. But since the chosen scenes were, as noted, not entirely as exciting as we might have wished, I decided to juice 'em up a bit by expanding the point of view.

To make it worse, in the case of Doom's armor I have that feeling with EVERY SECTION! Okay, the thigh worked, but will the knee work. . . ??

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Because of the "snapshot" nature of this piece, I tried to capture how Ben looked in each of the scenes portrayed. In that particular issue, Kirby was inked by George Roussos (as George Bell). Not my favorite Kirby inker, but I nevertheless tried to make this image look as much like his inks as I could without actually losing my own style.

Same with the Hulk.

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My impression of Doom, from the very beginning, was that his armor was a real suit that he found somewhere, and modified to his needs. As such, it should look old and well used, I think.

(In his first appearance, in FF 5, Doom's armor was drawn much more "realistically", with practical elbows and knees, rather than the "rubber" ones he later came to wear. Also the upper parts of his arms and legs were covered with cloth, rather than metal. I have wondered for years whether this was Joe Sinnott's doing. Joe doesn't remember -- so long ago! -- but he has told me that Stan encouraged him to do quite a lot of redrawing of Kirby's pencils, especially making faces and bodies less angular. Since that first collaboration, in FF 5, would have been over what today we would call "breakdowns", I would not be at all surprised if it was Joe's attention to historic detail that gave us the original look of the armor.)