Doom (comic)

The Doom comic is a sixteen-page comic strip, written in 1996 by Steven Dehling and Michael Stewart, with art and color design by Tom Grindberg, all credited with purposely gory nicknames for the occasion. It was produced by the same Tom Grindberg, of Marvel Comics, as a giveaway for a video game convention.

The story is loosely based on that of Doom, and revolves around a marine searching for powerful weaponry in order to defeat a cyberdemon. The strip includes many well-known Doom monsters, including zombies, imps, cacodemons and spectres. Several of the weapons from Doom are featured, including the shotgun, chainsaw, chaingun, plasma gun and BFG9000.

The comic first achieved fame in 2001 when Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka reviewed the comic on PlanetQuake, and later received exposure again in the 10 Years of Doom special at Doomworld in December of 2003, where it was published online. Original art from the project was put up for auction on eBay in April of 2004. The over-the-top character of the Doom comic has made it rather notorious within the fan community.

Printings
There are two known printings of the comic. The first is the original giveaway printing and the second a set that was produced for the id Anthology collection. When compared to the better-known id Anthology version, the giveaway printing features the following differences:
 * It is printed on whiter paper than the id Anthology copy, which gives it more contrast.
 * The front cover looks somewhat paler.
 * The issue number is italicised and the warning text is not.
 * The advertisements are different; Hexen for PlayStation on the inside front cover, PlayStation Plus on the inside back cover and Final Doom for PlayStation on the back cover.

Fan tributes

 * A dramatic rendition of the Doom comic, released in September 2005
 * A video version of the Doom comic, incorporating scans and the dramatic renditon audio.