As many of you know, Luke Cage premiered on Netflix this past weekend. And continuing the trend of the Marvel Netflix series, we had a pretty damn great entry, anchored by a solid cast and a willingness to tackle the hard questions. I loved it.
And funnily enough it reminded me of a comic I had read back in the day.
Luke Cage, Power Man #8 focused on the titular Hero for Hire being hired by Doctor Doom-yes, that Doctor Doom-to destroy some renegade robots. Cage agrees to the job, provided he is paid $200. He finds the robots and takes care of them, then returns to the Latverian embassy only to find out Doom has left without paying him.
Luke...does not take this well.
One visit to the Fantastic Four later, Cage takes their private plane to Latveria and confronts Doom. There is a fight, where Cage disables Doom's armor...and then more renegade robots show up. Cage deals with them which leads to this page;
Now this page is important. Not only did Cage get the money he wanted, he earned Doom's respect. Remember this is Victor Von Doom we're talking about. The man has an ego the size of the Death Star, it would take something really big to gain his respect.
And Luke Cage, of all people, managed to earn it.
That's pretty badass if you ask me.
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