Marvel has paid tribute to the late MF DOOM in its newest DOOM comic book.
Earlier this week (May 15), Marvel Comics published its first DOOM comic since 2000, which focuses on the lead character Doctor Doom. The newly released comic book pays tribute to late rapper MF DOOM, who was a fan of the character and famously work Doctor Doom’s mask onstage.
The opening page of the DOOM issue includes the first line of lyrics to MF DOOM’s and Madlib’s ‘Accordion’: “Living on borrowed time / the clock ticks faster…”
Marvel gives a shoutout to MF DOOM on the first page of the new Doctor Doom comic book that was released today. They dedicated an entire page to the first line of ‘Accordion’. This series of Doctor Doom comics hasn’t been in print since 2000. This is the first issue since MF DOOM passed away.
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The newly released comic book also marks the first issue of a DOOM release to be printed since MF DOOM’s untimely death in 2020. The British-born rapper — whose real name is Daniel Dumile — died on October 31, 2020, aged 49.
In July last year, his widow Jasmine Dumile has confirmed that the rapper passed away from a condition known as angioedema — a rare and severe reaction he had to his blood pressure medication.
In the time since his death, various figures from across the music industry have come together to keep the rapper’s legacy alive. This includes a posthumous feature on ‘Cheat Codes’ – an album made by Danger Mouse and Black Thought – and plans for a biography, called The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, written by veteran music journalist S. H. Fernando Jr.
Thom Yorke also shared a remix of MF DOOM‘s ‘Gazzillion Ear’ in tribute to the late musician, and a street block in Long Beach, New York was officially renamed in his memory.
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