Dr. Strange Mini-series this fall

[NightBeetle]

Preview: Strange #2

Who is Stephen Strange? Months ago, in a chance encounter, he saved a woman's life--and since then, she's devoted every waking moment to tracking him down and learning his secrets! But her investigations are taking her down a very dangerous road of magic and mysticism--and straight towards one of Strange's oldest foes! Rated T

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Man, Casey's family sucks.

 

[BrianWilly]

None of you could possibly understand how little I care about the series anymore. (this are a sentance!)

I mean...I'm all for new characters, but this entire scenario just read like some horrifying, disposable fanfiction. This is from Mark Waid? Ughz.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've been enjoying it. Casey could potentially be a decent new character after the mini. Granted, I wish we'd gotten some references to established Strange stuff like where the hell Wong is or what's going on with his relationship with the Night Nurse, but the first issue was a light, enjoyable read. The concept of a guy who's been freed from all his responsibilities but is confident enough in his successor to just relax is interesting to me. Plus, his near-total lack of power and determination to still help out where he can works as a kind of atonement for the fact that he lost his position in disgrace for being too arrogant.

 

[BrianWilly]

Which could be okay, I suppose, if he were the protagonist of the story. But really, this is going to be Casey's quest in every way. Maybe it'll suddenly and dramatically change in the next issues, but as far as everything we've seen so far from issue 1? Strange is the Gandalf to her Frodo, the Kenobi to her Luke, the Ochanomizu to her Atom. And the Gandalfs and the Kenobis and the Ochanomizus are great, necessary characters for the story, but the story isn't about them.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I see it more as a shared story. Casey provides the POV, but the story is about Strange in the aftermath of his disgrace and how he and Casey basically revitalize each other. Or at least that's what it seems to be setting up to me. But I liked Kenobi more than anyone else in the entire Star Wars franchise (except maybe Kyle Katarn), so maybe I'm biased.

 

[BrianWilly]

Honestly, he doesn't even appear in that preview. We see what Strange is doing, perhaps, but the story is about Casey's life.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Right, so 5 pages out of 1 issue of a 4-issue mini-series, Strange is absent. Not really a big deal to me. Casey's a major figure in the series, I agree, but I think it's a bit hasty to declare the whole series about her while Strange is marginalized to a fly on the wall. It's not The Oath, but nobody should've expected it to be. We all knew it would be a decidedly more mid-life crisisy take on Strange, and I think Waid's delivered a promising start to that so far.

 

[NightBeetle]

THE MYSTIC HANDS OF DR. STRANGE
Written by KIERON GILLEN, PETER MILLIGAN, TED MCKEEVER & MIKE CAREY
Penciled by FRAZIER IRVING, FRANK BRUNNER, TED MCKEEVER & more!
Cover by LUCIO PARRILLO
It’s the Sorcerer Supreme versus the magical might of the political terrorist known as the Doktor! Stephen Strange struggles with a decision to help a man crippled by his worst memories! And the Master of the Mystic Arts battles a demon in the streets of New York! All this and more in this all-new, all-action, all-black-and-white one-shot in the spirit of the Mighty Marvel Magazines of yore, but ALL-NOW in style! The magical mayhem never lets up for a moment over these four stories by some of Marvel’s hottest creators!
48 PGS./Black & White/One-Shot
Parental Advisory ...$3.99

 

[NightBeetle]

Preview: Strange #3

Stephen Strange and his new apprentice travel not to the Ruins of Raggador or the Dread Dimension of Dormammu...but to a small Southern town conducting a bizarre ritual of its own, one that threatens the life of every young girl in the state! Plus: more on the secrets that Stephen himself is hiding from his student!

 

[NightBeetle]

Dr. Strange Sketchbook: Emma Rios

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Rios: Facing up to Stephen´s redesign wasn't easy. One of the premises we started to work with was changing his deus ex machina attitude and making him look more human and attractive. Basically, I went back to his hair from the 1970's-80's, [which was] longer and cooler, and dressed him more casual and tried to keep his elegance at all costs.


I love drawing middle aged characters. This is nothing Freudian, it's just like what happens with actors: a few wrinkles and an experienced look can make a character deeper from the beginning. Despite the optimistic tone of the series, Stephen is suffering for losing his status. I really tried to enter into his mind and show his distress and feelings through his expression or corporeal movement when necessary.
When I did this pic, I started to catch the idea everybody was looking for. The idea of somebody who could bring some light to people. He is a wonderful character.

Rios: This was the first rough I did for Casey. My first idea was to do something physically opposite to Stephen's appearance. Short, blond, childish; of course there were some changes in the end-clothing, her hair became blue, glasses-but the basic idea is the same. I really wanted to avoid the super hot and cool Clea type and try something different to reboot the magical student idea.
Her design is not very original partly on purpose. She is a totally common girl who faces magic for the first time and gets her life all messed up because of this. This concept works great to combine Strange´s universe and the real world. That's why I really tried to draw her as natural as possible, just as if any of us could be in her place.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It still boggles my mind that no one's used Marcos Martin's fantastic redesign of Strange's costume from The Oath again. But Rios' art on the series has been quite good. She's similar in a lot of ways to Madame Xanadu's Amy Reeder Hadley, although I think Hadley's pencils are more crisp.

 

[NightBeetle]

Strange #4 Preview

In order to save a handful of lives, the powerless Stephen Strange has made a decision that will doom far more--and he has no way to undo it. The price Strange and his new apprentice will pay to set things right is incalculable--and will leave Stephen Strange forever changed! Rated T …$3.99

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yay, the Black Knight!

 

[NightBeetle]

Dr. Strange related

Doctor Strange: From The Marvel Vault #1
Written by ROGER STERN
Penciled by NEIL VOKES
Cover by MARIO ALBERTI
A Marvel Masterpiece from deep inside the treasure vaults can now be told! For decades, Doctor Stephen Strange has worked as a practicing sorcerer out of the weird old brownstone at 177A Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. But what eerie secrets does the building hide? What lurks within its walls? Is it … haunted? Now, at last, the full story of Doctor Strange's first night in his Sanctum Sanctorum stands revealed –- in a tale tastefully told by Roger Stern (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and dramatically drawn by those Masters of the Comic Arts, Neil Vokes and Jay Geldhof (UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS, The Black Forest).
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eeenterestink. I'll have to give that a look. That cover is gorgeous; I hope Vokes is as good on the interiors.

 

[iloveclones]

That is a nice looking cover (but his cape is getting almost as long as Venom's tongue...)

 

[Justkidding]

Speaking of Dr.Strange was that mini Waid did supposed to continue? What happened, I bought the issues and I was kind of peeved that Strange said he was going after the girl and it never happened.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Waid probably left the end open for more, but the sales didn't convince Marvel's bigwigs to greenlight more. Strange, for whatever reason, just can't seem to sell lately.

That is a nice looking cover (but his cape is getting almost as long as Venom's tongue...)

It's okay, it's magic.

 

[NightBeetle]

Doctor Strange: From the Marvel Vault #1 Preview

A Marvel Masterpiece from deep inside the treasure vaults can now be told! For decades, Doctor Stephen Strange has worked as a practicing sorcerer out of the weird old brownstone at 177A Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. But what eerie secrets does the building hide? What lurks within its walls? Is it … haunted? Now, at last, the full story of Doctor Strange's first night in his Sanctum Sanctorum stands revealed –- in a tale tastefully told by Roger Stern (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and dramatically drawn by those Masters of the Comic Arts, Neil Vokes and Jay Geldhof (UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS, The Black Forest).