Stephen Strange: Doctor Strange Appreciation 2021

[matt levin]

Thank you all for your responses-- I'm amazed: I really felt I was the lone curmudgeon, didn't want to rain on anyone's potential enjoyment, but gosh, darn it, yeah: meh. Done to, pardon the expression, death. So glad to find I'm not alone wondering 'does anyone even want this?' Heh. Well, not I, anyway, not I.

[Reviresco]

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...1-announcement


MacKay is doing pretty good job these days, so I am hopeful about the quality at the very least.

Oh great. The new Sorcerer Supreme will be Black Cat. Ugh.

This crap isn't even going to be about Dr. Strange. It's going to be about OTHER characters finding his murderer and stepping into his shoes. It sounds like that awfulness of Jason Aaron's Original Sin mini-series, which trashed Nick Fury so he could be shoved aside for Fury Jr. and even tried to mess up the Winter Soldier by sending him off to space as the retconned "man on the wall" nonsense.

I swear. I don't know why I bother reading modern comics anymore.

[PhoenixThanos]

Magneto kills Doctor Strange

[Clea]

Oh great. The new Sorcerer Supreme will be Black Cat. Ugh.

This crap isn't even going to be about Dr. Strange. It's going to be about OTHER characters finding his murderer and stepping into his shoes. It sounds like that awfulness of Jason Aaron's Original Sin mini-series, which trashed Nick Fury so he could be shoved aside for Fury Jr. and even tried to mess up the Winter Soldier by sending him off to space as the retconned "man on the wall" nonsense.

I swear. I don't know why I bother reading modern comics anymore.

Who killed Stephen Strange? Sounds like a game of Clue. Perhaps Wong did it in the Library with the Orb of Agamotto. Or maybe Clea killed him in the Study with the Flames of Faltine.

Marvel: the House of (we've run out of) Ideas.

[mreddie]

Oh great. The new Sorcerer Supreme will be Black Cat. Ugh.

This crap isn't even going to be about Dr. Strange. It's going to be about OTHER characters finding his murderer and stepping into his shoes. It sounds like that awfulness of Jason Aaron's Original Sin mini-series, which trashed Nick Fury so he could be shoved aside for Fury Jr. and even tried to mess up the Winter Soldier by sending him off to space as the retconned "man on the wall" nonsense.

I swear. I don't know why I bother reading modern comics anymore.

I don't think they'll go that overboard.

[Will Evans]

Remember when Dr Strange was the ONLY person in the Marvel Universe not to die, in the 60s storyline of how he earned the Sorcerer Supreme moniker?

I wouldn’t worry about his “death.” Stephen has actually battled the embodiment of Death and won before.

[SJNeal]

Am I the only one getting "What If...?" vibes from that solicit?

I don't think this is in continuity. Or at least I hope it's not.

[DigiCom]

Thank you all for your responses-- I'm amazed: I really felt I was the lone curmudgeon, didn't want to rain on anyone's potential enjoyment, but gosh, darn it, yeah: meh. Done to, pardon the expression, death. So glad to find I'm not alone wondering 'does anyone even want this?' Heh. Well, not I, anyway, not I.

I'm finding harder and harder NOT to be a curmudgeon...

Am I the only one getting "What If...?" vibes from that solicit?

I don't think this is in continuity. Or at least I hope it's not.

I'm pretty sure it is, based on this:

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...1-announcement

In particular this sort of language:

"This rousing journey will dive into the mythos behind Doctor Strange, showcasing his unique—and vital—position amongst Marvel’s heroes and ultimately transform the future."

Especially since they already DID a "Doctor Strange: The End" What-If last year.

[Frontier]

I do think it makes a morbid kind of sense that Marvel can't stop de-powering Strange so they may as well just kill him off at this point. Nothing else to do with him, right ?

[Shadowcat]

I’ve a feeling the new SS will be either Doom or Wanda.

[DigiCom]

I’ve a feeling the new SS will be either Doom or Wanda.

I'm holding out for Billy Kaplan.

[Shadowcat]

I'm holding out for Billy Kaplan.

Not yet. He needs more practice.

[Relugus]

I’ve a feeling the new SS will be either Doom or Wanda.

Wanda would have to actually appear in comics and have actual speech bubbles and appear in more than three panels for that to happen. That is not going to happen. She might get to be SS in a variant cover, of course, but that's about it.

The most likely candidates are Doom, Voodoo, Magik, Clea, Shaman, or Wiccan.

[mreddie]

Again, it'll be a fake out.

If not, it'll be an OC.

Regardless, NO.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I don't think they'll go that overboard.

Would you be willing to bet your next paycheck on that?