Should there be a new Dr. Strange book?!


Question: I think that Marvel should publish a new Dr. Strange book. But I don't think they should get Bendis or any of those new guys to write it. I think it should be written by James Robinson (the guy from the good Starman series). And Leonardo Manco (the guy from Hellblazer and Werewolf by Night) should do the pencils. And to top it off and make it interesting they should buy the copyrights for the old Valiant/Acclaim comics so that Master Darque could be the main antagonist. What do you think?


Answers: I think that Marvel should publish a new Dr. Strange book. But I don't think they should get Bendis or any of those new guys to write it. I think it should be written by James Robinson (the guy from the good Starman series). And Leonardo Manco (the guy from Hellblazer and Werewolf by Night) should do the pencils. And to top it off and make it interesting they should buy the copyrights for the old Valiant/Acclaim comics so that Master Darque could be the main antagonist. What do you think?

No. Stan Lee himself said a major inspiration for Dr. Strange was Chandu the Magician. You can listen to many episodes of that series on line for free or buy cds. i recommend doing so (it was a radio serial). I basically grew up on the Dan Adkins/Gene Colan/Frank Brunner Dr. Stranges, and was a huge Barry Smith fan at the time so enjoyed those. As I discovered the earlier ones I respected them more and more. Roy Thomas definitely understood the original context of these stories. Steve Englehart was revolting against it, but intelligently. Adkins, Smith, Brunner and Ditko were great designers. Colan and Marie Severin drew extremely well -- but their work wasn't always quite as popular for good reason.

Dr. Strange is most powerful when, far from being a horror book, it is a somewhat sunny heroic fantasy. None of this dark stuff for the hero.

Back in the sixties some Ditko and Adkins panels formed the basis of black-light posters pot-heads used to keep on their wall. Most of the work that appealed to drug users had very strong design elements (Victor Moscoso, who worked for Zap Comics, taught at a local art school). If Ditko attacked abstract art in one of those personal superhero stories he did for Charlton, he showed by his drawing that visually at least he had a good understanding of it.

Nothing I've seen recently from Marvel -- including the last Dr. Strange stories -- suggests they have any real interest in the time-bound elements that the original Dr. Strange creators wove into such memorable epics. Simply. And Leonardo Manco, aside from having worked on so much dark stuff, is a better renderer than designer, so that doesn't sound interesting. Jae Lee might be fun.

No, the world has had enough of that stupidity!

If they could get a decent writer who has the smallest idea of what Doctor Strange should be and how his world revolves and how he acts, etc then yes. I think Marvel should give Doctor Strange another go. His series in the 80's was very good, especially his encounters with Dracula.



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