Neilalien : A Doctor Strange Fansite : A Comic Book Weblog  

New Marvel Legends Cards from Topps coming out in the spring. Doctor Strange better be included!

Posted 30 October 02000 - Permalink

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I know that anyone who might read a Doctor Strange weblog is scratching their head saying, "What is a DC?" but this series of articles about Crisis On Infinite Earths has kept my attention:

Posted 30 October 02000 - Permalink

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Defenders #1 Comics On Sale blurb at the Marvel website. Here's the blurb for the Day of the Defenders Megazine.

Posted 29 October 02000 - Permalink

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I have to completely agree with this review of Marvel Knights #6. As I've blogged before, this series did not really pass my three-issue test- but Doc is appearing soon, and I do like the characters (especially Cloak and Dagger and Moon Knight), so I just kept it on. Characterization and cool non-team interaction is absent. The Punisher is coming off as very incompetent while gunfighting two bulletproof extraterrestrials lately. Heroes need good villians to be good reading, and street-level heroes need street-level villains. And Shang Chi is a non-entity (except he was at least competent against Weaponmaster). I'm not hopeful for a good Doc story arc anymore.

PS- A letter writer requests the Shroud for this book. I second the motion.

This review of Marvel Knights #6 at IGN is positive.

Posted 26 October 02000 - Permalink

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Classic Doctor Strange artist Frank Brunner might be returning to comics.

Posted 25 October 02000 - Permalink

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Neilalien Honored

Hey, cool! Neilalien is one of the weblogs mentioned in We Didn't Start the Weblogs. Thanks, Nikolai.

Posted 24 October 02000 - Permalink

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Not much overt Doctor Strange news lately. I needed a little breather. I've been too busy to even surf for any potential closely-related content, either. The lack of news must be the calm before the storm- before the Marvel Knights story arc, the Defenders written by Busiek, and the Defenders reprint Megazine. It's fun to have so much Doc to look forward to, for once.

Actually, I forgot, there has totally been activity here these past couple weeks. I posted the Doctor Strange Story List, and I applied to get into a Marvel Comics Webring.

Posted 24 October 02000 - Permalink

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Would your 20-50% Marvel-display-space comics shop survive the year if Marvel went under? [Warren Ellis Come In Alone]

We Need Another Hero [Salon]
Alan Moore attempts to save comicdom with the ABC books.

Huge Alan Moore interview [Blather]

Posted 18 October 02000 - Permalink

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Yesterday's Comic Wire reports:

"They don't call it the House of Ideas for nothin': "Marvel will be releasing an 80 page "Megazine" on January 10, the same day the new "Defenders" #1 is slated to ship, featuring a meeting between Dr. Strange and Namor from 'Sub-Mariner' #22, a Dr. Strange/Hulk story from 'Incredible Hulk' #126 and all three original Defenders together from the pages of 'Marvel Feature' #1."

Sweet! I only have a reading copy of Hulk #126, so it will be great to revisit the other stories.

Also mentioned in Fandom's Daily Feed and Hero Realm News.

Posted 11 October 02000 - Permalink

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Analysis: Marvel in danger of running out of cash by end of year; crushing debt, bleeding money, plummeting stock price [Individualinvestor.com]

I realize, that by being a Doctor Strange fan, and endlessly wishing for a Doc movie, or at least a new Doc comic book series, or at least competent cameo appearances in other character's books, and blogging about comic books and a comic book character, that you must think that I live in la-la land. Unfortunately for my bliss, I do not. For my own education, and the education of my readers, it's time that I started covering the big white elephant in the middle of the room a lot more, instead of giving people the impression that a serious problem doesn't exist or that I don't see it. That elephant being Marvel Comics' financial position, which is in the toilet. It's come to border on the ridiculous to write, even if only in a book review, that the biggest threat to Dr. Strange is Dormammu, misuse by writers, or underuse by Marvel editors, given the "meta" situation. Marvel going out of business is the biggest threat to Dr. Strange- and to the entire comic shop network and comic book industry, and comic books. The speculation crunch and Ron Perelman will do what Baron Mordo never could. At least the doomsday scenario still involves licensing the Marvel comics division out to another large publisher. I can't believe that Marvel comic books and characters would just disappear off the face of the planet. But if a company can't stay afloat selling those comics, toys, movies, Underoos, etc., that's what will happen. I could almost coyly say that it doesn't matter to us Doc fans, because Doc has already disappeared off the face of the planet. But his return if ever depends on Marvel surviving and getting its financial house in order. We have a major Marvel Knights story arc and the Defenders coming up. Yay! But that's a subdued Yay today. Did I start blogging Dr. Strange and comic books earlier this year only to document their death, the day they go the way of Ibis The Invincible and the stereopticon? Comicon.com Splash has been the most consistent over the past months re: coverage of Marvel's financial situation. Go there, start to learn.

Posted 11 October 02000 - Permalink

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See a big color version of the new Defenders [Fandom.com]

Posted 9 October 02000 - Permalink

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Matt Wagner talks up Marvel's Ultimate Team-Up book in today's Comics Continuum, which re-mentions that P. Craig Russell will be drawing a team-up between Ultimate Spidey and Doctor Strange.

Meanwhile, in today's Daily Feed at Fandom, Brian Bendis isn't revealing the treatment that established characters entering the Ultimate books will get. Tweaked origins? Young again? Completely revamped? Debuts? First time meetings?

Posted 6 October 02000 - Permalink

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