Original Sin #5-6 reveal Nick Fury's watcher-on-the-wall secret history of Howard-Stark-recruited galactic wetwork protecting the Earth
from alien invasion, Old Gods in the Netherworld, etc. [The Beat review]
They gave Dr. Strange's lunch to Nick Fury, haven't they? This should have been Dr. Strange's secret history!
At least against the mystical and other-dimensional threats. When Fury says he wants one of those assembled to replace him,
Doc should have replied, "I literally already have this job", instead of the naive blah-blah.
This cool idea- now given to superspy Nick Fury-
"we don't know everything Dr. Strange has had to do to protect us as Sorcerer Supreme, and it wasn't all pretty"-
Colonel Jessup on the mystical wall,
an unfathomable greater responsibility, a grotesque and incomprehensible existence that saves lives-
mines Strange's actual history, and is arguably better than anything that's been tried in the last ten years to darken-modernize Strange-
from Chosen One origin revamps, to the entire there-and-back-again with Brother Voodoo,
to brooding incompetent and Illuminati mass-murderer, to creep and jar-room mass-murderer, now to soul-seller for power.
Speaking of: New Avengers #20 reveals Doctor Strange was unable to sell his soul for ultimate power in #14- he "lacked
the full measure of one" for sufficient payment (so we definitely have a 'soul-problem' for Doc- maybe related to Waid's item
in his Strange miniseries?). The non-sale is a relief for Neilalien- four-color morality is not needed, but Doc selling his soul
for god-like power felt too dark and stupid-risky; he's supposed to be a hero, and wise. But it's not like Doc smartened up-
he just didn't have a soul to sell. But Doc still has other dark and mass-murderer avenues to pursue:
It appears he's using the Blood Bible ("no spell in the Blu'Dakorr has ever not caused the death of the caster" [New Avengers #4])
to unleash Shuma Gorath (?- or something else from the genus Tentacles) ("through" him- paralleling how the Ancient
One originally died?) on the Great Society's universe to save 616. [Hilarious: Norn reverted to Harry Potter- or DC's Books of
Magic kid Timothy Hunter.]
[19 July 02014]
New Marvel publishing initiative Avengers NOW! promo image includes a female Thor (announced on The View talk show- using ABC/Disney/Marvel synergy for mainstream press),
a black Captain America (Sam "Falcon" Wilson; announced on The Colbert Report), a new Superior Iron Man suit, an Agents-of-SHIELD-style Deathlok, and Ant-Man and Dr. Strange clearly getting some pre-movie attention
[Entertainment Weekly]
[update: temporary Thor/Cap diversity changes give starving hopeful non-white-male comics fans temporary sense of belonging]
[18 July 02014]
New Avengers Annual #1 is a tour-de-force dark Doctor Strange story from writer Frank Barbiere and artist Marco Rudy
[CBR review: "an insightful character piece focused on Stephen Strange...
investigates Strange's compulsion to be successful from the sorcerer's pre-magical history and his current endeavors... gorgeous art that defies traditional layouts and style"]
[CBR Forum discussion]
[Outright Geekery review]
[Geeked Out Nation review: 9.5 out of 10]
[PopMatters review]
[Comic Vine review]
[IGN review]
[Cosmic Book News review]
[update: AV Club: New Avengers Annual shows why Dr. Strange could be Marvel's next big hero]
[12 July 02014]
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