Stan Lee would have had his 100th birthday today! [Wikipedia]

[28 December 02022]

Strange #9 is out!

Preview at Comics Continuum

Comic Book Round Up collected reviews

Mark Chiarello variant cover

Full of catnip for Doc fans: Doc/Clea pillow talk, and the War of the Seven Spheres/Trinity of Ashes!

[21 December 02022]

Inside The AfterShock Comics Bankruptcy- $10m+ Owed, Staff Departures, More [Popverse] [news tag]

AfterShock Comics Files For Bankruptcy, Owes Creators Five Figure Sums [Bleeding Cool] [news tag]

Aftershock Comics Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy [The Beat] [news tag]

AfterShock Comics Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy [CBR] [news tag]

Updating links as found...

[20 December 02022]

Marvel's March 02023 solicitations include new Doctor Strange ongoing series

DOCTOR STRANGE #1
JED MACKAY (W)
PASQUAL FERRY (A)
Cover by ALEX ROSS
MARVEL ICON VARIANT COVER BY STEFANO CASELLI
VARIANT COVER BY MARCO CHECCHETTO
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY MARTIN COCCOLO
INFINITY SAGA PHASE 3 VARIANT COVER BY STEVE SKROCE
TIMELESS DORMAMMU VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
TIMELESS DORMAMMU VIRGIN SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
CHANGE YOUR REALITY!
Stephen Strange is back! Reunited with Clea and Wong, it's back to business as usual for the Sorcerer Supreme. Have your children fallen into a deep nightmarish slumber? Are demonic refugees invading your home? Is your husband possessed by a satanic entity? Then call Doctor Strange! Join Jed MacKay (MOON KNIGHT, BLACK CAT) and Pasqual Ferry (NAMOR: CONQUERED SHORES, SPIDER-MAN: SPIDERS SHADOW, THOR) as they begin a new chapter in the life of the Master of the Mystic Arts!
40 PGS./Rated T+ $4.99

[19 December 02022]

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness won "The Movie Of [0]2022" at the People's Choice Awards [Hollywood Reporter] [Wikipedia: 48th People's Choice Awards]

[18 December 02022]

Neil Gaiman And Guillermo Del Toro Wanted To Make A [0]1920s-Set Doctor Strange Movie

Neil Gaiman full interview with Josh Horowitz for Happy Sad Confused on YouTube

Link to Dr. Strange part of the interview; "back in 02007, having minimalist conversations with Kevin Feige"

Josh Horowitz tweet with interview snippet: "Wait, @neilhimself & @RealGDT pitched @Kevfeige a 1920s set DOCTOR STRANGE film?"

Blog redux: Neilalien blogged it in November 02015:

When Marvel Wasn't Interested In A Neil Gaiman/Guillermo Del Toro Doctor Strange Movie... [Bleeding Cool]

Neil Gaiman tweet November 02015: "I still wish Marvel had been interested in a @RealGDT & me Dr Strange movie, because I wanted to write Clea so badly after 1602."

Wonder what Gaiman thinks of Clea in the recent Strange?

The new piece of information is it being set in the 01920's.

The two of them pitched an idea of having Doctor Strange become the master of the mystic arts sometime in the late [0]1920s or [0]1930s in Greenwich Village, where he would have stayed for the past 90 years, unaging and unnoticed by those around him. Gaiman described their take on the character as a man 'out of time,' while also calling the adaptation 'very Steve Ditko.'

Many fans share this insight: #DoctorSTRANGE is NOT a "contemporary" man. [Sanctum]

[14 December 02022]

New Doctor Strange ongoing series in March!

Writer Jed MacKay continuing; artist Pasqual Ferry; Alex Ross covers

The Master Of The Mystic Arts Returns To Reshape Your Reality In New 'Doctor Strange' Series [Marvel.com]

Marvel Resurrects Doctor Strange For A New Ongoing Series

Doctor Strange Is Back From The Dead And The Sorcerer Supreme Again In A New Ongoing Title

[13 December 02022]

Marvel's January 02023 and February 02023 solicits include:

STRANGE #10
JED MACKAY (W)
MARCELO FERREIRA (A)
Cover by Lee Garbett
Demonized Variant Cover by TBA
Classic Homage Variant Cover by IBAN COELLO
Games Variant Cover by NETEASE
SORCERERS SUPREME UNITE!
Clea and Stephen Strange team up to take down the Blasphemy Cartel and their dreaded super-powered weapon! But will two Sorcerers Supreme be enough for this final battle? And what will finally become of Stephen Strange by the end of it? As one chapter closes, a new one is about to begin in the house of Strange...
32 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99

No Strange #11 solicit for February...

DOCTOR STRANGE: FALL SUNRISE #3 (OF 4)
TRADD MOORE (W)
TRADD MOORE (A/C)
Variant Cover by KRIS ANKA
Variant Cover by Paulina Ganucheau
Doctor Strange is pulled in every direction by powerful figures while millions of lives rest in the balance- including his own! Yalda, Sophia, Bythos or himself: who should Strange serve? Who can he trust? Can this world's deadly ritual be stopped? Or is the answer simply... BLOOD? Heaven help us; it must be blood.
40 PGS./Rated T+ $4.99

DOCTOR STRANGE: FALL SUNRISE #4 (OF 4)
TRADD MOORE (W)
TRADD MOORE (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY CHASE CONLEY
Planet of the Apes Variant Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
Doctor Strange enters the cursed castle of Moriah Mensa to challenge a superlunary power and complete an impossible task. As the sun sets, a voice echoes, "There are no good places to die."
40 PGS./Rated T+ $4.99

MIDNIGHT SUNS #5 (OF 5)
ETHAN SACKS (W)
LUIGI ZAGARIA (A)
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
VARIANT COVER BY KYLE HOTZ
Game Variant Cover also available
SINS OF THE PAST!
The MIDNIGHT SUNS were fated to rise... but in the end, are they destined to stop the apocalypse- or start it?! Only AGATHA HARKNESS knows the truth, but the mistakes of her past have finally caught up to her. She has a terrible choice to make- one that will change her forever, one that may doom ZOE LAVEAU and NICO MINORU- IF THEY and the Suns manage to survive... THE RITUAL!
32 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99

[12 December 02022]

Dr. Strange May Have 'Lived' For Over 30,000 Years According To This Theory

Redditor TheCloakOfLevitation: "If Doctor Strange spent 1 day in each of the 14,000,605 possible futures and 20 second in each Dormammu Loop (assuming he did it 1000 times) that would make him an additional 38,331 Years 207 Days and 11 Hours years old mentally"; with discussion

Doctor Strange Spent A Ridiculous Amount Of Time Looking Through Time In Avengers: Infinity War: Thousands of Years [not the first time it's been discussed; another Redditor CleverDevil estimating Doc spent three hours each in 14 million timelines]

Doctor Strange's Glimpses Into The Future Were Probably Excruciating, According To The Russos ["He has to physically live them and then die in each of them... and take copious notes each time"]

Doc sitting there on Titan with his head zipping around (for how long? an hour? five minutes until Mantis notices?) suggests he is simply scanning timelines at an accelerated rate. His actual movie line was "view" "outcomes"- so not living entire timelines, just taking peeks at the ends? But how much time actually passed for Doc, and what did he experience, and how did he experience it? The Time Stone is omnipotent so it could have been anything. Did he scan all the timelines fast-forwarding videos one after the other? Or did he observe all the timelines all at the same time- like watching a wall of TVs in The Matrix movies- until one screen remained on? Or did he have to fully live them all out- not just scan/observe- in his mind- in real time- one after the other? Did he experience death 14 million times- over thousands of years? Math says he died with the Thanos Snap half of the time, and lived longer for half (if Thanos doesn't kill him before the Snap). How long did he experience each future before confirming Thanos won and moving on to the next? Did it only take spending a few milliseconds per timeline, three hours, a day, years, to confirm Thanos won? How many timelines had five-year Blips and how were they experienced and handled?- you can't just move on to the next timeline after reaching a Snap if some will later become Blips and undone. How does his brain remember all that time- or he took "copious notes" as he lived each life- or he only needs to deep-dive into a winning timeline once it's found and remember how that one happened? And how long was that Dormammu Loop anyway, and how many times did Doc die in that? Add in overcoming Death/the forehead-ankh thing. Add in 5,000 years for the War of Seven Spheres. How much time has Dr. Strange experienced? And how many of his own deaths?

[11 December 02022]