DARK WEDDING BELLS RINGING! Strange and Clea have been invited to an interdimensional wedding. But when the bride is Clea's own mother, Umar the Unrelenting, it's not exactly the family event the Stranges want to attend. Especially when the guests are mysteriously being murdered!
Rated T+
Doctor Strange #5 is a confrontation of control. It takes the highly anticipated wedding and turns it into an intense, uncomfortable showdown between the most powerful magical beings without them even fighting one another. Read Full Review
Various threads from three series over the past three years begin to converge as Doctor Strange #5 takes a huge leap forward in the overall magical storylines. A colorful engaging series just gets better and better with every issue, bringing great life to a section of Marvel that can often be overlooked. Read Full Review
Doctor Strange #5 is the strongest entry in the series thus far and ends on a dramatic cliffhanger. Read Full Review
Doctor Strange #5 starts with a frustratingly pointless stinger but then devolves into a great story that ends on an awesome cliffhanger. Pasqual Ferrys art looks beautiful here, especially paired with the voice that Jed MacKay gives Doctor Strange. Read Full Review
Even without the major twist at the end, this issue checks all of boxes of a killer Doctor Strange comic. Read Full Review
Ferry delivers some beautiful art in the issue. The visuals have a wonderful, other-worldly look to them as if everything is made of mist and it works really well with the characters and the story being told. Read Full Review
About The Reviewer: Gabriel Hernandez is the Publisher & EIC of ComicalOpinions.com, a comics review site dedicated to indie, small, and mid-sized publishers. Read Full Review
Doctor Strange #5 has Stephen and Clea come for the wedding of Umar and the warlord Tiboro, but readers came for the wedding crashers. The art and character banter are what sell this comic since most of it is character conversations until a little after the halfway point. Of course, the real show stealer is the big reveal of the main villain for this story arc. And mileage will vary from reader to reader since it's an idea that's been overdone, to put it mildly, in Marvel Comics. Hopefully, the next issue really sells the idea of the main villain in spectacular fashion. Read Full Review
This latest plot twist owes a lot to Doctor Who. Like, enough to criticize it for the similarity, if you want to.
Me? I like Doctor Who and I like this comic.
The art is gorgeous and magical, the pace is good, and the dialogue is full of wit and snark. Stephen and Clea come across as smart, insightful people, even as the plot catches them flat-footed.
(Speaking of homages, based on what I know of Jed MacKay's tastes, I bet it's no accident that the Stranges sound a lot like Nick and Nora Charles here.)
I remain fully engaged and eager to find out what happens next.
The quality of this series is back up as we return to Stephen and Clea. This was another well-written issue for MacKay, something he isn't a stranger (no pun intended) to whatsoever. Clea being sprung with a magically-created sister in the near future is intriguing and I'm sure that's gonna come back up at some point. Maybe she'll become or be destined to become a threat Stephen just like her parents? We'll have to see, but whatever MacKay has cooking is sure to be good. He's been putting out awesome work with all three of his current ongoings, this one included of course. I still think this title could use an artist change, but Ferry seems to be on the series until at least Issue 9, with Juan Gedeon working as a guest artist in the next is more
I already dropped this title, but decided to pick this issue up because of Clea's mom. I'm a fan of her fiestiness. The banter was really good. This was the best issue in the run thus far. However, the reveal at the end completely let me down. So, I won't be adding this back into my draw list.
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