THE SORCERER SUPREME OF DEATH! Clea and Wong have uncovered who is behind the zombie resurrections of the deceased heroes and villains. But they're going to need all the help they can get, including from the Sorcerer Supreme of Death...the Harvestman!
Rated T+
When the new Strange series began it seemed like it was going to be just a bridge between new Doctor Strange comics, one that filled a gap between publishing initiatives. Writer Jed MacKay and artist Marcelo Ferreira have taken that building block and built it up even more though, creating what's a unique new take on the larger idea of magic in the Marvel Universe. Read Full Review
Cleas turn in the center of the series seems to be drawing to a close. Its really too bad. The warrior mage from the dark dimension is great fun when shes given a chance to work with Jed MacKay. The writer doesnt even have to do a whole lot with the action around the edges to keep Clea moving appealingly through the series. Dr. Strange is working for Death. This should come across as A LOT more compelling than it does. A lot of the lifelessness of that premise comes from the fact that Clea is as cool as she is. Read Full Review
Love knows no bounds, not even between life and death, as ‘Strange' brings two Sorcerers Supreme together again as they save the world and hash out some personal issues. Every issue of this series balances the personal and the magical and the action of these types of stories while expertly building a visually distinctive and beautiful magical realm to play within. Read Full Review
Ferreira delivers some powerfully energetic and detailed throughout the issue. The visuals are stunning and I love both the action and the emotion displayed in the pages. Read Full Review
Buy this one for the cover alone! Clea is The Sorcerer Supreme. Whether Strange assumes that monikeror not is neither here nor there! She is a woman on a mission, and I loved getting to know this characterand what every other reader of Strange may already know. Hell and death know no fury like Clea! Read Full Review
While Strange was giving me what I wanted for several issues, the introduction of Stephen into it shifts the narrative and leaves my excitement about the book a bit deflated. That combined with it being so decompressed as it is here isn't help at all either. It's still a really good-looking book with what it does and there are some great moments with how Clea handles herself, but it's just working through something too easy and familiar. I'm curious to see how things go with Death in this eventually but I'm also curious to see how Wong and those that reside at the Sanctum deal with the information. It should be interesting to say the least. Read Full Review
Finally I realize that this script structure -- big splashy fight scene with dialogue/monologue in captions on top of it -- is Jed MacKay's favorite party trick. He's very good at it, but he needs the support of a very good artist to really nail it.
He's got that support here. Marcelo Ferreira's whirling, dynamic art (and expressive faces) easily pick up the storytelling slack while the author turns the words to Clea's inner monologue.
It looks great, it sounds great. The one shortcoming is that, as well as it's done, this issue's share of plot development is pretty small.
Clea and Stephen fight a monster and defeat it by working in unison. The most memorable part of this issue is Clea's conviction. Her "Stand by her man" conversation was great. Of course, we have seen the "I love you, but I can't touch you" story arc before. It was seasons 2 and 3 of Dark Angel in the 90s and then again in Bond. Can we do something new?
MacKay does some decent work, and Ferreira, who has until now been the series's weakest link, turns in a very solid issue. But I'm still not entirely convinced — in particular, Steven's explanation of why he kept his identity secret until the dramatically appropriate moment feels like a stock excuse to justify the pacing rather than the emotional bulldozers of MacKay's best moments. This isn't by any stretch a bad comic, but I want so much more from one of my favorite writers doing one of my favorite characters
So happy to see Clea reunited with her man. The next step is to save him!
It start to drag a little bit, of course doctor strange is coming back, I knew it already but there is no more suspense. Art still good, I just start caring less.
This has been a disappointing run to me, and this is the worsyt issue to date.
Dropped.
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