LAST OF HER KIND! LAST HOPE FOR EARTH! AMI HAN is the last of the mystical shape-shifting KUMIHO. As the WHITE FOX, she’s defended Earth from every threat and proven herself again and again alongside the Agents of Atlas and Tiger Division. But the DEATH OF DOCTOR STRANGE will test her like never before. Something (or someone) is murdering innocents and the only suspect who fits the profile is White Fox! She’ll have to clear her name and uncover the dark secrets from her mysterious origin while the very planet is under siege. Ami can have the answers she so desperately seeks, or she can save her friends. Guest-starring SWORD MASTER and more
Andie Tong and Luciana Vecchio share art duties on The Death of Doctor Strange: White Fox, which leads to some visual incongruity in spaces. Their art isnt analogous enough that one could read the issue and not notice a switch-up from page to page, but it otherwise doesnt totally disturb the flow of the issue. Tongs art is appropriately more Eastern flavored, particularly in some sequences that depict Amis backstory in a manner meant to evoke scroll paintings, while Vecchios pages have his characteristic cartoon-like style. Arif Priantos colors do a good job of melding the two into a mostly-cohesive whole, with fairly realistic shading techniques that add a nice dimension to scenes. Read Full Review
Very interesting concept using some very underutilized characters in my opinion conceptually this is a battle between their past and history instead of just pitting them against some random idealistic villain. Read Full Review
For all of its flaws, it's difficult not to appreciate The Death of Doctor Strange: White Fox #1 even more for its merits as it carves a space for these barely known new heroes. Read Full Review
There are definitely problems here. As usual, when Marvel's growing roster of API heroes come out, the creators are obliged -- not without reason -- to do a lot of background exposition. I really like the way that all the background on the protagonists becomes plot-relevant in the climactic battle, though. The art is overall well-done, but the two artists' styles don't match well. That this adventure has serious consequences for the protagonists and their status quos is what nudges this over the line into "good comics" territory for me.
The cover doesn't look bad but it also doesn't look great either. 1/2 The art is a cool mix of the two artists that works really well. 1.5/2 The dialogue is average with a heart-to-heart moment that is very impactful. 1.5/2 The story is able to be predicted a mile away, which leads to a boring and not fun story. 1/2 The characters felt very flat throughout the whole comic. 1/2
This isn't great. This is mostly picking up the pieces of that failed Sword Master comic, with a little bit of the breadcrumbs from White Fox's various appearances. It's weird what they're trying so hard to do here. Eventually it might work. Maybe?
Alyssa Wong cannot write a good story, she just can't.
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