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Big Jason Aaron interview re: writing the upcoming new Dr. Strange ongoing series, saying all the right things and many refreshing things ["I figured, 'Well if there's a movie coming up, we're going to be doing a Doctor Strange book before too much longer'... I don't think we need a huge set of rules for magic. For me, there's just one rule that's very important, and that's that everything that Strange does has to have a cost... I don't want a Doctor Strange who is a deus ex machina... He is paying a toll for doing what he does, but he's not a guy who goes around dreary and grim all the time... He's a weird, fun and quirky guy... He's not a creepy womanizer... Chris and I both wanted him to be a more physical hero, not just a guy who shows up, strikes a pose and shoots energy blasts... We're not completely reinventing Strange's supporting cast, but we are expanding it a little bit... We want to start putting them together and build this kind of Algonquin Round Table of magic users... establishing this group of Doctor Strange's peers... his rogues gallery should consist of not just otherworldly spirits, but human foes as well... At times it will be a fun maybe more light hearted action romp, and at other times it will be a pretty dark, scary, and gnarly book with very real emotional weight to it... excited and anxious to give [Chris Bachalo] as much crazy stuff to draw as I possibly can... We'll see him making house calls... [but] He's also a guy, though, who is walking a beat."] [Aaron owes us after giving Dr. Strange's job to Nick Fury and Winter Soldier in Original Sin...] [Jason Aaron Twitter] [Jason Aaron Website]

Update: Marvel October 02015 Solicits:
DOCTOR STRANGE #1
JASON AARON (w)
CHRIS BACHALO (a/C)
HIP-HOP VARIANT COVER BY JUAN DOE
COSPLAY VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
YOUNG VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
VARIANT COVER BY KEVIN NOWLAN
VARIANT COVER BY TOM PALMER
VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
KIRBY MONSTER VARIANT COVER BY ERICA HENDERSON
Who do you call when things are coming out of your dreams and trying to kill you? Or when your daughter is cursing in Latin and walking like a spider? Or when your dog keeps screaming at you to strangle your neighbors? Doctor Strange, of course. He's the only person standing between us and the forces of darkness, but has he been paying his tab? Every act of magic has a cost and Jason Aaron (THOR, ORIGINAL SIN) and Chris Bachalo (UNCANNY X-MEN) are going to put Stephen Strange through hell to even the scales.
40 PGS./Rated T+ $4.99

Update: For Every Action There's Reaction in Marvel's Doctor Strange [another Aaron interview; on PreviewsWorld]

[31 July 02015]

The 616 version of Dr. Strange dies standing up to God Doom in Secret Wars #4 [Shocking Twist Shakes Up Marvel's Secret Wars] [Secret Wars 02015: Part 4- Doctor Strange] [Deadshirt] [Outhousers] [CBR] [IGN] [Comicosity] [mostly very positive reviews for the event at the halfway mark, and selling well] [Doc should have been more a fifth column than a Doom kool-aid drinker, and there until the very end with a more meaningful, potent, and shocking betrayal of Doom] [17 July 02015]

An 8-year-old fan wrote Steve Ditko a letter, and here's how Ditko responded [5 July 02015]

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