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October 02022

Strange #7 was out 26 October!

Comic Book Round Up collected reviews

Variant cover regime; liking the Luciano Vecchio

A lovenote to the love of Stephen and Clea. But they can't touch [insert eyes welling up emoji here]!... They battle a revenant Goliath. More info is revealed about the Blasphemy Cartel- and how Clea is a wild card for them, while their files on Doc are measured in tons. The path back to the living for Doc is elucidated- if he ends the revenant disrespect for Death.

Also out: Midnight Suns #1-2

(Didn't it used to be "Sons"?)

Magik is on the team, along with Blade, Wolverine, Spirit Rider (a time-tossed Ghost Rider and previous Sorcerer Supreme), Runaway Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm (but without her Staff), Zoe Laveau (undead Strange Academy student and a descendant of Doc foe Marie), and Agatha Harkness (the elderly comics one; not the MCU one; although we do see a younger version in a flashback to 1428). A world-wide mystical vision shows Zombie Zoe bringing on the apocalypse- which brings them together- along with a Dr. Doom attack to deal with the girl his own way. More bad-ass Clea appears- and deals with the girl her own way- banishing the Suns to the Dark Dimension.

Doctor Strange's Successor Proves She's Basically Already A Supervillain

Warrior-mage Sorcerer Supreme Clea has been a bad-ass, has alienated the X-Men, banished the Midnight Suns, even Death can't tell her what to do, etc. How will it resolve? Our culture's track record of writing strong women characters without the heel turn, without them "going insane" can be spotty (thinking of Dany in Game of Thrones, Scarlet Witch in the MCU, etc.)? We shall see...

[30 October 02022]

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Marvel Comics December 02022 solicits include:

STRANGE #9
JED MACKAY (W)
MARCELO FERREIRA (A)
Cover by Lee Garbett
Variant Cover by MARK CHIARELLO
STEPHEN STRANGE IS ALIVE!
Clea is finally reunited with her husband, Stephen. But it's a bittersweet reunion, as the Blasphemy Cartel unleash their deadliest weapon yet... What is it? More like WHO is it?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99

DOCTOR STRANGE: FALL SUNRISE #2 (OF 4)
TRADD MOORE (W)
TRADD MOORE (A/C)
Variant Cover by IAN BERTRAM
Variant Cover by JAMES HARREN
Doctor Strange joins forces with an all-new set of mystical heroes! But the treacherous Knights of the Body mean to make corpses of them all! BEWARE! What fresh terror awaits our heroes in the masked city of Sanc Nistos? A red river runs through the barbed bowels of the Body Machine, and all we have to hold onto are fragments and fearful chances!
40 PGS./Rated T+ $4.99

STRANGE ACADEMY: FINALS #3
DOCTOR STRANGE EPIC COLLECTION: NIGHTMARE ON BLEECKER STREET TPB
Collecting DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME #48-61 and ANNUAL #3; MORBIUS: THE LIVING VAMPIRE (1992) #9; and material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #146 and MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990) #12, and #14.

[10 October 02022]

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