Gather Doctor Strange: Season One Developed By Greg Pak Version
that was fun. Maybe a little predictable, but otherwise the art was good and the character interaction was interesting, I'm not sure if I got the bad guy or nothe seems to be the one size fits all sort.
I've been aware of Doctor Strange's origin story, but I don't think I've ever read it in comic form before, so I can't really compare this update to its predecessors.
I can evaluate it on its own merits, and it's a pretty good story, The writing is clever, and the story works overall, It's difficult to take a character through an arc from completely selfish to an altruistic crusader over roughlyodd pages of comic, but the writer does a decent job of it.
The art was not as much to my taste, but was OK,
It's interesting that this was the first of the Season One stories I've read to not have an obvious "we're in thest Century now" moment somewhere in it.
Aside from a single glimpse of a flat panel TV, this story could have been set any time in the past fifty years.
Like the other Season One stories, it fails in the sense that it makes me want to go out and read something that doesn't exist: the further adventures of Strange and Wong with their mentor the Ancient One.
Unlike other Season One books, the backup story is one that actually intrigued me, but only because I am already familiar with the Defenders.
Anyone coming to this without that background would be confused by the appearance of all these other characters that had no place in the origin story they just read.
Overall, a decent addition to the Season One library, even if I still fail to see the
ultimate purpose of this line.
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A more than decent retelling of Dr Strange's origin story, and Wong as a rival turning friend later was a nice touch, but the mangastyle like art was really not much my cup of tea.
The first story about Dr, Stranges origin was OK, though I enjoyed the art of it very much as it was interesting and full of details.
The second story or more like a teaser of it wasn't that promising and I also disliked the art, so I doubt I will read it wholy if I happen to see the rest of it somewhere.
This was probably translated into Finnish because of the upcoming movie, but still, good that it was done, An ok story, partly salvaged by some spectacular art, If you're just looking for a basic origin story for Doctor Strange, there's probably worse ways to get it.
I suppose it's possible that the upcoming movie would take some cues from this glorified fetch quest, but hopefully not too many.
Doctor Stephen Strange seeks out the Ancient One for the magic to heal his hands,
After speaking to the Ancient One and an encounter with Baron Mordo, Stephen decides to stay and train.
After learning of magical rings Stephen and Wong head out to secure them with the help of a young woman.
Dr. Strange Season One seems like a different Dr, Strange story. Clearly the story is being reinvisioned, but I'm not familiar enough with his original story to know how much is different or the same.
The biggest surprise for me is that Wong is not only a student of the ancient one, but that he's so antagonistic towards Stephen.
This story read like an extra magic version of the Lord of the Rings, enough that the author jokingly calls their female companion their hobbit on multiple occasions.
Dr. Strange Season One is an OK story, but I'm not sure it provides the most accurate portrayal of Dr.
Strange and Wong. By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, has Greg Pak ever written a decent comic!
Even though Doctor Stranges origins seem to be covered in every Doctor Strange book, Pak goes over it again because this is a Marvel Season One comic Is this series aimed at new readers.
Stephen Strange was once a worldfamous surgeon whose hands got maimed in an accident, He goes searching for magic healers in the Himalayas, ends up learning magic and, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, becomes the Earths Sorcerer Supreme.
Ever wonder how he and his assistant Wong met Me neither! But get this: they didnt like each other at first! By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, has this story been done before I dont Hoggoththink so! So Strange, Wong and Arbitrary Female Character go looking for magic rings while Stranges enemy Mordo hangs back in the wings like a good villain, and predictably attacks Strange at the end, cementing Strange and Wongs friendship and Stranges status as a “worthy” mage.
Throw in some magicsounding words Agamotto, Vishanti, Dormammu and, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, you can slap a bow on this puppy, its good to Hoggoth!
Paks script is about as simplistic and obvious as you can get.
Strange is the reluctant hero, initially studying magic to regain his former life where he was a wealthy, arrogant twerp, but relearns the initial reason he got into medicine in the first place: helping people, and he can do this more as the Sorcerer Supreme.
Hoggoth fart.
Strange and Wongs antagonist relationship is corny as hell, Mordo is the villain which means he does standard unsurprising bad guy stuff because thats what hes supposed to do, and, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, Pak likes sprinkling “by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth!” on nearly every page which, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, doesnt get annoying, right!
The only reason to read this one is for Emma Rios art which is quite lovely.
She also drew the slightly better Strange: The Doctor is Out! by Mark Waid and you can see how her styles developed since then.
Its much less mangay, less polishedlooking and more interesting, and more along the lines of her work on Pretty Deadly.
By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, she looks like shes really having fun drawing these swirling, fantastical magical splash pages! They look totally fantastic and awesome, elevating the book to lustrous heights that it doesnt deserve given Paks flat writing.
Because this is onlypages, Marvel throw in an issue of Matt Fraction/Terry Dodsons Defenders to beef it up to a more respectable length.
Its got some scenes with Doctor Strange in but otherwise its Hulkcentric and kinda boring,
There dont appear to any truly great Doctor Strange books out there but Brian K Vaughan/Marcos Martins The Oath and the aforementioned Waid/Rios book are both better than this tedious comic by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, try either of those over Doctor Strange: Season One! I really enjoyed this! It had been sitting on my shelf for far too long amp I'm glad I decided to give it a go.
I loved the characters amp the story line amp the illustrations were perfection, A windowcrashing, highflying, globetraveling, ghostbattling adventure from the earliest days of Doctor Stranges training in the mystic arts! Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, thrill to this new tale of how a selfish, arrogant surgeon collided with a hotheaded martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts have ever seen! This one is more of a. but I'm nothing if not generous,
I enjoyed the art, and having never read any of the Strange comics before, was fascinated by the origin and wondering how it'd play out in an upcoming movie we're all interested in.
So, one part selfish, two parts willing, and another part destiny, Does that make the character fairly convincing Possibly, I'm probably going to need to read a lot more, probably version, before I can make a convincing judgement as to whether I like him.
Dr. Stephen Strange is a brilliant surgeon, but hes also selfish and arrogant, After a car accident screws up his hands he turns to magic hoping for way to recover his old skills, but as a student of the Ancient One he is forced to choose sides against the evil Mordo.
Strange races to find three powerful rings and discovers his true destiny as a master of the mystic arts.
These Season One books are obviously not trying to rewrite the history of Marvels characters or put a new spin on them like the Ultimate line did.
Instead these are just designed to update and modernize the old favorites enough to keep their origins from seeming too outdated, and this one is no different.
Nothing groundbreaking, but itd make a good entry point for someone who had never read Doctor Strange but wanted to give it a try.
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