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Doctor Strange (2015) (Single Issues)
Doctor Strange #5
The Witchfinder Wolves are here and Doctor Strange is in trouble. The Empirikul is coming, Magic's days are numbered and Strange is not ready!
23 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 3, 2016
About the author
Jason Aaron
2,361 books1,719 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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January 1, 2017
Now it start to be just high fantasy.
hope it'd get better in the upcoming "Last Days of Magic"
hope it'd get better in the upcoming "Last Days of Magic"
March 30, 2016
Doctor Strange has always been dark, but holy crap, that grew much darker in a hurry.
February 20, 2025
I’m vibing with this a lot more than anticipated
February 24, 2016
A pretty emotional and visually stunning issue. Really enjoying this story so far!
April 1, 2016
This goes beyond being dark into being DARK. It remains one of my favorite things.
August 29, 2017
the hype...
September 16, 2021
This was fantastic! The awesome dark biological worldbuilding mixed with the stakes of the plot was a great read.
August 19, 2016
Si algo aprendí con este número es que nadie esta a salvo, ni siquiera el mismísimo Stephen Strange.
La trama va haciendose mas oscura a cada ejemplar, dando una sensación de impotencia y peligro al lector, lo que la hace tan diferente al estilo de cómics que Marvel suele escribir.
Con cada número crece la expectativa, pero no se equivoquen, Jason Aaron se encarga de estar a la altura.
5/5 estrellas
La trama va haciendose mas oscura a cada ejemplar, dando una sensación de impotencia y peligro al lector, lo que la hace tan diferente al estilo de cómics que Marvel suele escribir.
Con cada número crece la expectativa, pero no se equivoquen, Jason Aaron se encarga de estar a la altura.
5/5 estrellas
July 10, 2017
Amazing
August 18, 2020
Another solid read. Doctor Strange is great.
October 17, 2023
I kept wondering why this seemed so familiar and it's because I read the Last Days of Magic Infinity Comic. I think I preferred the art there than here, but the story is excellent either way.
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