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Doctor Strange (2015) (Single Issues)
Doctor Strange #11
“Last Days of Magic” aftermath! How did Stephen Strange become the Sorcerer Supreme? And how has he lost it all?
23 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 7, 2016
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Jason Aaron
2,359 books1,682 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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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
September 15, 2016
Works well enough as a minor reset button after the too-long (IMO) "Last Days of Magic" arc. I'm glad Zelma Stanton is still around, and this is a promising look at the road ahead for Strange as he rebuilds Magic. I liked the callback to the style of illustration -- black and white, with color splashes added -- that was used to especially good effect in #3. Hopefully this series will weave in more fun moving forward. In addition to being too long, "Last Days" was also (necessarily, perhaps) too somber. ... Finally, this issue has what I'm sure was intended as a little tip of the hat to Negan, in a far different comic.
September 16, 2016
Roll on the magic-ness!
October 30, 2017
Nothing like reading some Strange if you're in a funk.
I'd left the graphic novels behind in volume 3 and turned to the comic issues.
The art is extremely vivid. The writing is well done!
I really enjoyed this issue, especially since it brought me back up to date on "we last left Dr. Strange and his trusted companions and ,somewhat, nefarious acquaintances".
Overall. A 5 star rating for a Strange issue, which is hard to find.
I'd left the graphic novels behind in volume 3 and turned to the comic issues.
The art is extremely vivid. The writing is well done!
I really enjoyed this issue, especially since it brought me back up to date on "we last left Dr. Strange and his trusted companions and ,somewhat, nefarious acquaintances".
Overall. A 5 star rating for a Strange issue, which is hard to find.
September 17, 2016
Starting over... Where's my bat?
July 24, 2017
Loved the Story
December 16, 2023
I liked the new art style better than the previous, but this issue as a whole was just filler and recap.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews