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Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #8
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange, Vol. 8
Collecting Doctor Strange (1974) #38-46; What If? (1977) #18; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #5.
Celebrated writer Chris Claremont turns his magic toward the Master of the Mystic Arts: Doctor Strange! Joined by artistic icon Gene Colan, there's no doubt that the Doctor is in! Together, these creative giants return Baron Mordo to the fore, arming him with the occult secrets of the Vatican and testing Doctor Strange's mystic might. Then, Wong is captured by the Shadowqueen, and Clea and Strange must traverse dimensions and battle the demonic N'Garai to save him! Also featuring a Claremont/Marshall Rogers masterpiece; an alternate world where Doctor Strange is a disciple of the Dread Dormammu; and the1980 all-Doctor Strange Marvel Comics Calendar, illustrated by an amazing array of top artists from Frank Miller to John Byrne!
Celebrated writer Chris Claremont turns his magic toward the Master of the Mystic Arts: Doctor Strange! Joined by artistic icon Gene Colan, there's no doubt that the Doctor is in! Together, these creative giants return Baron Mordo to the fore, arming him with the occult secrets of the Vatican and testing Doctor Strange's mystic might. Then, Wong is captured by the Shadowqueen, and Clea and Strange must traverse dimensions and battle the demonic N'Garai to save him! Also featuring a Claremont/Marshall Rogers masterpiece; an alternate world where Doctor Strange is a disciple of the Dread Dormammu; and the1980 all-Doctor Strange Marvel Comics Calendar, illustrated by an amazing array of top artists from Frank Miller to John Byrne!
285 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 10, 2017
About the author
Chris Claremont
3,303 books908 followersChris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
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June 21, 2017
What makes this volume stand out? Or what makes it worth reading? Some solid artwork, most of it by Gene Colan. While this is not Colan's best, he is the perfect artist for this type of story. Almost all of the writing is Chris Claremont. Claremont really added to the series by making the characters a little more human and if you take out all of the magic, the series reads just like those old romance comics that Marvel stopped publishing in the previous decade.
January 15, 2021
Chris Claremont joins the ranks of Dr. Strange writers and provides consistent storytelling and some truly engaging ideas, as well as some storylines that dragged a bit for me. I appreciated the emphasis on romance, but the new characters did not have much to do. I really enjoyed Dr. Strange's confrontation with patients from his past, which reminded me of Englehart's Dr. Strange ideas. The covers for this run were really wonderful. Gene Colan illustrates much of this volume and as always I am a fan. Claremont's stories require more panels and pack those panels with text, which doesn't provide as much breathing room for the artwork or opportunities for truly awe-inspiring full pages. The non-Claremont stories in this volume were fresh and interesting, I especially liked the WHAT IF? issue, and the non-Colan artwork was good as well. The issues in this volume feature a fairly consistent run, but perhaps with fewer standout moments.
March 28, 2023
3.5 for the content of this collection, with the excellent introduction by Claremont and reproduction of the Dr Strange calendar, but 3 for the Claremont run itself.
Claremont's take on Strange just didn't click for me. It was decent, but just seemed to take too long to go anywhere, lacking focus. The best issues here were the 'Marvel Fanfare' , 'Man-Thing' and 'What If' ones, two of which were written by Claremont too, showing he has good Dr Strange stories in him.
The Colan/ Palmer art on most issues here was of course excellent, as was the Marshall Rogers/ Craig Russell effort.
Not a favourite volume, but still a very readable one.
Claremont's take on Strange just didn't click for me. It was decent, but just seemed to take too long to go anywhere, lacking focus. The best issues here were the 'Marvel Fanfare' , 'Man-Thing' and 'What If' ones, two of which were written by Claremont too, showing he has good Dr Strange stories in him.
The Colan/ Palmer art on most issues here was of course excellent, as was the Marshall Rogers/ Craig Russell effort.
Not a favourite volume, but still a very readable one.
August 3, 2020
This book contains several things that I like: Marvel comics from the 70's and 80's, the art of Gene Cola, the covers by Michael Golden (who also pencils a very short story), the characters of Dr. Strange and Clea (I don't care if she is Dormammu's nice, she's awfully cute), and...that's about it.
I've never been too fond of Chris Claremont's writing. I have nothing either bad, nor good to say about that aspect of this volume. Things happened. The universe gets saved, over and over. Clea whines too much. There's some fun here, some otherworldly chills and spills. I enjoyed it overall.
When it's not Gene Colan at the pencil, though, it's not as good.
I've never been too fond of Chris Claremont's writing. I have nothing either bad, nor good to say about that aspect of this volume. Things happened. The universe gets saved, over and over. Clea whines too much. There's some fun here, some otherworldly chills and spills. I enjoyed it overall.
When it's not Gene Colan at the pencil, though, it's not as good.
December 12, 2024
Gene Colan's artwork is great as always, but the stories, while generally good, never quite pull me in all the way.
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