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A SORCERER SCHOOL FOR THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! The Marvel Universe has mysteriously changed in such an alarming way that Doctor Strange has done what he's avoided for decades; he's opened a school for young sorcerers. Young people from around the world with aptitude in magic have been brought together in New Orleans to study the Mystic Arts under Strange, Brother Voodoo, the Ancient One, the Scarlet Witch, Magik, Hellstrom and ALL your favorite Marvel magicians. But with all the new magical threats, is it too late?!
A SORCERER SCHOOL FOR THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! The Marvel Universe has mysteriously changed in such an alarming way that Doctor Strange has done what he's avoided for decades; he's opened a school for young sorcerers. Young people from around the world with aptitude in magic have been brought together in New Orleans to study the Mystic Arts under Strange, Brother Voodoo, the Ancient One, the Scarlet Witch, Magik, Hellstrom and ALL your favorite Marvel magicians. But with all the new magical threats, is it too late?!
33 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2020
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About the author
Skottie Young
650 books1,045 followersSkottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
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August 6, 2020
Harry Potter set in the Marvel Universe or just the magic version of Wolverine and the X-Men. Brother Voodoo and Zelma from Dr. Strange start a magic school in New Orleans with the magic super heroes of the Marvel U as teachers. Humberto Ramos's art was excellent.
May 9, 2024
شروع خوبی داشت. لوکی، واندا و خود دکتر استرنج هم حضور داشتن (:
October 5, 2020
I remember in some other book I was reading they had 3 pages from this in the back. I thought it wasn’t for me. Then a buzz started forming around this run so I said let me see what all the fuss is about. Man this was pretty good. Loved how this book opened up. Loved all the different and weird characters from all over the Marvel universe. Definitely a fun story and looking forward to the next issue.
February 7, 2022
This series snuck past me, but I think I am really going to like it. Doctor Strange’s Hogwarts? Sign me up.
May 27, 2020
What an awful, rancid mess. Jumbled pacing. Shallow, uninteresting, characters. Boring excessive dialogue. Another nail in Marvel’s coffin. Skottie, I love your art, but you are not a qualified writer. Sorry. Also, what a waste of Humberto’s artistry. Sigh, RIP Marvel, it won’t be long now until their demise...
March 5, 2021
Emily -- yer a mutant.
New Orleans hosts a different Hogwarts, with Doctor Strange as headmaster, Scarlet witch in the teaching staff and an even more diverse class of students: flaming pumpkin heads, purple fairies, frost giants, Asgardians, demons, you know, the usual.
The conflict between students and their identities already sets down the roots for some drama and mystery.
For now it seems a tad childish, hopefully I'm wrong with my first impression.
I'm excited for what's to come.
ACTUAL RATING: 3.5 STARS
New Orleans hosts a different Hogwarts, with Doctor Strange as headmaster, Scarlet witch in the teaching staff and an even more diverse class of students: flaming pumpkin heads, purple fairies, frost giants, Asgardians, demons, you know, the usual.
The conflict between students and their identities already sets down the roots for some drama and mystery.
For now it seems a tad childish, hopefully I'm wrong with my first impression.
I'm excited for what's to come.
ACTUAL RATING: 3.5 STARS
March 5, 2020
Brilliant first issue! The Skottie Young's characters are immediately wonderful and with Humberto Ramos's art, it makes a perfect book about young magicians.
March 16, 2020
Humberto Ramos' art is amazing and worth the price of admission alone, but what Skottie Young has done here is create a foundation for great storytelling. The city, the school and the fun mix of professors and students is really exciting, and I hope a couple of these characters will emerge as new Marvel stars. In these early issues it is just silly fun, but the potential is there.
March 10, 2020
This comic seems like it may be aimed at the younger audience. That's definitely how the dialogue reads. It's looking likely it could be interesting though and this issue not a lot happens, it's just really setting the scene. I guess time will tell.
March 24, 2020
Fun start to the series. As expected, not much of storyline in issue 1. Mostly setting up the premise and introducing the characters. I'm concerned there are too many though. Might be a difficult task to develop all of them.
March 26, 2020
What Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos have done here is create something truly special. I was excited after seeing the preview pages and I'm even more excited now. Can't wait to read the rest of this series and I hope it's around for a long time.
March 8, 2020
Promising!
I'm always up for a story with magical powers + school and a cool cast of characters 🙌
I'm always up for a story with magical powers + school and a cool cast of characters 🙌
March 8, 2020
Loved it! Glad Marvel's really expanding on magic. I already adore several of the characters.
April 2, 2020
Great start! Looking forward to this series. The colors were awesome. Art is great, lots of interesting characters.
December 20, 2023
Maybe written well for kids or younger teens, but I was bored pretty quickly. The dialogue seemed endless and added nothing to my interest level until suddenly there is epic action and a corny line about not dying g while having fun. Overall well produced and all, just not my thing.
July 7, 2020
Strange Academy is a must-read! Enjoyable from start to finish. The art is excellent, the story is interesting, there's the right amount of comedy, and the characters are all unique. I've seen many reviews saying this will be great for younger and older audiences, and I agree entirely. Do yourself a favor and read this!
November 24, 2020
How fun! Great art. Fun grouping of characters. I enjoyed where this is going.
May 7, 2021
This might be my new favorite thing ever
July 1, 2021
69/100
December 1, 2022
It's Fun to read . Strange Academy
March 9, 2023
Very interesting. Lots of new characters mixed with one of my all time favorite heroes.
May 5, 2023
cool beginning
August 29, 2020
Before continuing, I ask that you understand I have read a lot of fantasy books and I am just doing this as a small place to vent. For like you three or so people who oddly follow these, please disregard this one. It's not going to be as silly as some of the others.
The opening sequence was odd. Generally, a bit odd. I know Marvel follows the basic cost principle but right away it felt very tired, like I was rereading every "we're off to magic school" story without the more intimate connection. I'm also unsure how we're finding these young energy manipulators? And how we totaled out at maybe 7-ish students? Most from other worlds? Maybe it's a case of magic potency? That might explain the student tally. Why Asgardian's showed up is odd. Cultural element? But magic is very much a learnable thing there. Although, based on the fact everyone can use magic to a certain degree, I suppose there is a solid possibly for backstory explanations. Which means I just sat here being nit picky for no good cause. Although the "wow, magic school! How did that happen?!!" thing was, again, odd. Exposition points, I suppose. And there is a limit on what you can do within speech bubbles. Not bad, just kind of clunky, like something you know could be more finely tuned but still works.
The thing I'm most vexed by, in all honesty, is that we skipped on including Billy Kaplan in some fashion! He's been a relatively involved figure in the mystic scenes, helped close serious dimension breaches and is the Demiurge! He's magic and science's lovechild! In fairness, spell manipulation isn't his normal thing. He's more "warping reality to fit his desire" sort of deal, which can't really be taught. But he was a candidate for sorcerer supreme! Heck, in one weird offshoot, he WAS the sorcerer supreme in the future. But I felt it was kind of uncanonical since they made it seem that awesome billowing cape was somehow his only mystic skill? Which, considering his history, prophesised future to rewrite the rules of magic in the universe and general relation to the Scarlet Witch, it seemed very ridiculous.
Okay, grievances aired.
The opening sequence was odd. Generally, a bit odd. I know Marvel follows the basic cost principle but right away it felt very tired, like I was rereading every "we're off to magic school" story without the more intimate connection. I'm also unsure how we're finding these young energy manipulators? And how we totaled out at maybe 7-ish students? Most from other worlds? Maybe it's a case of magic potency? That might explain the student tally. Why Asgardian's showed up is odd. Cultural element? But magic is very much a learnable thing there. Although, based on the fact everyone can use magic to a certain degree, I suppose there is a solid possibly for backstory explanations. Which means I just sat here being nit picky for no good cause. Although the "wow, magic school! How did that happen?!!" thing was, again, odd. Exposition points, I suppose. And there is a limit on what you can do within speech bubbles. Not bad, just kind of clunky, like something you know could be more finely tuned but still works.
The thing I'm most vexed by, in all honesty, is that we skipped on including Billy Kaplan in some fashion! He's been a relatively involved figure in the mystic scenes, helped close serious dimension breaches and is the Demiurge! He's magic and science's lovechild! In fairness, spell manipulation isn't his normal thing. He's more "warping reality to fit his desire" sort of deal, which can't really be taught. But he was a candidate for sorcerer supreme! Heck, in one weird offshoot, he WAS the sorcerer supreme in the future. But I felt it was kind of uncanonical since they made it seem that awesome billowing cape was somehow his only mystic skill? Which, considering his history, prophesised future to rewrite the rules of magic in the universe and general relation to the Scarlet Witch, it seemed very ridiculous.
Okay, grievances aired.
October 31, 2020
Sometimes I think we would have all been better off if the Harry Potter books had never been written. I know for sure we’d be better off if Cultural Marxism never existed. Put those two things together and you get Strange Academy. This series continues Marvel’s trend of bringing in non-comic influences such as Anime, Manga, and Harry Potter, pretty much the only things the thirty year old crowd knows, and mixing in their anti-white bigotry, with white characters on which they project their own racism. When the only white characters you can create are ones who don’t like those who are different than them and who jump to conclusions about people from different backgrounds, maybe the real bigot is actually yourself.
December 15, 2020
Aunque la premisa no es particularmente novedosa (que no se entere la Rowling), Skottie Young logra presentar un plantel de personajes, expresamente creados para la ocasión, que funcionan (aunque algunos partan de estereotipos estudiantiles ya muy vistos) y que invitan a quedarse a conocerlos. Se siente una serie bastante fresca y divertida para La Casa de las Ideas, a lo que ayuda mucho el vibrante arte de Humberto Ramos bastante cercano al manga.
March 19, 2020
A cute Lil introductory issue
March 20, 2020
É legal mais com um roteiro pouco criativo afinal é tipo um x-man de magia
May 20, 2020
İlk sayı için yeterli bir çizgi romandı. İlerleyen fasiküllerde daha iyi olacağını düşüyorum
July 10, 2020
Great intro to a new series! As someone who doesn't read Marvel very much, I found it refreshing. The art is great and it fill the "Gotham Academy" hole in my heart. Can't wait to get issue 2!
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