Status Updates From Doctor Strange Omnibus, Vol. 1

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2

fun little team up but lacking a lot of the spectacle that takes strange tales so often to the next level. glad to see spidey though!

#146

an absolute stunner of a finale! it's always great when a comic storyline can end on its own terms. and clea is finally given her name! you can tell ditko takes absolute glee in drawing the cosmic entities in this world. eternity is rendered incredibly, both in script and ink. fun stuff all around and it really felt like the final episode of an old cartoon which in my book is high praise

#145

a book about how even the sorcerer supreme is not immune to being shot with a gun

#144, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Steve Ditko, Artie Simek

where did the mask guy come from

#143

the first wizard duel in recent memory that actually felt like doc strange could not win. good issue

#142

that one minion that was wearing doctor strange's cloak>>>>>>

#141

dormammu is a primordial being of ancient evil. he is also angry, easily tricked, and matched in his wisdom and foolishness. this contradiction of an entity with near unlimited power who has existed for time immemorial with such human weaknesses as wrath and overconfidence is fascinating. also he do spells

#140

ok in what world does dormammu agree to hand to hand combat like your magic is SO much more powerful than his just strike him down!!! not his finest work i fear. strange embarrassed the poor guy

#139

we love a cool wizard battle

#138

dazzling eternity

#137

truly stunning stuff here! never does ditko allow his compositions to be tame. strange does not simply cast ancient incantations, he does so on a moody cliffside, his cape billowing in the wind. and his silhouettes! absurdly good! strange and mordo constantly aura farming in those spikes and cloaks. not to mention the consistently spectacular spell visuals. the magic is superbly rendered in this issue per usual

#136

i don't think I've added yet that i really love the spiritualism of doctor strange. i love that his powers are drawn from ancient entities and that he banishes demons with his mystical amulet. there is something delightfully old-fashioned about it all that i really just adore. plus ditko is just having so much fun with the compositions here. unfortunately i have never seen a book with such inconsistent coloring

#136

love that every so often doctor strange decides the best course of action is just to throw hands

#134

AND WE'RE BACK

baron mordo and doctor strange fighting in the sun's core!! the backgrounds!!!! steve!!! clea getting involved as well, all interesting stuff here. also the way ditko draws strange in a coat and hat walking solitary through the raining night is maybe my favorite thing in the entire world. good issue!

#133

weak issue tbh. the new locale for this one is sort of undefined, and not in a way that provokes wonder but rather a way that leaves me with no clear image of what the place is. i didn't particularly care for the conflict or the villain in this one, it seemed a bit outside of strange's normal jurisdiction. nothing unreadable by any means but still a rare ditko miss

#132

the mordo and dormammu has led to some of the hardest panels in this entire run so far. how long can i keep saying it but this is really good stuff! I'm struck by how much more imaginative and psychedelic this is than the movies the character inspired

#131

strange on the run is so fun and you know i love a villain displaying just absurd hater behavior. also strange's plan does NOT work in a post 9/11 world

#130, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

forgot to log this earlier. good issue!

#129, Don Rico, Steve Ditko.

i love when people call doctor strange to help them with some supernatural mystic issue like he's an old film noir detective being called out of retirement for a case only he can solve

#128

extraordinarily imaginative. the new red cloak goes hard. issue rips

#127

the dark dimension is very cool i love how the magic looks in this book. they are really doing anything. also leaving clea entirely unnamed in this arc is crazy what did people call her back then??

#216

i want to draw all the little nameless dark dimension sorcerers this is so fun

Ditko’s shading in ST #131 is the kind of stuff that reminds me of why an artist as modernist as Alain Resnais loved comics. Beautiful stuff; I’m happy to be gaining a greater appreciation for this style.

#125

we love a good wizard battle that was so much fun. culturally we need to bring back verbal spells, wizards should be yelling stuff like "BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH I SUMMON THE VAPORS OF VALTORR" all the time

#124

love that his eye does that

#123

doc strange's first crossover! in his own book at least, i don't know if he showed up somewhere else before this. anyway fun battle between him and loki. old steve was having a lot of fun with the poses here i can tell you that

#122

THE GULGOL

#121

the ever-present physical clock in this book is never directly remarked upon but is a brilliant visualization of this issue's themes. great stuff from ditko there. i am enjoying mordo showing up with a new zany scheme every few issues, we love a good arch nemesis

#120

i love how lovecraftian this all is. i mean it's a silly haunted house but like it's also an incomprehensible horror for those involved lol. the best part of this book is when strange's back is against a wall and he starts listing off cosmic beings. "in the name of the dread dormammu!! by the hosts of hoary hoggoth! by the fury of the ageless vishanti! by the twelve moons of munnopor, my will must be done!"