Comments on: Weird New Worlds (That Want To Kill You)

By: marvinmartian

marvinmartian — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:27:30 +0000

Remember the Renaissance-era Italy/alien hybrid culture from the second arc of Warren Ellis’ Authority?

By: Ambrael

Ambrael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:11:17 +0000

Who said the Americas weren’t developed there? Conquerors need land to grow troops. Continued military expansion requires bodies. World War One nearly killed off a generation of men here, with only one world to fight over. If it hadn’t been won, it would have ground down to a really miserable stalemate and started a new dark age. New conscript soldiers may provide a stopgap, but are inherently unreliable.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:45:02 +0000

You know, the evil Catholics is somewhat balanced by the only force standing against them consisting partially of the Jesuits. I mean, sure, it’s not much, but it is a balancing aspect even within the evil universe.

By: Mark Temporis

Mark Temporis — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:38:58 +0000

So, we apparently have the Kutner analogue in Creaky, and the Taub/Foreman analogue in ZZZZzzzax, so who’d fill in for Cameron/Thirteen?

A Wilson analogue would be very useful, just to have a peer for Strange somehow. Brother Voodoo?

By: Quixim

Quixim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:29:41 +0000

Albrecht Durer nooooooooooo

Also: Oooh! Novel! Can’t wait.

By: MGK

MGK — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:19:09 +0000

So, MGK, anything you’re writing more or less seriously?

A novel. It’s about 90% finished.

By: Laplace Zombie

Laplace Zombie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:12:17 +0000

Up to this moment, all I’d read about Strange was the wiki thingie, the Dr. Strangefate Amalgam one shot (kinda) and your past articles. I didn’t care before, but man are you making it interesting…

So, MGK, anything you’re writing more or less seriously?

By: potatocubed

potatocubed — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:17:25 +0000

Sadly, I think this may double up as “Reason #1 Why You Will Never, Ever Get To Write Dr. Strange”. I can’t imagine a world where Marvel will let you write an ‘evil church’ story. =/

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:30:43 +0000

Well, the TVA has a hand in it too. Of course, they supposedly have zip records of old 616 since Reed “The Accursed” Richards wiped their hard drives with a virus that makes Snow Crash look like the Amish virus.

By: Aardy R. DeVarque

Aardy R. DeVarque — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:05:21 +0000

Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from. If Strange isn’t the top cop of the entire multiverse, you’re going to have these occasional turf fights like I mentioned a few posts back

And here I thought Opal Luna Saturnyne (and whomever she reports to this year) was the top cop of the entire multiverse–both physically and magically.

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:54:16 +0000

I think once of the creepiest things Stefanostromo could do would be to keep the physical bodies of defeated Sorcerer Supreme’s around as servants, after eating their souls. You just don’t want to deal with a man who mentally and magically raped, then enslaved, a female version of himself.

But that’s the advantage Strange has. Because Stefanostromo so completely annihilates the other Stranges, he never draws on their knowledge. Even if his power dwarfs them, what does a team of 25 sorcerers have on him? 25 points of view.

So, imagine an episode of House with multiple Houses arguing with each other…

By: clay

clay — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:29:27 +0000

Eh, sounds kind of His Dark Materials-y. Which won’t be a problem for many, but man, I hated that trilogy.

By: Skemono

Skemono — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:19:51 +0000

Bret– I somewhat agree. However, Earth-2793 is experienced at this sort of thing. They’ve dealt with analogues of SHIELD, the Asgardians, the Olympians, and so on.

But not dealt with analogues of Dr. Strange?

For that matter, how many parallel dimensions has Earth-2793 conquered by now? Maybe they have more than one Sorcerer Supreme to send after Strange–Stefanostromo from their dimension, of course, plus the usable Sorcerer Supremes from dimensions they’ve conquered (y’know, the ones who’ll team up with the invaders, or at least decide to work for them rather than be brutally murdered).

616-Strange could then get the other Sorcerer Supremes from worlds that Earth-2793 has conquered–the ones that don’t like being invaded and seeing the people they love get killed. This opens up the possibility of having teams of Strange vs. Strange. But that would be too similar to the Invincible War they just had… so instead of just fighting, they have a team contest! Maybe baseball, maybe poker, maybe Magic: the Gathering!

Yes, yes! The two teams of Strange vs. Strange will play baseball, and Earth-2793 will be at a disadvantage because America or England invented the sport and they therefore don’t have it, and Earth-616 will have the advantage because Strange-616 is a big baseball fan! It’s all falling into place….

By: Kyle W.

Kyle W. — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:22:48 +0000

Crisis is love!

Kick-splode across the multiverse!

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:47:47 +0000

Lose to the accursed Richards?

Also, other worlds don’t have 616′s Nextwave squad. Even earths with Nextwaves have comparatively sucky Nextwaves.