Pretty much from the start, emails and comments have appeared to the tune of “well this is all well and good but Dr. Strange isn’t the Sorcerer Supreme any more so everything you’re doing is meaningless.” And, as amusing as it is that people’s chief reason for dubbing this “meaningless” is that it does not […]

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(People just kept mentioning them and mentioning them over and over again, and I kept thinking, “man when I get to #29 they are going to accuse me of pandering or plagiarism or something like that.”) The Dire Wraiths hate you. It’s not personal. They hate everybody. But it also is personal because if they […]

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR STRANGE. 1.) He is polite. Not just because he routinely deals with impossibly powerful forces whom he does not want to offend (although that is certainly part of it); Stephen Strange is polite because at his core he is a man who has been humbled. He was an arrogant […]

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Final thoughts on So You Think You Can Dance Australia: 1.) I think everybody in the building expected person A to win, including person B (who was all but saying “you’ve got this in the bag” to A on stage), and when B won they were completely staggered. And A, to their credit, was not […]

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Homer made up a lot of stuff, mostly because he worked from unreliable sources. Odysseus’ journey home, from the smoking ruins of Troy to Ithaca, did indeed last ten years. Or seventeen, depending on how you count it. See, if you just count from the time he left Troy to the time he arrived in […]

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A while back, somebody asked when I was going to talk about Clea. And my response was “they’re over.” Because Clea, although she is most certainly Stephen Strange’s most notable and notorious love affair, belongs in Strange’s past (at least romantically – she’s still a powerful sorceress and good friend). They were good for one […]

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Doctor Doom plays a different role in any potential Doctor Strange comic than he does just about anywhere else. In an issue of Fantastic Four, if Doom shows up, he is inevitably the antagonist. In an issue of Spider-Man, he is almost always the antagonist. In Avengers, antagonist. If he ever shows up in an […]

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A lot of the interblogowoobs have been rhapsodizing of late over the Espresso Book Machine, which can print and bind a book in about five minutes while you wait, and therefore can access a range of titles far surpassing any regular bookshop. And it’s owned by Blackwell’s, which is primarily an academic book chain. People […]

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(NOTE: Brad Reed originally submitted this idea to me a couple weeks back, and I liked it so much that I removed one of mine to make room for it, because it’s nifty. I tweaked it a bit, but this is still mostly Brad’s.) The reasoning is simple: you all know about ley lines, right? […]

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The setup is simple: Something Bad Happens. Something that is so bad, Dr. Strange heeds an impulse he normally ignores: to call in backup. Now, his instincts say “call in the Defenders.” The Hulk, the Silver Surfer and the Sub-Mariner aren’t his friends, not really. And they’re barely even a team. So he heeds his […]

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Astronomers discover evidence that the Milky Way “tastes of raspberries.”

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At his essence, Dr. Strange is a reactive hero. There is nothing wrong with this. Sometimes comic writers get tired of “reactive” and want to write heroes who proactively take on super-evil and what have you, and it can work for a little while if you set it up properly (Abnett and Lanning are doing […]

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Science tells us that the earth is six billion years old, formed from a clump of dust which coalesced into a solid planetoid where water eventually formed and amino acids and electricity created the spark of life. An old shaman will tell you that the world was created when Turtle pushed some dirt onto his […]

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