Great storyline and awesome graphics. I loved this and it so nearly scraped 5 stars, but has to settle for 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of story there was. Some comics/ graphic novels have been really short, this had a serious amount of high quality content vibe already bought episode 2 it was so good.

"Abracadabra, you son of a bitch!"Jason Aaron destroys it with Doctor Strange, a total balance of humor, action, drama, characterization, world building, and killer illustrations by Chris Bachalo. And this is the first modern Doc Strange comic that skips the damn origin story. Finally! Fast forward and he has his own magical-medical practice in Greenwich Village and he treats one patient at a time. But he can't possibly imagine what's coming next!"Beware the shrubbery!"Aaron kills it with contex...

3.5 starsI started out reading this one as single issues, because I was soooo excited, so I've already reviewed #1 & #2, and I'm not sure why I didn't keep going like that, but I didn't. Then so much time had passed that I'd forgotten what happened in the 1st two, which meant I had to re-read the whole thing. So, I figured I'd just use all of my time management skills, & kinda squish it all together into one thing...Yikes. I'm rambling again, aren't I?Anyway. Doctor Strange: The way of the Weird...

Sorcerer Supremes are being killed across dimensions and magic itself seems to be dying. Can Doctor Strange get to the bottom of things?The Way of the Weird collects issues 1-5 of the current run of Doctor Strange. First off, I love the art. Since they couldn't get Steve Ditko from the late 1960's to illustrate, Chris Bachalo is the next best thing. I loved his run on Shade the Changing Man during the 1990's and he's a perfect fit for Doctor Strange's dimension-spanning adventures.The story is p...

WARNING!! No Benedict Cumberbatch gifs were used in the writing of this review!Reading anything written by Jason Aaron is such a crap shoot – he’s alternately “all that and a slice of bread” and “what the hell did I just read”. Here, he sets his sights on Dr. Strange, a character I haven’t read in a million years.Basic character summary: One, day he’s an assh*le surgeon and then:Boom, he’s in an accident!Boom, his career as an assh*le surgeon is over and he’s looking for a way to heal his hands....

The Sorcerer Supremes (magic love, oh magic love) in every dimension are being hunted down and killed by the technological inquisitors, the Empirikul and their lethal witchfinder wolves, who want to destroy all magic everywhere. Their next target? The Sorcerer Supreme of Earth: Doctor Stephen Strange. The Doctor used magic to protect the world - now he must protect the magic itself! Marvel relaunch their titles every other year which can be tiresome (this latest one was brought about by Secret W...

I’ve been fairly vocal with respect to my, um, strong feelings about Secret Wars, so I’ve been thrilled to find at least one post-SW title that I’ve enjoyed immensely, and the fact that it stars a character I’ve always loved but who never seems to have a consistently good book is gravy on the cake (what…you don’t put gravy on cake, you freaks?). Chris Bachalo is a hit-or-miss artist for me, but his style suits the stories Jason Aaron is crafting very well (it reminds me of the chemistry Bachalo

The Strange, the Weird & the All-Too-Familiar“Your daughter started cursing in Latin and walking like a spider? Things are coming out of your dreams and trying to kill you? Your dog keeps screaming at you to strangle your neighbors? There’s this guy in the Village you should talk to. He helped my cousin Joey when the walls of his condo started bleeding.” Yep, the guy from Greenwich Village might be able to help. His name is Stephen Vincent Strange, aka Doctor Strange.In case you didn’t know, Doc...

Doctor Strange: The Way Of The Weird is quite a good introduction to the titular character’s own, newer, story arcs. This is definitely quite modern in its approach. I usually read him as part of an ensemble story (The Avengers) but Strange has always been a standout Marvel character for me, alongside the Scarlet Witch - who actually also features in The Way Of The Weird!Bare in mind, that this review is coming from somebody who was a fan of the first Doctor Strange movie and is very much lookin...

What a ride!When it comes to movies, I watch both Marvel and DC with the same pleasure. But when it comes to comics, I prefer DC. I'm not sure why, but I just do.I had no clue about Doctor Strange before learning of the new Marvel movie featuring Benedict Cumberbatch (Stars, I love that actor!). So I saw the movie and thought about giving his character a try. It's unlikely I'll ever pick an older comic as I deeply dislike the old art style, so I went for this one. And I think I made a great choi...

What was I thinking? Why had I put this off for so long? Magic always has a cost, but this is definitely worth it. I should have paid the price a long time ago and picked these up and devoured them. :)Doctor Strange feels rather young and light of heart even if he's already Sorcerer Supreme in this title, complete with a mansion full of magic and a secret army of monks to take on his magical debts, but that's where the light tone and the humor comes to an end. The dark side of the magic becomes

Jason Aaron introduces some new ideas to this incarnation of Dr. Strange. Mystical creatures are all around us all the time the same way microbes and bacteria are. Chris Bachalo does a great job of illustrating this. The other concept Aaron's introduced is that using otherworldly magic has warped Strange's body so that he must eat these weird alien foods for sustenance. The main backstory consists of a new threat, a scientific inquisition if you will, that is destroying magic in each dimension i...

Sort of lamely getting ready for the November 2016 Dr. Strange movie with Benedict Cumberbatch, which is to say I have only read the (good, I thought) recent volume by Brian K. Vaughn, and this one, though I did do some (Wikipedia) research on his origins and history across the decades. Steve Ditko invented Dr. Strange through a 5 page rough that he brought to Stan Lee, and the first story was published in 1963 in Strange Tales. It was a way to weird the Marvel catalogue in the direction of the

I picked this up solely and entirely because of the upcoming movie. That will probably be true of at least half the people who read this, I would guess. It's definitely not a bad move. I have a basic idea of who Doctor Strange is, but I wouldn't have needed to. Aaron does a great job of getting new readers caught up without a lengthy rehash of Strange's origin, then spends the rest of the book filling in the magical system surrounding him. There's a serious price to pay for using magic, and Stra...

Magical creatures are fleeing their normal realms and appearing on Earth. The cause isn't clear, but what is clear is all things magic are under attack.The Way of the Weird shows what life is like as the Sorcerer Supreme and it sucks. For all the grief other heroes like Spider-Man go through this volume made it clear that Stephen Strange likely has the worst hero job. The others at least get acknowledged for their actions, but to the general public Dr. Strange gets little credit for his sacrific...

Hey! All you folks who are freaking out over Hewlett Packard and the Cursed Working Draft! Over here! THIS is where the REAL magic is happening!Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo are smacking them out of the park one after the other after the other after the other on this book! THIS is my favourite comicbook at the moment... and I've never even really been that much of a Dr. Strange fan!Magic itself is under attack by a terrifying and mysterious enemy, seemingly from beyond the multiverse... The Sorc...

Dr. Strange is one of my favorite characters. I am glad to see Jason Aaron do a great job with the story and the character.It is a wonderful look at what it really takes to be a Sorcerer Supreme. Dr. Strange is called upon, daily, to pay an enormous price- mentally, physically, spiritually, psychologically and even physiologically. He does this every minute of every day. It's a wonderful take on the price to be paid.The paying of prices factor heavily as a motif. I enjoyed the fact that Aaron's

Someone is destroying magic and Stephen strange has team up with all users of magic throughout all the realms to find a way to save magic itself. I really enjoyed this. It is nice to see someone finally making good use of such a great character with so much potential. There is a great scene where a woman comes from off the street seeking help for a blister on her head, turns out it has a mouth and teeth. Strange takes her through his lounge asking not to touch anything or speak to the snakes. So...

Bachalo has never really been a first choice of artist for me. While he does know how to keep a story flowing, I'm not a fan of some of his character work. That being said, Jason Aaron knows how to tell a good story, and that is what this is. Doctor Strange has been a regular character in The Avenger books thanks to Bendis and Hickman, and he's appeared in a few other titles too, but he's not had his own solo ongoing for a while. Thanks to what Bendis and Hickman did with him in their respective...

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. I'm on the fence with this one. There were things that I certainly enjoyed, but there was one major thing that I did not, and also I could not feel a big attachment to the characters.Doctor Strange is very convoluted and full of action, events and information. The story is colorful and... strange. (Come on, you had to expect that one.) Strange himself is not really a character I managed to warm up to in this volume. Sure, he is funny and weird, but he