Review: Doctor Strange #8

Mitch Nissen Mitch Nissen
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June 10th, 2016

Grew up reading comic books in the 90's. Marvel fan at heart. Hulk, the Midnight Sons, and Marvel's cosmic universe are my favorites.

Review: Doctor Strange #8
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Doctor Strange: Tomb Raider. Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo take the good doctor to places he's never been before evoking feelings of Lara Croft and Sam and Dead Winchester. Another fun issue in the latest saga of the Sorcerer Supreme.

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Adventurous

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4
On June 10, 2016
Last modified:June 10, 2016

Summary:

Doctor Strange: Tomb Raider. Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo take the good doctor to places he's never been before evoking feelings of Lara Croft and Sam and Dead Winchester. Another fun issue in the latest saga of the Sorcerer Supreme.

The latest issue of Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange has hit newsstands and ComiConverse Contributor Mitch Nissen is here with the lesson in defense against the dark arts of the Empirikul.

The Search For Magic Has Begun

When we last left Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Talisman, and the rest of Marvel's magic users they were about to be burned at the stake as witches and heretics by the science worshiping inquisitors, the Empirikul. Monako, Marvel's golden age magician pulled their fat from the fire in exchange for his own so that Stephen, Wanda, and Elizabeth would survive to fight another day.

This last week Marvel Comics released Doctor Strange #8, the latest chapter in the new Doctor Strange epic, The Last Days of Magic.

(By The Vishanti, Mystic Spoilers Ahead)

The issue opens with Doctor Strange spelunking through a dark treacherous cavern. Stephen is feeling the lack of magic like he never has before. Where once he faced down the likes of the Dread Dormammu, the fear-lord Nightmare, and the elder god Shuma-Gorath and lived to tell about, now a mere slip from the cavern wall could claim his life.

Doctor Strange and the other magic users of the Marvel Universe have been on the run for days from the Empirikul's wolves, scouring every junk shop, garage sale, and old treasure chest for artifacts with even the tiniest traces of magic within them. The quest for magic has led them here to a cave of wonders.

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The wolves of the Empirikul have picked up Doctor Strange's magic scent and have followed him into the cave. They descend on Doctor Strange inches away from an artifact, a magic bow and arrow. Using the bow, Stephen manages to escape with his life, regroup with the others, and hightail it to the next hidden chamber of magic.

The Breakdown

Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, and Tim Townsend return to deliver this latest issue of Doctor Strange. Writer Jason Aaron channels some interesting essences in this issue. It seems the writer had been playing a lot of Tomb Raider when he wrote this issue or perhaps was revisiting a few Indiana Jones films. The moment you open the book it's as if you've started playing a level out of the latest Lara Croft video game, sneaking around old ruins, battling scary wolves, firing a bow and arrow and all.

Then we get out of the cave and the mood shifts to an episode of the television series Supernatural. Doctor Strange tells us that Iron Man or any other super hero that isn't magic is essentially useless. They're on their own. They've even collected a small arsenal of magic weapons in the trunk of a car and have been road tripping around the world in search of magic.

Saving magic. Hunting things. The family business.

It's cool. It's fresh. If you've been hitting the Doctor Strange back issues with a vengeance this new story is refreshing and different.

Doctor Strange #8

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Doctor Strange: Tomb Raider. Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo take the good doctor to places he's never been before evoking feelings of Lara Croft and Sam and Dead Winchester. Another fun issue in the latest saga of the Sorcerer Supreme.

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