Marvel’s Dr. Stephen Strange got a
mention in the second Captain America movie, and will be starring in his own
big screen feature soon.
I have always found Dr. Strange an
intriguing concept, but he’s rarely had long runs in his own title. He suffers
from two defects that have limited his appeal, I think. He really has no
personality to speak of, and his magical powers are so imprecise and unclear to
the reader that they are dramatically frustrating. He can always pull some deus
ex machina spell out of his ass. Dr. Fate and the Spectre have the same
problem.
That said, the early Steve Ditko/Stan
Lee stories were a lot of fun, with a wonderful sense of freedom in their fever-dream
art and situations that somehow managed to be suspenseful despite what I just
said.
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