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I picked this up, but I wasn't particularly pleased by it. The idea that 'witchcraft' is somehow separate from normal sorcery that would be Dr. Strange's purview...

It feels like the author came up with a 'Magic is broken" storyline he wanted to run with, but then a colleague asked him "Well, if magic is broken, why isn't Dr. Strange fixing it? Why is it the Scarlet Witch who's suddenly doing it?" Struck with no answer, he decided to go with the witchcraft route.

Like... if this was a standalone indy piece I think I'd have a lot less of a problem with it. Using a modern magic adventure to as setting to examine historical and current attitudes to women is fine, but this has to sit within the confines of Marvel continuity, and then it starts to chafe.

Like if there's a Women's only witchcraft, is there a men's only Dudecraft? Why or why not? Why the retcon to chaos magic? What are her powers again, anyway? Does she have a relationship with Billy & Thomas?

This is all muddled. I know modern comics likes to keep things like 'powers' as vague as possible for the modern reader, but after the Magneto retcon and this setup I find myself with a character that has very little to do with the old Scarlet Witch, and I find myself asking why I should care about her.