Scarlet Witch #1

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"I've been talking to Jason Aaron about making sure that she isn’t just a female Doctor Strange. There are differences even between her and Doctor Strange so that her magic is different; I'm really making a point of stressing that there's a female energy that connects with a certain kind of magic. As a sort of shorthand, I'm calling it 'witchcraft,' but there are literally areas of dimensions that she can go to that Doctor Strange wouldn't be able to go to, because he's a man."

- James Robinson

Comments

[laughing_tree]

Oh, I don't have an issue with rules for a specific character or even a specific title. It's rules across the board, about magic itself so that it applies to all books, that I think are too restrictive.

DC made a sort-of attempt at that some years back, when they had Michael Moorcock of all people create a bible for how magic worked in the DC Universe. But there really wasn't much effort to enforce those rules, and I think Keith Giffen was the only writer who ever bothered following them. That kind of rulebook would be the sort of thing I don't want.