Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme #79

[brerrabbit]

Comments

[coldfury]

*looks at Dr. Strange*

...this has to be just pre-Onslaught, doesn't it?

*checks publication date: 1995. Onslaught vs Marvel Universe: 1996*

What was up with their character design around then? Suddenly everyone had to look different and I don't think *any* of the changes from that era stuck around in the slightest.

No one has a flashback arc to the S&M Mortal Thor days for example. Or this Dr. Strange, either, as far as I know.

[lordultimus]

Don't forget "literally an insect now" Wasp.

[coldfury]

Haha, at least I could respect that as a story driven change. Tell me what was up with Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye during that era.

(And wasn't that when they had their short lived fling or flirt or whatever?)

[lissa_quon]

Hahh YEA I totally did a double take when she called this dude Stephen like "wait...as in Strange? That's Strange? wtf"

[silverhammerman]

The contrast between that cover and the interiors is not a kind one. This looks so much like a series trying to take cues from Sandman and just not being up to the task, it's a little embarrassing.

[crabby_lioness]

Agreed.

[lissa_quon]

Yea...whose the cover artist on this? I can take a few guesses but I am not gonna make an ass of myself by assuming

[silverhammerman]

Mike Dringenberg, according to the wiki, so they did literally get the guy from Sandman.

The interiors are from Marie Severin, a Marvel stalwart who seems to have been done an utter disservice by her collaborators and a story totally out of step with her skillset.

[lissa_quon]

Yea I was thinking that was Dringenberg. Glad to know I was right.

Yea this whole story feels like its trying to do the Vertigo thing pretty hard. I feel for the interior artist who - that is totally not their wheelhouse.