Scan barcode
A review by saif42
Doctor Strange Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Steve Ditko, Roy Thomas, Don Rico, Stan Lee, Denny O'Neil
2.0
Going back this far is never a good idea when it comes to comics. It's like a meet your heroes situation, or seeing a picture of the love of your life when they were in the 8th grade. Most of the time, its just an ugly awkward precursor to the beautiful thing you love right now. That's about how I'm feeling with this book.
Its fun to see Dr. Strange when he was still a vignette in Strange Tales, battling Mordo and Dormammu in ten pages an issue sandwiched between The Human Torch and Nick Fury back when he was white. It was nice seeing the origins of Strange, back when he was just a black magic sorcerer and not the Sorcerer Supreme. Clea, Dormmamu, Wong was in like two panels. This was fun. It just wasn't good.
This is supposed to be a remastered HD Bluray recolored version of these old comics and it still mostly looks like crap. The stories are ok, but they're a lot better when they do them again in Dr. Strange or in Dr. Strange Sorcerer Supreme. Here in Strange Tales though, they're kinda crap.
For me, personally, its ok, its a fun read. I can imagine nine out of ten people would give this a negative star review, and the people who would actually enjoy this comic are a very rare breed. If you actually want to jump into Dr. Strange, definitely go for any of the collected Dr. Strange or Dr Strange Sorcerer Supreme stories, those are great. Skip Strange Tales unless you like Silver Age stuff. I've enjoyed very little Silver Age stuff and even as a Strange fan this is definitely more on the meh side.
Its fun to see Dr. Strange when he was still a vignette in Strange Tales, battling Mordo and Dormammu in ten pages an issue sandwiched between The Human Torch and Nick Fury back when he was white. It was nice seeing the origins of Strange, back when he was just a black magic sorcerer and not the Sorcerer Supreme. Clea, Dormmamu, Wong was in like two panels. This was fun. It just wasn't good.
This is supposed to be a remastered HD Bluray recolored version of these old comics and it still mostly looks like crap. The stories are ok, but they're a lot better when they do them again in Dr. Strange or in Dr. Strange Sorcerer Supreme. Here in Strange Tales though, they're kinda crap.
For me, personally, its ok, its a fun read. I can imagine nine out of ten people would give this a negative star review, and the people who would actually enjoy this comic are a very rare breed. If you actually want to jump into Dr. Strange, definitely go for any of the collected Dr. Strange or Dr Strange Sorcerer Supreme stories, those are great. Skip Strange Tales unless you like Silver Age stuff. I've enjoyed very little Silver Age stuff and even as a Strange fan this is definitely more on the meh side.