Hey, /co/ normie here. I just watched the Doctor Strange movie

Lee and Ditko's Strange Tales.
Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange: Triumph & Torment
BKV's The Oath maybe, it's quite movie-like.

>>94503782
>implying /co/ reads comics
Pffft! First off, recs are for chumps, do your own research. Second, /co/ is a terrible place to look for recs and discussion because nobody here reads comics either.

Yes, comic books are such a dead medium that even comics communities don't give a shit about comics.

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Check out Gruenwald and Englehart's runs. The height of 70's/80's acid trip Strange.

>>94503871
Who shit in your bed?

>>94503782

The easiest way to familiarize yourself with the character is the one that modernized his origin, The Oath.
This is good stuff >>94503834

>>94503782
Avoid Aaron's run, it's the most recent and it's terrible.

>>94504504
The one with all the sorcerer supremes and Merlin fuckery? What don't you like about it?

I just read what they have up on Unlimited last night and thought it was decent.

>>94504504
This man's right.

>>94504552
That's the side-book, Aaron's the main one. The former's decent enough given the context, the latter is abominable.

>>94503871
Wow lad you are trying to hard.

>>94504566
Oh, what's happening in the main book? I never know what I'm reading on MU when it comes to the last two years since there's a million #1s for everything.

>>94504597
Fedora Tipers from an alien planet started a science(!) jihad to rid the universe of magic, because Gods are evil and cruel and yadda yadda yadda. So now Magic's gone and Strange runs around with axes and shotguns. Aaron also made a huge retcon about Strange not being able to eat normal food due to "magic has a cost". And magic hurts him physically each time he uses it. So he poured that pain into... something, and it created a pain-creature.

TL;DR: Magic's stupid and hurts, have Strange make Star Wars references and swing axes.

>>94504621
It sounds like he wants to turn Strange into an upbeat Constantine or something.

>>94504597
It's basically what he did with God-Butcher but with Strange.

>>94504666
Oh well, at least we can be sure that ten minutes after his run is done we'll get some story where Eternity slaps all that magic back into Strange or something. You and I will just have to wait it out, Satan.

I kind of enjoy his de facto 'magic consultant' shtick in Sorcerers Supreme though.

>>94504552
Doctor Strange and the sorcerers supreme isn't written by Aaron.

>>94504728
Aaron's the guy who made Femthor, right?

>>94504658
It's just Aaron and his hate of anything magical/spiritual. The whole subtext of his Strange run is that magic is fucking awful. Having Strange puke and either piss or shit himself every time he ate a burger read like bad fan-fic.

>>94504666
Aaron really like to recycle that 'someone is killing off all of the x' story, he did it with Ghost Rider, Thor, and Doctor Strange.

>>94504741
Yep.

>>94504750
He's done it in several different books now. Extreme fedora tipping.

>>94504780
It's basically the only thing he knows how to write. You can accuse say, Hickman of overplaying "muh vague monologues", but at least he tries something different each time. Satanic Banking Cartel, End of Times, Doom Wankery, Ancient Ayylmaos: Shield Edition, Marvel Universe: Sandbox Exition, etc, etc. Aaron's a one-trick Fedora Tipper.

>>94504808
Friendly reminder that Hickman did a book wherein the Catholic Church sends a spec ops team back in time to stop the Roman Empire from falling

>>94504843
Pax Romana, right?

>>94504849
Think so. It was a four part mini out of Image iirc.

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>>94504566
The only good thing to come from Arron's run is the introduction of new magicians, everything else was terrible.

>>94504843
That sounds rad. Is it any good?

>>94505763
It's decent. It's weird though, I don't think I could really call it a comic, more of a really visual book. There's not a lot of solid panels, for example. Maybe the most literal example of the term 'graphic novel'. I don't really know how to explain it.

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>>94506322

>>94503871
off yourself faggot.

>>94505336
They were cool, but he could've made better choices.

>>94506355
Really my only issue with it is that they only have one splash page describing how their modern tech BTFOs Roman legions instead of at least a nice action scene or something.

>>94506520
kinda like the recent batman arc.

>>94506515
That's sums up Aaron's writing pretty well, cool but he could've made better choices.

>>94506675
What happens there?

>>94507741
all tell-y now show-y. all speakie no dooie.

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Has there ever been another character whose power level fluctuates so much?

>>94508225
I dunno, Superman?

>>94508225
The more powerful they are the more they're made to job to lame threats.

>>94503871
Imagine being this much of a dick.

Like, he hates comics, but still comes on a comic board to bitch.
He thinks discussion on said comic board is stifled because everybody has shit opinions, but blasts his own.

I'm genuinely depressed at the fucking venom that is in every sad little idiot I meet every day. I'm so sad.

>>94504597
My favourite part of Aaron's run was when it retconned Marvel Magic to have DC Magic's "everything has a price" rule.

So he made it so magic physically hurt Strange, and in turn Wong started a Himalayan concentration camp where rows of monks are bound in sigils and chains so that every time Strange casts a spell, it wears them away rather than him. Dude has had a thousand backup Dorian Grays suffering in a monastary through his entire history. All those magical adventures were made possible by a ritualistic sweatshop.

>>94510202
With the added implication that every sorcerer supreme throughout history has been inflicting this kind of suffering on untold numbers of people.

How many people got fucked up for strange to repel Dormammu, or Shuma?

>>94510202
I honestly hope that Cates retcons that shit in his upcoming run, he's already bringing back the cloak of levitation and eye of Agamotto.

>>94510634
Same here. It was a needless retcon. If he wanted to do a "magic has a price" story, there were much better ways to do it. Strange shitting himself when eating salmon wasn't one of them.

>>94503782
>my bf

you know the rules, lady

>>94510202
A cost that no other practitioner of the mystic arts deals with in their own books, nor one that any other writer has even acknowledged in any way shape or form.

>>94503782
This one is basically magic Dr Who with a lady POV character.

>>94511459
He could be a guy

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>>94512153
Dangit.

>>94512168
Honestly I didn't even consider otherwise.