Marcelo Ferreira

This follow-up to The Death of Doctor Strange has Clea taking over the role of Sorcerer Supreme as well as the Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village. While she makes some efforts to protect the earthly realm from magic onslaughts, she is mostly distracted by her desire to find a way to resurrect Stephen Strange.

Conveniently, a bunch of dead people start popping up in the form of revenants being created by a magical crime cartel. Unfortunately, as Clea tries to subdue the revenants for clues to Strange's resurrection, she starts butting heads with a new avatar of death called -- riiiiiiiiidiculouslyyyyy -- Harvestman.

I have found Clea's haughty attitude hard to deal with in the past, but her single-minded straightforward attitude amused me here. And there were enough cameos from and team-ups with the rest of the Marvel universe to make this rather fun. Much better than the turgid book that preceded it.… (altro)

Meh.

The arts good. The writing, while trying too hard, is okay. But, as per usual, this issue falls into that standard first issue complaint for me: Way too much shit happens in 22 pages.

- Introduce the villain.
- Introduce his henchmen that will die in the next page or two.
- Introduce Morbius.
- Kill off henchmen.
- Bring in same old cliche plot about Morbius trying to cure himself.
- Use that to springboard to his origin story.
- Shenanigans with cure.
- Introduce new villain on the splash page at the end.

That's far too much to ask of 22 pages.… (altro)