Checked out Essential Doctor Strange from the library and was inspired to draw him on a recent bus ride. No Ditko in this collection, but there was some Brunner and Colan. It included a Dracula crossover. Generally not great stuff, but not necessarily awful either. I find Steve Englehart's writing more and more difficult to tolerate as I get older. I think he has some cool ideas but at times he presents them in an awkward fashion.
I progressed through so little of the history of Dr Strange. It was all about that special astral playground of Ditko's brain.
ReplyDeleteI have a copy somewhere of a special issue of Mike Mignola doing a Dr Starnge Dr Doom special issue. This way before Mike Mignola was Mike Mignola. I'll have to find that.
LI like the sketch. Do a funny caption for it and you're done with a nearsighted comics. I'll try one.
"My name is Strange. I'll be your waiter tonight."
@ Rick: Love it--really fun sketch, and I like how you get a more narrow-headed, cerebral suaveness to yr Dr. More like a William Powell Dr. Strange--an old-fashioned way of seeing the leading man. You can't have a leading man like that now. Her has to have more muscles.
ReplyDelete@ Ellis: HAHAHA! Funny! Rick, you should use it!
Maybe that's why I like Dr. Who so much... the 2 most recent Doctors have been tall skinny fellows... heroes without the muscles.
ReplyDeleteIf memory serves, Ellis, that Doctor Strange/Mignola book also has Doctor Doom in it... and I gave it to you when you were in the hospital!
Rick, thanks. I must have been doing dope and didn't have a clear memory of where I got it. Good hospital dope.
ReplyDeleteThe Ellis-suggesting-to-Rick-a-book-Rick-gave-Ellis is too beautiful and human to be believed.
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