Doctor Strange #14 storytime

It's happening isn't it

Absolutely BASED

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>Gantlet
He means gauntlet, right?

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I'm liking Umar in this role

Gantlet is a word, actually. I was surprised too

grammarist.com/usage/gantlet-gauntlet/

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>more censored female costumes
I will pass

>refers to Strange by name
Nice

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>those bottom panels

Hah.

Isn't the ancient one on earth now?

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>third panel
>when the warp overtakes you just right

Hey look, it's (You) again.

Finally he learns

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Hm, I thought for sure they would fight before the "merge", but guess not

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Didn't expect him to show up either

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This seems it could be a crisis-level event

Umar is...too calm

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So how did Mephisto get out of that Las Vegas sex dungeon and regain all of his power?

Man what did he even do to you?

So just another week in the life of Stephen Strange

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And done! If you liked it, buy it at your LCS or something

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He has a different design than on the cover to next issue.

>Waid of all writers repairing their relationship
Didn’t expect it but I welcome it

Next arc better have Clea as well

>Hey, Stephen. Check out my sick demonic universe
That's why he keeps winning, Dormammu.

He can’t help bragging. Plus he’s tsundere for Strange

She’s the backstabber of backstabbers, so it’s probably plan B of her keikaku

Dormammu you moron.

He was trapped in Vegas by Wong. Wong got kidnapped as leverage/collateral by the mystic IRS. We don't know how he got control of his hell back from Johnny Blaze, but that's presumably going to get covered in Avengers.

>three more books to go
>main villain already at full power and completed his plan
Huh, wonder where the other issues will go. It’s good that there is more space to breathe, the previous arc’s ending was rushed to a resolution

It’s pretty obvious that Umar and Clea will escape and Nightmare will totally be involved later on. Other than that it’s pretty hard to guess, but I’m betting on a “resistance in demonic world” storyline

I hope the final issue is Strange brings Galactus back to that one Space Wizard's planet and says "fuck you."

Heh. To think I missed it the first time

I bet Umar is pissed.

>that’s not what you do
Oof. Well to be fair she wasn’t there when he failed so hard he had to go around sacrificing people to stop a problem he created himself

Are they getting back together? Fuck Waid’s dynamic with them so far is pretty much ideal, but I don’t dare to hope

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Is that the motherfucking Flying Spaghetti Monster?

This book has gone through a lot of previous plot points already, so it wouldn't surprise if it tackled this too.

Nice read
Thanks OP

Couldn't Galactus teleport himself to any universe he wants?

Wasn't he dethroned by Blaze? And Blaze was still in charge in Avengers a couple months ago.

Bump

He got out of Vegas jail somehow

He recently fucked with Miles Morales and brought Ms Marvel and Viv back to life

Well, i'm sure this won't backfire at all.

Thanks OP, great issue

Another bump because I couldn't read it earlier.

I love that Clea is back

The fuck did Strange do to him?

>fatuous dotard

i wanna call someone this, even tho i dont have a clue what it means

He also stole Deadpool's physical heart and is manipulating the current Squadron Supreme, I don't know what his plan could be, but he definitely has a lot of cards to play.

>Mephisto again
so fucking boring

>fatuous: silly, pointless, stupid
>dotard: feeble and old
She's calling him a dumb, old man.

Eh, he’s fine in this role I think

The CHAD Dormammu
The VIRGIN Strange

>He has a different design than on the cover to next issue
More than a different design, the cover is probably a call back to the cover for the previous issue, where Strange becomes the harald, and the cover has him wearing the helmet

Shut up, Dormammu

>Umar and Clea getting captured this easily
What

thanks

They were in mephisto’s realm, and Mephisto got a boost with all the souls. Still, I believe Umar is up to something, there’s a few issues to go after all

I'm currently reading every issue he's in all the way back to the 50s in Strange Tales. I can't wait to get up to here.

I really like how this is all paced. He had to keep trying different dimensions, each one is giving you more weirdness so that it doesn't seem boring but with the narration is clearly taking them a long time to get through all this. And the way the narration does it kinda gives it a silver age feel.

Skip Jason Aaron’s run
In fact I would stop sorcerer supreme after issue 59, it turned to shit fast after midnight sons

who are they? I haven't read much Dr Strange.

great issue. I kinda miss Jesus' art but this art just works for all the dimension hopping. Thanks OP

Look at what they're saying and their designs.

Who is Ykolon? Has he even shown up before? What suffering has Stephen even brought to the realms that wasn’t mostly caused by someone else?

ah fuck, now I get it. thanks

Jesus draws a better Strange but I like Kitson more for the rest. Saiz’s art always feels a little bit too “soft” for magic

>their designs and their dialogue
Waid, you cheeky bastard.
What a trip this run has been, I'm loving it.

Mephisto has been double and triple dipping lately. First on the Defenders mini, then in Champions, lately on Avengers by striking a deal with Coulson, and now this. You'd think they're building up to a maximum keikakku, but in truth he only fits his role here and Defenders.
Though in Champions he was basically just acting as a tormentor.

Also skip Hopeless and Cates. Unless you want to learn about the ghost dog Bats, in which case read it I guess, but it's basically the same as Aaron in its recklessness but turned up to 11 because it's Cates and he doesn't do lore.

>still going on brief mystic realm tours
When are we going to actually explore more of them? This isn’t enough goddamnit

Umar’s also a kinky bitch, there’s a chance plan B is literally lie back and think about the Dark Dimension

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we did see someone else liking chains in another book today

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So who’s going to backstab who?
>Mephisto vs Dormammu
>Mephisto, Umar and Clea vs Dormmamu
>Umar and Clea vs Mephisto and Dormammu
Putting my money on the second option

This page feels like it would fit in nicely with Waid's current run. What does it belong to?
Also I gotta admit, this run has made me delve deeper into Doctor Strange's lore... And actually, becoming more of a Strange fan! What do you guys recommend for reading? I have the DeMatteis run here in full, which I'm planning on finishing soon.

>OG Lee/Dikto Strange Tales
>A Separate reality
>Shuma-Gorath Saga
>Don’t pay the ferryman
>Strange Tales v2
>Into the dark dimension
>Into Shambalah
>Truimph and Torment
>The Montesi Formula
Basically everything by Roger Stern, Peter B Gillis or Steve Englehart is great

Pretty much all of Master of the Mystic Arts is enjoyable, same for Sorcerer Supreme all the way to issue #59

That page comes from some Defenders miniseries back in 2005ish I think

Going with a team up against Mephisto and Dormammu initially, then Mephisto switches sides

Thank you for the list! I was trying to remember Gillis' run but comicbookdb wasn't too helpful while sifting through the runs. I'll grab what I can from there.
It's probably this one then, with the hilarious cover.

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From the covers and solicits you can sorta guess some of the main events?
>Clea gets out of the trap at some point (probably next issue)
>Galacmammu gets teleported out
>Galacmammu vs Eternity
>Strange has to choose between Clea and everything, and tries to save both
Looking forward to how it goes, hopefully the conclusion isn’t as rushed as next time

Yes this is the one

Bump

>their designs
are they supposed to be a reference to smth?

Read the dialogue. Then look at their designs again

it’s puns

>>Galacmammu vs Eternity
Wait, what?

It’s a thing

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Hercules&Maciste vs Ursus&Zorro

Bump

Is... is Dormammu fucking tsuntsun for Strange? I can't think of a single other possible reason for the old "To let you die would only free you of suffering! Mwahaha! (Why won't you just love me?!)" shtick.

>youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
>still a better love story than Twilight

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As much as I want to agree with Umar, Dormammu more likely just wants to show off to his greatest annoyance, it's a pride thing

it's just a classic villain move

I think everyone is blaming what's happening on Strange instead of the dumbass that stole his stuff and fucked over everyone via banishing Galactus.

Strange playing cleanup for other people's mistakes? I'm sure that has never happened before.

And I’ll bet that random alien will never get his comeupperance

Too late, Dormmamu x Stephen is now my new crackship