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The Official Doctor Strange Movie Thread
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grebal

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Any essential Doctor Strange reading suggestions to take a "crash course" on the character?

 

Strange Tales 169 because you can't touch the 110 anymore!

 

First app. of Brother Voodoo ? ; )

 

I'd go with ST 126 to 146 (last Ditko issue) for a 21-pt saga that includes a few stand-alone stories interspersed along the way. Assuming you have access to the run, it's a good background read and hits many highlights - starts with first Dormamu/Clea, and you meet such notables as Mordo, Nightmare, aged Ghengis, and Eternity, as I recall.

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Doctor Strange # 55 (Michael Golden) is pretty cool. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

There was a graphic novel with Doom versus Strange that was fantastic.... but the title escapes me at the moment....

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Maybe "Triumph and Torment", originally done as a graphic novel but was reprinted recently ? - (got a copy on Amazon for decent price when I heard it recommended somewhere)

 

Doom partnered up with Strange to beat Mephisto and rescue/free Doom's mom's soul - according to a story from back in AT 8 (Gene Colan IIRC), it was an annual ritual that Doom attempted each year, and he always had lost.

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Maybe "Triumph and Torment", originally done as a graphic novel but was reprinted recently ? - (got a copy on Amazon for decent price when I heard it recommended somewhere)

 

Doom partnered up with Strange to beat Mephisto and rescue/free Doom's mom's soul - according to a story from back in AT 8 (Gene Colan IIRC), it was an annual ritual that Doom attempted each year, and he always had lost.

 

 

.... I think that's it.....it's been years, but it blew me away. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a fiend of jesus) (thumbs u

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Doctor Strange May Have Dropped A Massive Infinity Stone Hint In Its New Footage

 

Well, the latest preview offers is making up for that, and it may lend more credence to the theory that the movie will include an Infinity Stone.

 

As Doctor Who fans might say, the Doctor Strange footage released by Marvel Studios is very "wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey." It kicks off with the Sorcerer Supreme preventing Kaecilius from attacking him by freezing the main antagonist in time and then winding back the seconds. Easy enough to understand, right? Well, the rewinding doesn't stop there. Over the remaining seconds, we see some of the movie's most important beats play out in reverse, from charging into battle in New York to Stephen Strange first meeting The Ancient One. There's even several lines of dialogue that are played backwards.

 

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Doctor Strange Omnibus just came out ... can't beat that.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Omnibus-Vol-1/dp/0785199241/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475656226&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=dccotor+strange

 

 

 

Thanks for this, just ordered!!

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15-Minute DOCTOR STRANGE Preview Footage Description Highlights Key Scenes

 

Director Scott Derrickson and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previewed 15 minutes of Doctor Strange in Burbank, California last night for the press and some lucky audience members. The footage description, which comes courtesy of CBR, has now made its way online, and highlights several key scenes from the film, along with a few surprises.

 

 

 

In the first sequence, Strange is revealed to be uninterested in saving individual lives, as he declines to help Rachel McAdams’ Christine Palmer in the ER. Though they no longer seem to be a couple, he invites her to his next speaking engagement, an invitation she declines. “They were never about us,” she tells him. “They were about you.” That readily apparent self-centeredness brings upon Strange a life-changing accident.

 

After a fade to black, Strange enters the chambers of the Ancient One — and immediately dismisses her mystical view of the universe. Glimpsed in previous trailers and footage, the full sequence unveils more of the film’s decidedly trippy nature as Strange sees the Earth from orbit and beautiful Ditko-esque levels of existence. Snapping from place to place in odd directions may be a little disorienting in 3D, but it seems to be the desired effect. In one of these curious realities, Strange is confronted by hands growing from his fingers and hands growing from the fingers of those newly grown hands until he is enveloped by them.

 

Though they were plenty convincing when screened at Comic-Con, the completed sequence underlines why Strange immediately says “teach me” upon returning to the Ancient One. And train he does in the subsequent clips, learning to accumulate energies and project alterations to the physical world. He also meets Wong, who is unimpressed when Strange compares his one-word name to Adele and Aristotle. In a subsequent scene, Strange tells Wong people used to find him funny. Wong’s response: “That worked for you?”

 

Wong also tells Strange that while the Avengers may protect the Earth from physical threats, the Ancient One and her disciples create a shield around the planet from different kinds of threats. At this point, Kaecilius finally makes his presence known as the preview replaces dialogue for frenetic moments of mystical energy fights, folding cities and Strange confronting a mysterious entity in some obscure dimension. But it all culminates with Strange and Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) attempting to flee from Kaecilius as he folds New York around them. Missing portal after portal, the pair eventually smack into the side of a bus, in which a familiar face (Stan Lee) is reading a book on metaphysics.

 

 

Following the screening, director Scott Derrickson informed the press that the preview was meant to represent all aspects of the film. Derrickson clarified that nothing "weird" was inserted for the sake of it. “Nothing in [the film] is weird to be weird; it’s all part of the storytelling,” he said.

 

Derrickson also confirmed that the magic featured in the film will indeed be separate from the "advanced science" alluded to in the Thor films.

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