Need a place to set a fish-out-of-water story in the Marvel Universe?
Haaaaaave you met Asgard?
It’s where Storm became a thunder god, complete with her own hammer; where the New Mutants hung out not once but twice, Dani Moonstar became a Valkyrie and Wolfsbane met the wolf prince who would later impregnate her.
It’s a great place to bum around for a trade-filling six issues, run afoul of Loki, get drunk with the Warriors Three, fight some frost giants or dark elves, make friends with or love to some brand-new character from Vanaheim or Muspelheim who we never see again or we see like 20 years later when the next generation of writers is mining old comics for ideas, all the while readers are like, “Where’s Thor? When’s Thor gonna show up?” And then he does in the last part of the arc, all thunder and lightning and “I say thee nay!” like he doesn’t do that every month in his own book and also Avengers.
Anyway, that’s what Doctor Strange is up to these days.
Check out our exclusive preview of Doctor Strange #4, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
W: Derek Landy | A: Ivan Fiorelli | CA: Alex Horley
A BATTLE FOR HEVEN AND EARTH! After uncovering the dark wizard Vyrbodin’s secret lair, Strange and Angela are closer than ever to capturing him. But the centuries-old rivalry between the ANGELS and DARK ELVES may put a wrench in their plans as the two groups battle over who gets to take their revenge against the wizard. Can Strange and Angela stop the conflict before a second WAR OF THE REALMS breaks out?
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