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A very scattered book. Definitely an attempt at the time of competing with Vertigo titles, but unable to create or resurrect a complete, enticing universe. The P. Craig Russell art in the special is fantastic, and certainly gives it some of that Vertigo cred, but Dr. Strange always deserves better. I feel like there is so much to explore with this character and this book just didn't capture it.
There’s “the Nineties,” and then there’s “Vincent Stevens.”https://goo.gl/images/KHYMmV
A great collection - the art in the opening story is superb, and the Mordo story is fantastic.
This is what happens if a string of writers each write 2-3 issues and each of them tries to "fix" the plotlines of the previous writer. It's a confusing muddle of a story, and I never could make much sense of what exactly was happening. (Was the character in the first third of the book Stephen Strange, or not? Why was SS suddenly back, and what happened to the other character? It's all a muddle.) Despite the promise on the book, this is far, far from a good starting point. This is a lackluster s...
Not so much an Epic Collection as a Meh Collection. This was so poorly put together. Starts off with Strange Tales by Kurt Busiek. It's a story Dr. strange barely even appears in. Then it's onto the end of David Quinn's story that had been going on for the 16 previous issues. It was a really great story that would have been "epic" if it had been collected here in its entirety instead. You're completely lost without the context of the rest of the story. Dr. Strange looks like John Lennon and is r...
To be fair, the individual stories in here were okay, but there was pretty much no continuity throughout. Did Wong's girlfriend die at one point? Then a few issues later she's still alive, and dies again? And Strange comes back from somewhere (?) when he hadn't been away? Or had he? I don't know! The first story was great fun, though it goes downhill from there...
There are some great stories in this book (especially 'The Homecoming') but all in all this collection felt poorly put together. Sometimes I had no idea what was going on, because this collection throws you right in the middle of a story without explaining what happened before. (What was the deal with Vincent Stevens? Where did he come from, where did he go? Was he Doctor Strange or not? Where did the woman that Strange kept in his cellar come from (btw: WTF?)) This is an editorial mess if there...
DOCTOR STRANGE: AFTERLIFE includes Sorcerer Supreme #76-90 and the end of Strange having his own book for many years. This collection opens with David Quinn moving on past his main story ideas featuring the Strange/Vincent Stevens constructs and into the bizarre John Lennon version of Strange. Quinn tells several crime stories trying to clean up the loose ends created with the Vincent Stevens character but he is nowhere close to coherently tying them up before leaving the book. Several writers a...
