My pull list is overflowing with great new titles, including this one! Writer Jed MacKay (Black Cat, Man Without Fear) joins artist Lee Garbett (Loki: Agent Of Asgard, Batman RIP) and colorist Antonio Fabela (The Amazing Spider-Man, Skyward) to bring us what looks to be a pretty cool five-issue miniseries. Read on to see why you should add this to your pull list today!

And Your Little Dog, Too

There have been a host of great Strange-related titles in the past few years, my favorite being Donny Cates’s run from 2015. This has always been an odd book, and there’s a certain feel and look that I expect from a Doctor Strange book. Frankly, I’ll come out and say that the art in this book doesn’t really scratch my usual itch for this character, but the writing and the concept are so damn good that I can overlook it! Nothing wrong with Garbett and Fabela’s art, but I usually look for an extremely psychedelic product from artists working on Doctor Strange, and this art is pretty straightforward. There’s some interesting layout work, but other than that it’s what I would call modern Marvel House Style.

As I said, the writing in this is what drove me to post about it. I don’t really think I’ve read any of MacKay’s work before, although I’ve seen his name on plenty of things. He’s got the kind of sardonic voice of Doctor Strange down pat, as well as his new ghostly dog companion. He alludes also to Strange’s past, and how he used to talk in the 70’s, which was a cute little segment of dialogue in this issue. And I won’t spoil it, but the concept of the book is really damn cool (you can guess it a little bit from the title of the series). There are many aspects to Stephen’s modern life, including being an active surgeon again, and MacKay addresses all of those with grace.

Not much more to say about this book without giving it away, so I’ll just recommend picking it up and adding it to your pull list!

You can buy this book on Comixology here

You can buy stuff from Lee Garbett here