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Post by Confessor on Oct 16, 2019 23:05:09 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run.
There! I said it.
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2019 23:44:43 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. Agreed, and it's still great after Brunner leaves and is replaced by Gene Colan.Though I have to admit that, much as I love Colan's work, I'd prefer that Brunner had stayed on. It's criminal that the series was taken away from Englehart when he was still going strong.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 17, 2019 1:10:43 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. I like it better than Ditko. Pincers of Power my Aunt Fanny!
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Post by Confessor on Oct 17, 2019 1:27:50 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. Agreed, and it's still great after Brunner leaves and is replaced by Gene Colan.Though I have to admit that, much as I love Colan's work, I'd prefer that Brunner had stayed on. It's criminal that the series was taken away from Englehart when he was still going strong.
Yeah, I like the Colan-drawn issues too, but Brunner's art is such a great fit for Englehart's scripting. From what I've read, Englehart and Brunner were good friends and a couple of right old "heads", and that "shared vision" for Doctor Strange really comes through on the page.
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Post by kirby101 on Oct 17, 2019 8:21:55 GMT -5
I loved that Englehart/Brunner run. Truly mind blowing. But It's hard to say which is better. Each is great in it's own right. Ditko/Lee created the whole thing and Ditko invented a new visual library. The original Colan/Thomas run is among my all time favorite runs. With Gene Colan re-inventing the comic page layout.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 17, 2019 8:39:31 GMT -5
When you say Dr. Strange: In my head I see 3 distinct styles. Ditko and Colan's and Sal Buscema's versions as those are the ones I grew up reading. Ditko in reprints (specifically those incredible pocket book editions), Colan as the current on the rack (when I coud find it), and Buscema for his Defenders work. There. I said it!!!
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 17, 2019 10:21:17 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. Hmm.... I can buy that in terms of weird, but for overall understanding of his potential, Colan and Thomas shoots right to the top.
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2019 11:13:54 GMT -5
The original Colan/Thomas run is among my all time favorite runs. With Gene Colan re-inventing the comic page layout. Yeah, I think it rates as a classic run in its own right but only for the Colan artwork, unfortunately. Thomas's stories are usually OK, but in no way outstanding and certainly never reach the level of the Ditko/Lee or Englehart eras.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 17, 2019 11:33:14 GMT -5
Personally, I'd put both the second Roger Stern run and the Peter Gillis run ahead of either of Thomas's runs.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 17, 2019 12:48:46 GMT -5
I thought the Roger Stern ones with Marshall Rogers, Paul Smith, Steve Leialoha or Dan Green were great. One of the last regular titles I followed. I don't think I was buying comics when Gillis took over, I bailed pretty much permanently when everything seemed to be a Secret Wars II tie-in. I liked what I managed to get of the Englehart & Brunner Doc... it was up there with what was in the Starlin titles of the same time. Another favorite was when Marie Severin drew it back as half of Strange Tales!
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Post by Confessor on Oct 17, 2019 17:47:59 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. Hmm.... I can buy that in terms of weird, but for overall understanding of his potential, Colan and Thomas shoots right to the top. Thomas and Colan's run is certainly enjoyable, but my litmus test with Doctor Strange is, does it make me want to put on Pink Floyd and take drugs? It's only the Lee/Ditko and Englehart/Brunner periods that make me say, "yes. Yes, I do."
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 17, 2019 18:07:22 GMT -5
And now I definitely have to read the Englehart/Brunner run.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 17, 2019 20:07:13 GMT -5
I like the Thomas/Adkins/Colan run, as I do the Claremont/Rogers run, but neither holds a candle story-wise to Lee/Ditko, Englehart/Brunner, or Stern and his various collaborators (especially the Tom Sutton, Paul Smith, and Michael Golden issues).
Cei-U! I summon the Crimson Bands of Cytorrak!
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2019 21:03:32 GMT -5
Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner's '70s run on Doctor Strange is the best and weirdest (in a good way) version of Doctor Strange since Lee and Ditko's original run. There! I said it. I like it better than Ditko. Pincers of Power my Aunt Fanny! Yeah, that was a big mis-step and really made what had been such a great epic story fizzle out into anti-climax at the end.
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2019 21:06:26 GMT -5
Hmm.... I can buy that in terms of weird, but for overall understanding of his potential, Colan and Thomas shoots right to the top. Thomas and Colan's run is certainly enjoyable, but my litmus test with Doctor Strange is, does it make me want to put on Pink Floyd and take drugs? It's only the Lee/Ditko and Englehart/Brunner periods that make me say, "yes. Yes, I do." Much of the Colan/Thomas run has that feel for me but again, only for the artwork. You have to watch it with the sound turned down, as it were.
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