Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme of The Marvel Universe, is a key character in the MU but recently seems unable to headline in his own on-going title.As a tease to us fans of the Doctor of the greatness that could come from an open-ended storyline, Brian K Vaughan - another Marvel rising star and the newest comic book writer drafted in to script the insanity of Lost - offers us The Oath, a six-part mini-series that reaches its conclusion next month.
Recent mini-series outings for Doc Strange - including this one - have centred around reimagined retellings of his origin story, but here Vaughan gives us an edgier, more streetwise Sorcerer Supreme.
This story sends Stephen Strange on a quest to find a cure for his faithful servant's brain tumour, but his discovery of a supernatural elixir that can cure all cancers pits him against a sinister pharmaceutical corporation - with access to dark magics of their own.
The stylish artwork by Marcos Martin reminds me of the golden days of Strange, when his adventures were drawn by the legendary Steve Ditko, especially the all-too-brief glimpses of strange, alien magical dimensions - always my favourite sequences.
I'll be sad to see this thrilling mini-series end, but I hope that its success will prompt Marvel to bring the Sorcerer Supreme back into the spotlight and let a writer as talented as Vaughan, or Bendis or Brubaker, take him for a spin through the multiverse.
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