Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? by P. Craig RussellMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Doctor Strange opens a fortune cookie to reveal the message "What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen?" he finds himself crossing dimensions to the city of Ditkopolis and caught in the middle of a family feud...
There isn't a ton of Doctor Strange material out there in trade paperback form so I've had my eye on this one for years. P. Craig Russell's art really impressed me in the Sandman Omnibus I read a couple weeks ago so I finally pulled the trigger on this one.
This volume contains the title story, plus the story in its shortened form from a Doctor Strange annual in the late 1970s. P. Craig Russell wanted the story reprinted and wound up redrawing the entire thing with a tweaked plot and slightly different characters. There are also other contents but I'll come back to that.
PCR's art in the title story is gorgeous, minimalist but still able to draw a mean minaret or onion dome when the occasion requires. He knows his way around a pencil and brush, drawing alien landscapes as well as Strange's home on Bleeker Street. The original version of the story is a curiosity. It's quite interesting to see the story, and P. Craig Russell's artwork, in its embryonic stages. While it's good, Russell still had a lot to learn.
There are other P. Craig Russell Doctor Strange stories in the mix, although he's "only" the inker on most of them. However, you do get to see PCR ink Michael Golden, Marshall Rogers, Carmine Infantino, and even Rob Liefield in a pinup. A couple horror tales, PCR's first Marvel work, round out the collection.
Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? leaves me hungry for more Doctor Strange and more P. Craig Russell. Four out of five stars.
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