Marvel's Doctor Strange may be in his prime, but his final story is coming in Doctor Strange: The End. And thanks to a new preview of the comic, readers know that the last days of the Sorcerer Supreme will seemingly show him losing his magical powers.
It's been quite a time for the Wand of Watoomb-wielder of late, with his recent comic ascension into Marvel's first Surgeon Supreme. Meanwhile in the MCU, Doctor Strange in The Multiverse Of Madness promises to be a genre-bending spectacle said to change the MCU forever. Though Mark Waid and Kev Walker will continue their acclaimed run in Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme in the current Marvel Universe, the Doctor Strange: The End one-shot will be leaping to the sorcerer's final mission, set in a world described as a "cyberpunk sprawl that forgot about magic."
Based on Marvel's preview pages from the issue in question, Strange will deal with a sort of magical impotence, with the artwork featuring Strange's "Flames of Faltine" going flaccid. Again, the preview is unlettered, but it's easy to ascertain that Strange and his android-like, female Wong character are disrupted inside their Sanctum by a gaggle of cyberpunks. As the Doctor tries to ignite his infamous flames, the cyberpunks laugh hysterically at the spell's sputtering conjuration. Only after the group leaves is Strange able to ignite his flames with the aid of his female assistant. Invocation impotence? Conjuration Erectile Dysfunction? It seems even magic is at the mercy of old age. Take a look:
Announced at New York Comic Con, Marvel's line of The End one-shot comics will reveal how Doctor Strange, along with heroes like Captain America, Spider-Man, Venom, Deadpool and Captain Marvel will ultimately meet their makers in chilling one-shots. Strange's days will be entrusted to writer Leah Williams and artist Filipe Andrade with creators like Kelly Thompson, Saladin Ahmed, Erik Larsen, and Joe Kelly joining in to give finality to the long-storied heroes. The End series will show our beloved Marvel heroes aging, and presumably dying, putting a definitive period on the mostly-human characters' lives.
Doctor Strange is presumably the most human of the characters, only utilizing occult praxis and knowledge to aid his protection of the realms. Sure, he's been known to traverse time and space to win an Infinity War, but has he ever truly grappled with old-age? How will characters like the alien Venom symbiote, or the seemingly immortal mutant Deadpool succumb to the great equalizer? We'll just have to wait and see in the pages of The End.
Doctor Strange: The End arrives in your local comic book shop on January 29th, 2020.
Source: Bleeding Cool
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