Grek Pak is one of my favorite writers. He has written many of the Star Wars Darth Vader books, the Storm: Make It Rain book, Phoenix Endsong, the final book in the glorious Phoenix Saga, as well as many slightly earlier Hulk books and quite a few Firefly books; joining him is one of my favorite colorists, Jordie Bellaire. who worked on Scarlet Witch, Suri, Wonder Woman, Occupy Avengers, Spider-Gwen, Hawkeye, Captain America, and my favorite comic of all Winter Soldier. So much talent in one book means it has to be good, right? Well, we'll see.
This book opens with Doctor Strange still training with the Ancient One and hoping to heal his hands. He believes the Ancient One to be a fraud for not taking his money and healing him so he turns to Mordo who intends to kill a man in the ritual but Strange puts a stop to that and for that and because Strange has been professed to be powerful Mordo puts a mouth clamp on him so he can't talk about what he's seen. Strange runs to the Ancient One. He asks if he could train by his side and the Ancient One agrees and takes the mouth guard off without Strange having told him it was there.
His big problem is his nonbelief in magic that keeps him from being able to call up Visanti to do spells. Strange meets Wong in a bar when he accuses him of being Mordor and the two fight. The Ancient One breaks it up and tells them that Wong has lots of heart but lacks discipline and Strange has lots of Discipline but lacks heart and that they need each other and will work together. While out on patrol, they see a woman overcome by a bizarre musical force that neither has encountered before. They rush in to save her. She's Sopho di Cosimo of an Italian museum and tells them a tale of three rings she learned about in her museum that if one holds all three rings one can command the Visanti whether they are worthy or not; She suggests destroying the rings before anyone can get their hands on them.
So that's what they do. Though Strange battles his ability to call up Visanti to do anything, he does find a way to help as a doctor. And not all of these rings are being held by evil beings or are being used for evil things so its hard to take them. During the dark snowy background, the flashes of color really pop out at you. This book really makes glorious use of color and there's a scene of an orange tiger with electric yellow serpents coming out of its eyes, and a man's face on the left, and a woman's face on the right with cotton candy pink bottom in a beautiful design holding something in its grasp with Strange and Sopio speechless down at the bottom; It's gorgeous. The colors, the drawings, everything; But that's just how this book is; It's filled with wonders and delights visually and a fabulous story as will; By the way, this Wong is tall and skinny and has long black hair. I'm used to my Wongs being shorter and bald; This book truly is worth reading; I promise you; I give it five stars out of five stars;
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