Doctor Strange's Death Shows How Marvel Has Failed Him
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Death of Doctor Strange #3
The Death of Doctor Strange is proving that Marvel has failed the Sorceror Supreme. While the concept of his demise and its impact on the Marvel Universe at large is interesting, some significant elements make it feel as though it's retreading similar Doctor Strange stories of the past (particularly a fairly recent one). Additionally, new issues of Strange Academy are making it very obvious that Marvel's next threat to magic is basically a repeat.
Following the mysterious murder of Doctor Strange, the Marvel Universe is beset upon by all sorts of dangerous threats the Sorcerer Supreme had long been keeping at bay. With his death, the powerful protection spell he cast around the Earth was gone with him. Now, a new threat known as the Three Mothers has arrived and are seeking to feed their offspring known as the Peregrine Child, a being that endlessly consumes magic until worlds are completely spent of their magical power and potential.
While Marvel's surviving heroes learned more about the Peregrine Child from Clea in Death of Doctor Strange #3 from writer Jed MacKay and artist Lee Garbett, it should be noted that Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos' Strange Academy #13 took the time to remind readers of the Imperator, another cosmic being who sought to bring about the end of all magic. Strange only recently defeated and locked the Imperator below his Sanctum Sanctorum in 2015's Doctor Strange series, resulting in this new threat feeling very much like a repeat as opposed to something new.
It really is odd that Marvel chose to bring back the Imperator given his similarities to the current threat of the Peregrine Child (who's essentially a magical Galactus). It's also disappointing that the Child and Three Mothers are the best Marvel's come up with in the wake of Doctor Strange's death: more beings who want to destroy all magic. It makes Marvel's magic side feel somewhat limited and narrow in scope, especially given the vastness and diversity of stories featured of the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe.
Eliminating magic from a magical realm may be a popular idea in modern storytelling, but Marvel's already done it, and not too long ago. It would have been far more interesting had new avenues of dangerous magic been awakened in response to Doctor Strange's death, or perhaps the new Sorcerer Supreme arises and chooses to follow a path of darkness. Either way, Marvel's magic stories can and should be more that than what they currently are.
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