{"id":540,"date":"2007-06-15T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/540"},"modified":"2007-06-15T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T15:22:18","slug":"urbane-also-sorceror-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Urbane; Also, Sorceror Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris&#8217; post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/536\">Cabal of Convenience<\/a>&#8230;excuse me, the ILLUMINATI and their impending smack-down by the Hulk really harshed my morning buzz.<\/p>\n<p>You see, last night, I started reading Doctor Strange: The Oath, the recent miniseries by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, in which the good doctor receives a well-deserved character tidying&#8211;not a revamp or reboot or anything so drastic, just a repositioning of sorts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image539\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/doctorstrange1.jpg\" alt=\"doctorstrange1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And man, is it great. Imagine David Niven with Peter O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s attitude and the ability to cast whacked-out spells that open portals between dimensions and shit.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he really is that cool. It&#8217;s like, finally, someone picked up this kicked-around secondary figure from Marvel&#8217;s Silver Age and given him exactly the perfect spin. Even Strange&#8217;s supporting cast gets a goose, with the addition of Night Nurse as a cross between Scully and Nora Charles. It&#8217;s one of those stories where you&#8217;d like to sit down afterward and have a good meal with the lead characters; they&#8217;re that entertaining and well-written.<\/p>\n<p>Then I think about how this Dr. Strange has nothing to do&#8211;absolutely fucking nothing&#8211;with the Strange who now occupies a fairly prominent supporting role in the modern Marvel Universe, and it just makes me sad.<\/p>\n<p>Buzz officially harshed. Thanks a lot, Chris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris&#8217; post about the Cabal of Convenience&#8230;excuse me, the ILLUMINATI and their impending smack-down by the Hulk really harshed my morning buzz. You see, last night, I started reading Doctor Strange: The Oath, the recent miniseries by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, in which the good doctor receives a well-deserved character tidying&#8211;not a revamp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}