Brother Voodoo is the new Sorcerer Supreme and I guess you get your graduate degree with that because now he’s “Doctor” Voodoo. His “Wong” is Daniel, the ghost of his dead brother, who has been his companion for many years now. Doctor Strange appears early in a kind of “Ancient One” role, but he quickly turns over the keys to Earth to Voodoo.
ScreenshotThe first thing he does is put a new protection spell around Earth and threaten Dormammu to stay away. But then he faces a threat from Doctor Doom, who wants to steal the Eye of Agamotto. Voodoo manages to find him off, but in the process Doom gets a vision from the Eye—and Voodoo doesn’t get to see it.
Issues 2 and 3 focus on a team-up with Son of Satan, where they fight Nightmare. The dream demon is trying (another) incursion into Earth, and because Doctor Voodoo isn’t really a “Doctor,” he’s struggling to fend it off. But Doctor Doom (actual doctor!) is shown having little trouble protecting his home town of Latveria.
ScreenshotNightmare has managed to take control of Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze. And not just them. Nightmare takes control of many other magic-based heroes as well, like Doctor Druid and Black Knight, and storms Latveria.
Voodoo and Doom are forced to team up and defeat Nightmare’s army of Man-Thing, Magik, Iron Fist, Dracula, and many others–before taking Nightmare down.
I note that this should have been fun but it felt pro-forma. Maybe it was rushed. I’m really not sure why it didn’t work well. It had a very good creative team and a ton of cameos and some cool ideas but for some reason it never seemed to fully realize its potential.
Plus, we never find out what the vision was (that Doom was given by the Eye of Agamatto) and the ending promises a new threat.
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