CBR: Who Will Be the Next Sorcerer Supreme?

[CBR News]

Next month's "New Avengers" #51 kicks off a new storyline that will reveal the
Marvel Universe's next Sorcerer Supreme, and series writer Brian Michael Bendis
and editor Tom Brevoort join CBR to breakdown some of the candidates.


Full article here.

[blehbeh]

Er, what other writers have used Dr. Strange the way Bendis described since that annual? I can't recall anyone. Am I forgetting something major?

[Cruelly_Innocent]

I bet there's a reason why the Hood is missing from that red-herring of a list :rolleyes:

I could be wrong

[Quinnhop]

I bet there's a reason the Hood is missing from that red-herring list :rolleyes:

I could be wrong

EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Given the fact that it's, well, the "Dark Reign"; the Hood's mystic qualities are being expanded upon; and he's conveniently absent on the list...

I say we can call it.

[Dr. Chaos]

Good lord...please don't let it be The Hood.

Ordinarily I hate the term "mary sue" but the more I see of him, the more I'm tempted to start using it.

I've been begging Marvel to take the title away from Strange for years, it would be such an incredible waste to give it to an ignoramus hot headed thug.

[Assemble]

It's going to be the Hood. How can I be the only one who is down with that idea? I think it would be great.

[Straker]

Good lord...please don't let it be The Hood.

Ordinarily I hate the term "mary sue" but the more I see of him, the more I'm tempted to start using it.

I've been begging Marvel to take the title away from Strange for years, it would be such an incredible waste to give it to an ignoramus hot headed thug.

You realise, of course, that they could never let a villain permanently hold the title of "Sorceror Supreme." That's too much ambigious power to be sitting around in evil hands, jeopordizing many stories with "well, why didn't the Hood just wish the bank robbed in the first place instead of sending goons?"

I think it'll be the Hood for a while, just to show how bad it can get and how much power the title has -- only to be wrestled by Strange's replacement.

[Clea]

“I was scared and a little bummed that this storyline about who Stephen Strange is now, what he’s doing now that he’s not the Sorcerer Supreme, and who the new Sorcerer Supreme is since there has to be one, would disappear or lose some of the oomph it had,” Bendis told CBR. “So I said, ‘If no one is going to do anything about this, then when I’m done with ‘Secret Invasion’ I’ll take it back. I waited until the last minute and no one got anything going, so I gleefully grabbed it back because I was really dying to do this story."

Sure. After completely running the character into the ground, Bendis is now "gleefully" ready to finish the job. Great.

[TheDrizzt]

Let's not act like there's any suspense. It's going to be McNee (clever to misspell his name). Marvel's pattern of late has been to go from obscure-ish miniseries to mover-and-shaker overnight (Sentry, Marvel Boy, Hood, Agents of Atlas).

Though I'd back Kale in a heartbeat if they'd bring back the barely-there bikini...

[Falconen]

Why weren't Margali Szardos or Amanda Sefton on the short list? I think either of them would have been a choice before Jennifer Kale or Wanda. Wanda doesn't have that much formal training in magic. She only really used it to learn more focus and control over her mutant abilities. Of course, she was "touched" by Cthon.

[UrinalPooper]

I was hoping to see Sefton in the running... I just hope that it's not M.C. k-Nee or whatever the heck his name is. I'd love to see the Hood, just because I enjoy the character, Doom would be entertaining but only if it was being done for Deadpool-esque yucks.

[SMARTASS8]

Did they ever clear up the whole "Doctor Strange has used Chaos Magic" and "no, there is no such thing as Chaos Magic" contradiction that Bendis unleashed in Avengers: Disassembled?

[Falconen]

Did they ever clear up the whole "Doctor Strange has used Chaos Magic" and "no, there is no such thing as Chaos Magic" contradiction that Bendis unleashed in Avengers: Disassembled?

No, and since it was Bendis, it will never be addressed or rectified. He is their main money maker right now, and he is allowed to run roughshod over anything he wants.

[Dark Traveller]

Did they ever clear up the whole "Doctor Strange has used Chaos Magic" and "no, there is no such thing as Chaos Magic" contradiction that Bendis unleashed in Avengers: Disassembled?

No, but I suppose he could write it off as a piece of cunning psychological mind play used by Doctor Strange as a way to make Wanda doubt her powers just long enough for Strange to work his magic.

Well,... it all I can come up with.

[Dark Traveller]

It's going to be the Hood. How can I be the only one who is down with that idea? I think it would be great.

Logically, how can it be the Hood. He's powered by Dormammu, one of the very beings The Sorcerer Supreme's supposed to keep out of this world.
And if Bendis did make it him, what would be the point?
Dormammu's the equal if not greater in power than the holder of the Supreme title.
So for the Hood to get the title would be a redundant prize.

With Bendis who knows though.