The current Doctor Strange series is so good!

Clay McCormack + Ricardo López-Ortiz tag-team on the wrestling crime drama ‘Hard Style Juice!’

The five-issue digital series will debut from Comixology Originals on April 16.

Preview from Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1!

I can tell in advance that this is one of the best Doctor Strange stories ever made by merely judging the art and dialogues. This is really inspired by Ditko’s style from Strange Tales and you can feel the melancholy in his thoughts. I’m really loving this. Tradd Moore and Heather Moore are nailing it!!

I picked Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise

"After a year that continued to beat us down, it’s even more important to reflect back and champion the small things that lifted us up. Lucky I don’t have to cast back that far. Tradd Moore’s transcendent Doctor Strange comic only just began a few weeks ago at the time of writing, and the second issue is still a few weeks away. In a single issue, Moore embodies magic – the magic surrounding and permeating a character like Strange, and the magic of comics. I hate to embarrass myself being that kind of comics fan, but it’s impossible for me to read this work without getting swept up in the undertow of Moore’s craft. There’s a lot of sweeping going on here. The lines and curves that cut across each page are breathtaking in the literal sense, where I’m gasping and swearing as I pore over the details. Every mark is set in the precise place, pulsating in waves."

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Doctor Strange #13 rolls another incredible issue for the series

Doctor Strange #13 by Jed MacKay and Pasqual Ferry offers an exciting adventure with plenty of action, magic, and fantasy that will appeal to RPG fans #comics #comicbooks #doctorstrange

An infamous tabletop role-playing game has possessed New York City, forcing Doctor Strange to form a ragtag party to fight it. Allied with Black Cat, Hunter’s Moon, and Taskmaster, the four must venture into the game to reverse its magic. But Strange must ensure his team can work together before saving the day. Doctor Strange #13 by Jed MacKay and Pasqual Ferry offers an exciting adventure with…

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Tradd Moore: Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise (2023)

Review: Under the Java Moon

Synopsis:

Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies. Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch families--had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita's family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie. 

Mary Vischer is three months pregnant when she enters the Tjideng women's camp with thousands of other women and children. Her husband, George, is somewhere on the Java Sea with the Dutch Navy, so she must care alone for her young children, Rita and Georgie, and her frail mother. The brutal conditions of the overcrowded camp make starvation, malaria, and dysentery a grim reality. Mary must do everything she can to keep her family alive. 

George Vischer survives the bombing of his minesweeper but feels little hope floating on a small dinghy in the Java Sea. Reaching the northern tip of the Thousand Islands would be a miracle. Focusing on of the love of his life, Mary, and his two children, he battles against the sea and merciless sun. He'll do whatever it takes to close the divide between him and his family, even if it means risking being captured by the Japanese. Under the Java Moon highlights a little-known part of WWII history and the impact of war on Indonesia, its people, and the more than 100,000 Dutch men, women, and children who were funneled into prison camps and faced with the ultimate fight for survival.

Plot:

Rita was one of hundreds of Dutch children who knew Java to be her home. As part of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch colonized Indonesia and ruled it under Dutch government, which allowed families like the Vischer to live and work in Indonesia, a small island far away from the Netherlands. Life was peaceful on this island for Rita, she had friends, her little brother Georgie, and the promise of starting school in the fall. All that changed when the war was brought to her doorsteps. With the ongoing battles of World War Two, the Netherlands declared war on Japan, which made islands like Java a target for Japanese attacks. With bomb shelters being built, Rita believed her mother, Mary, when she said their family would be okay. Even after her father, George, got sent to Australia with the other navy men. Rita's faith began to waver, as the Japanese came to Java.

 Mary never knew her life would end up like this. Marrying George, moving to Java, having two beautiful children and a third on its way. Only to have her life ripped away from her as the Japanese transported her and her family to Tjideng women's prisoner of war camp. There she and her children endure brutal punishment, starvation, forced labor, and cruelty at its highest forms. With the hope that George is alive and the Allies can win the war, Mary tries to keep her head up high as she supports her family through these harsh times. 

George only wanted what was best for his family, and his nation. Forced to leave his wife and children vulnerable as he travels to Australia, it was a mission that never happened. Having their mindsweeper hit, George and fellow navy men found themselves castaways, hoping to avoid the Japanese and their POWs camps, while trying to make it back to their families, in one piece.

Thoughts: 

Heather Moore never ceases to surprise me, and this novel is nothing different. Taken from multiple points of view of a single family, Moore gives us another historically accurate account, and one of the first historical fiction novels to recount the Dutch experience in Indonesia during World War Two. Telling the true story of what happened to Rita [Marie] Vischer’s family, Moore interviews Rita who was a child during World War Two and the POW camp she and her family were a part of. To make it more accurate, Moore includes small journal entries from other members of the Japanese POW camps in Indonesia during this time period. For the story, Moore switches between the point of view of Rita, Mary (Rita’s mother), and George (Rita’s father), and she tells us this compelling tale, with part one happening between 1941-1942, and part two happening between 1944-1945. This allows us to get a chance to know the family prior to Japan’s attack, during, and afterwards allowing us to know what happened to the Vischer family. What an incredible story it is! Full of hope, heartache, determination and fear, Moore captures the reader's attention at this unknown story, and draws you into the Vischer family and what they endured. Mary, the mother, was a hero, doing what is best for her children despite being in a horrible situation. Moore wrote her as a strong character who pushed through life challenges, never gave up hope, and was a constant good role model to her children, despite going through a terrible experience herself. George, the father, matched his wife in determination and perseverance, as he went through his own POW experience. Where Rita’s story is told from a child’s perspective, Moore does not dial down on the heartbreak that poor girl experiences as her childhood was changed forever. Like all Moore novels, I can not recommend this novel enough, as it's a beautiful story about a historical event that deserves to be remembered.

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Another amazing issue of Doctor Strange this week!

Hard Style Juice! #1 (Comixology Originals, April 2024) preview by writer Clay McCormack, artist Ricardo López-Ortiz, colorist Heather Moore and letterer DC Hopkins.

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