Gerry Conway and Gene Colan explain Doom’s predilection for sorcery, two brief Sub-Mariner stories illustrated by Mignola and smack of being his Marvel tryouts, and a very tenuously connected Dr Strange story by Roger Stern is welcome for 22 pages of Kevin Nowlan art. It’s best appreciated in the original oversize graphic novel release rather than the 2013 reissue, although that could be seen as better value as it also includes peripheral material. Badger smooths out some rough edges and turns the art away from the significant use of black ink that Mignola would later embrace, but also supplies strangely angular figures on occasion. It retains a unique look for Mignola, with just glimpses of the style he’d develop, but at times swamped by the pros and cons of Mark Badger’s inking (and colouring). After Triumph and Torment he’d restrict himself to similar one-off projects until creating his own Hellboy series.
By the late 1980s he was an established comic artist with work under his belt for both Marvel and DC, but one who’d dotted about what were considered lesser projects such as Rocket Raccoon and yet to find a distinctive style. Currently though, everything is now considered canon (unless explicitly stated its not).Triumph and Torment is now most notable for being a major progression for illustrator Mike Mignola. How that ranks against the other current characters, I have no idea, other than to say I don't give an un-prepped Doom a good chance in this particular tussle.Well, DC's Rebirth kind of went back post-Crisis standard. This would tend to have me place Stephen at ROUGHLY his 'standard' Classic Strange level, maybe a little below, though without any of the absolutely bonkers stuff he came up with back then (due to this version of him not actually doing the bonkers stuff). Now, Clea hasn't gone through the same 'magic keeps switching around' crap that Strange has, and - when the leader of the Dark Dimension, which she was here - is capable of beating Umar in a magical duel. More importantly for placing him, he seems to be roughly around the same overall power level as Clea (and that was on 'neutral' ground, so favoring neither of them).
Current Strange is back in the area where he can, even when exhausted, give Dormammu a fight in the Earth Dimension (again, this was Strange pretty wiped out).
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