I said, “I’d like to write and draw a Doctor Strange series.” They said, “DEAL.” In reality, I said much more, but come on, spoilers, geez. That was late 2019, and I’ve been pushing this stone up a hill ever since! SDCC 2022: Tradd Moore Sends Stephen Strange to a Distant World in 'Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise' ". Marvel Entertainment . Retrieved 2022-07-23. TRADD MOORE: Yes to both! You don’t have to spend as much time on the explanation of an idea; you can just do it, which is creatively freeing. It’s a lot more work, but there are fewer concessions along the way. I mean, there are always concessions if your work is being published—you never make what you thought you would even if it’s only you making it—but it is what it is. Succeed or fail, it’s on you! It feels pure, in a way.

TRADD MOORE: In FALL SUNRISE, Doctor Strange wakes up in a distant, medieval land called Pleoma in the midst of a terrible crisis. It’s the final day of the year, The Day That Is Seven, when the Sun stays in the sky for seven days. On this day, the walls of reality grow thin, allowing entrance to otherworldly entities, and a deadly ritual sets all of humanity at odds. Doctor Strange must uncover why he has been sent to Pleoma and what he must do to stop the ritual at the heart of this land’s torment.Every so often, a project like Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise sneaks out of Marvel or DC (think Catwoman: Lonely Cityif you want to go across the street), and it's a reminder that there can be excellent works with the mark of the creators commissioned by these companies. If the deep end is the starting point and “going off the rails” is the expectation, how far must one go to be satisfied? Can you create something new? Prove it! Break me down! Stagger me! Drag me deeper! I dare you to drown me! MARVEL.COM: What about Doctor Strange and his world is most attractive to you both as a reader and a creator?

As the preview shows, Doctor Strange is practically liquid, curving as he mediates and attempts to figure out what is going on. Moore’s splashy style gets highly condensed in this issue, which is different from some of his previous projects. The panel structure is as erratic as what we’re witnessing takes place, which helps create a sense of weirdness only a Doctor Strange book could pull off. I can’t say I know exactly what I’m looking at in every panel–be it an eye or some character with their arms up–but that’s the point. From the start, it’s unclear where Doctor Strange is or what is going on, but when he’s doing magic, we know it’s him, and we know we’re rooting for him. TRADD MOORE: The original [Steve] Ditko and [Stan] Lee STRANGE TALES comics are the Doctor Strange Bible, for sure. Endlessly inventive and charming! I love that stuff.

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I love a good self-contained Marvel comic; those are the ones I return to most often. I'm drawn to the stories that stand on their own and define the spirit of a character: Miller and Claremont's Wolverine, Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X, Moebius and Lee's Silver Surfer: Parable, that kind of thing. That's what I'm aiming for here.

TRADD MOORE: I’ve tried, but I can’t connect all the dots right now. There’s too much! There are pieces of FALL SUNRISE spread out across my entire life. I’m trying to set a lot of unlikely pieces on the same canvas to see what they look like together. It’s like a collage, but then you pour molten lava on it, then you bury your face in it and scream, you know? In early 2020 it was revealed that The New World would be adapted into a movie by Warner Bros., with Jeremy O. Harris on screenwriting duties. [12] Later that year he wrote and illustrated a short story for the milestone issue #850 of The Amazing Spider-Man. [13] At 2022 San Diego Comic-Con it was announced that Moore's next project will be Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise, a four-issue miniseries that he will be both writing and illustrating. [14] Bibliography [ edit ] Interior work [ edit ] Image Comics [ edit ] MARVEL.COM: Is this project giving you the opportunity to draw other key Doctor Strange elements, like his enemies and allies? TRADD MOORE: Hmmm, I’m not sure. I’m not too worried about retreading familiar ground here—I’m in my own world putting down what comes. Don’t get me wrong, I steal from other art flagrantly and often, but I think that if you filter inspiration through yourself thoroughly enough, it comes out the other side changed and unrecognizable. Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 is a visually arresting first issue that recalls the work of P. Craig Russell and Phillipe Druillet. Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 coverMARVEL.COM: How was it decided you would write this project as well as drawing it and providing covers? TRADD MOORE: Whew, the hardest part is putting it down and turning it off. It’s in you all the time. I was in Rome and we walked into this beautiful church; I don’t remember its name. There was this big, ornate golden altar—angels, saints, crowns, crosses, Jesus, all the heavy hitters—and under the altar in a glass box was an immaculately sculpted and outstandingly sad sculpture of a dead woman lying down on her side unceremoniously with her head wrapped in a veil. No one was told to be quiet, but the whole place was silent. Under the church, or maybe it was a different one, there was an actual dead body of some holy person in a glass box for people to look at.