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Jed MacKay confirmed to continue writing Doctor Strange, whew!
Friday, December 23rd, 2022 07:36 pm( just gushing about my enjoyment of the current run of Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay )
Who is this Jed MacKay guy of whom I'd never heard before I stumbled into this Doctor Strange run? Wikipedia has an entry for a Jed MacKay who is "a Canadian children's TV producer/writer/composer" but that entry hasn't been updated since 2019. Is it the same man? A little light Googling suggests: maybe? The Jed MacKay who now writes Doctor Strange is from P.E.I.. He's currently writing Moon Knight and Mary Jane and Black Cat as well as Strange, and he has something coming called Timeless that looks like a specialty Kang run, so... whoever he is, wherever he came from, he has been handed some heavy-hitters of great value to the corporate overlords!
Growing up, I would perhaps often have taken the identity of the writer a little for granted -- exception made for my grudge against John Byrne's West Coast Avengers run -- perhaps because of Claremont's seemingly eternal tenure on the mutant books. I would have thought of myself mainly as a fan of the character, whomever was writing or drawing him or her. I don't usually think that way anymore, and that's ... maybe kind of sad? Or maybe just adulting. (Or maybe toxic fallout from the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, still raining down on all serial storytelling, as Red posited in OSP last week.) When I realized that this Strange run is all too soon drawing to a close -- in the way that runs today are timed and spaced for the publishing of collections as a first priority -- my first reaction was distaste that another writer would step in and likely mess up what I'd so enjoyed here. And my second thought was wondering to what book MacKay was going, so that I could, regretfully, say goodbye to these characters and follow him over there.
To my delight, the previously mentioned light Googling suggests that MacKay is staying on Doctor Strange. Yes! I get to have it both ways. I wish him and me both a very long, very happy run with Stephen, Clea, and Wong, with frequent cameos by Wanda, Illyana, and the rest.
Who is this Jed MacKay guy of whom I'd never heard before I stumbled into this Doctor Strange run? Wikipedia has an entry for a Jed MacKay who is "a Canadian children's TV producer/writer/composer" but that entry hasn't been updated since 2019. Is it the same man? A little light Googling suggests: maybe? The Jed MacKay who now writes Doctor Strange is from P.E.I.. He's currently writing Moon Knight and Mary Jane and Black Cat as well as Strange, and he has something coming called Timeless that looks like a specialty Kang run, so... whoever he is, wherever he came from, he has been handed some heavy-hitters of great value to the corporate overlords!
Growing up, I would perhaps often have taken the identity of the writer a little for granted -- exception made for my grudge against John Byrne's West Coast Avengers run -- perhaps because of Claremont's seemingly eternal tenure on the mutant books. I would have thought of myself mainly as a fan of the character, whomever was writing or drawing him or her. I don't usually think that way anymore, and that's ... maybe kind of sad? Or maybe just adulting. (Or maybe toxic fallout from the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, still raining down on all serial storytelling, as Red posited in OSP last week.) When I realized that this Strange run is all too soon drawing to a close -- in the way that runs today are timed and spaced for the publishing of collections as a first priority -- my first reaction was distaste that another writer would step in and likely mess up what I'd so enjoyed here. And my second thought was wondering to what book MacKay was going, so that I could, regretfully, say goodbye to these characters and follow him over there.
To my delight, the previously mentioned light Googling suggests that MacKay is staying on Doctor Strange. Yes! I get to have it both ways. I wish him and me both a very long, very happy run with Stephen, Clea, and Wong, with frequent cameos by Wanda, Illyana, and the rest.
