Strange Academy #15 Review

Writer: Skottie Young / Artist: Humberto Ramos / Marvel NCBD was ripe with tantalizing Marvel books this week, and I could’ve gone would one of the current and usually excellent X-Men books. However, I just caught up on the last couple of issues of Strange Academy and felt it was the right time to focus reader’s attention back on these young magic wielders. There was a lot of buzz when Skottie Young’s book first dropped, evident by Chris blessing the interweb streets with reviews of the first and second issue, which I followed up with a Top 10 Lessons from Strange Academy article. The kids at Doctor Strange’s school for gifted young Mystic Arts users each have a very unique personality, affinity for magic, intriguing homeland, tragic backstory, parental issues, and/or reason for enrolling at the New Orleans academy taught by some of the best magicians and sorcerers in the business. Doctor Voodoo, the Ancient One, the Scarlet Witch, Magik, Hellstrom, Nico, Agatha Harkness, and more make up the Harvard level lineup of teachers that grace these haunted hallways and terrifying grounds. The excitement that the students, all new to readers (save a few supremely deep cuts), bring to this story paired with the limitless possibilities of where Young and his artistic partner in crime Humberto Ramos can go with magic are the basis of each issue. In Strange Academy #15, we see the fallout from Time Travel 101. Doyle Dormammu (yes, the son of that Dark Dimension assho…