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Death of Doctor Strange opens the door to a new Marvel wizard legacy hero - Lyra Bloodstone

Lyra Bloodstone (Image credit: Ig Guara (Marvel Comics))

A new magical Marvel persona with ties to a standard Marvel legacy is being introduced every bit part of the publishing firm's current Death of Doctor Tramontane event. Lyra Bloodstone, a antecedently-obscure girl of the evil adventurer Ulysses Bloodstone, volition debut in January 12's Expiry of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 - and we now have a firstborn look at what she'll feeling in a new design random variable cover shown below.

Elsa Bloodstone in the Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 main cover (Image recognition: David Nakayama (Marvel Comics))

Lyra Bloodstone will debut alongside her already-established siblings Elsa and Cullen Heliotrope, a pair of monster hunters World Health Organization share a bond as blood relatives merely put on't share much other - to the point where they don't even mother on normally.

Elsa and Cullen - and the mystery sis Lyra that they didn't know about - are being brought together in the wake of the death of Doctor Strange (that happened in the on-the-nose titled Death of Doctor Strange #1). Following his murder, thought process beings from our population and others give been climax to the main Marvel Universe - some seeing an opening in Globe's magical defenses, while others seeking refuge against whomever surgery whatever was able to kill person American Samoa powerful every bit Doctor Strange.

Excalibur writer Tini Howard will be connection Ig Guara on the Destruction of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 matchless-shot, which will see the three Bloodstones brought together to debar close to of these wizardly threats who are targeting Lyra for some reason.

Lyra Bloodstone in Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 variant cover — Lyra Heliotrope in Death of Doctor Strange: Heliotrope #1 strain cover (Image credit: Immune gamma globulin Guara (Marvel Comics))

But Lyra's not defenseless; according to Marvel, she possesses a Stemma gem like her siblings (and their father ahead them), simply her's is unequalled somehow - and is the reason these magical beings are after her.

"Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone is a must-read for Bloodstone fans, and a great intromission to the family for curious readers," Howard told Newsarama previously. "On that point's even a mystifying new home member you'll get to meet right along with Elsa and Cullen, as the death of Doctor Strange breaks pacts all over the cosmos..."

Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 goes on sale on Jan 12, 2022.

The Bloodstones seem to be connection a crowded pool of contenders to be Earth's succeeding Sorcerer Ultimate .

Newsarama Senior Editor in chief Chris Arrant has covered comic book news program for Newsarama since 2003, and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Grass Tidings, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, CO-authored Art of Wanderer-Human beings Classical, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Laughable) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Humorous Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Connection's Graphic Fresh & Comics Round Table. (He/him)