Dangerous Information In The Wrong Hands

'Just as science cannot recreate the spells Doctor Strange has cast, nor can magic recreate what science has already accomplished.' - Wong, Doctor Strange: The Oath #3.

I'm starting to think that might be a dangerous statement for Brian Vaughn to have used. It's not so bad if the Doc were in our universe, but he's on Marvel Earth, which has Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Doctor Doom, etc. With all the things they've scienced up over the years, someone who wanted Strange's powers more defined/hamstrung could definitely use that to do it.

They've built teleporters, time machines, gateways to other dimensions, so technically, Strange has to find some sort of loophole to be able to do any of those things if he needs to, many of which he has done in the past. Thinking about it, it's a bit like the conundrum the girl in Runaways (whose name I don't know) faces. She has to keep coming up with new ways to phrase things if she wants to use the same spell, because she can only say it a certain way once (that may be an oversimplification, but I think that's got it). It's more restrictive than what Strange would be dealing with, but well, he's Sorcerer Supreme and she's not, so there you go.

Looking at it that way, it might be in Dr. Strange's best interest to get involved in Civil War, if only to eliminate those two before they cut off anymore avenues. Or, it might be a case of where Doc's methods are so different from Reed and Tony's that they might as well not even be the same thing. All three of them have traveled through time, though I don't know how Dr. Strange did it, but it might very well be a by a manner different from shunting back along space-time, like Doc slips to a side dimension where time is fluid, and reemerges in Ancient Egypt. Just spitballing here.

Of course, if these restrictions will convince Joey Quesada to let Strange come out and play a little more, than I guess that's OK. Just give him to a writer that looks at him as more than an 'eraser', Bendis. So far, I'd say Vaughn is an good choice for that.