‘Young Ancient One’ returns (sort of) 2


It appears a longtime “Dr. Strange” writer is picking up the thread that I started a few years back with “Young Ancient One”.

Steve Englehart talks with Comics Continuum about his ‘Black Rider’ western one-shot that he’s doing with artist Marshall Rogers:

“But that’s not all, because in Chinatown, BR meets a gentleman both Marshall and I have met before: a gentleman who’ll one day become known as the Ancient One. And Yao, as we call him — don’t tell anyone, but it stands for Young Ancient One — has a few more peculiar friends. They might even form their own peculiar group — but that would come in future issues of Black Rider, and those will only appear if the one-shot sells.”

Heh. In the three scripts I wrote for “Young Ancient One” I called the character Yao as well, but only for internal reference. To the comic reader, the hero of “Young Ancient One” went unnamed through the three issues and would have remained so had we been allowed to carry on. Stan never named him! Who was I to do it?

But what Englehart is doing is exactly what Andy and I wanted to do with “YAO”: move him through different periods and genres within the Marvel universe.

Looking forward to “Black Rider” and the return of YAO.


2 thoughts on “‘Young Ancient One’ returns (sort of)

  • Rob Worley [Member]

    Who better to tell a new Ancient One story than Englehart? He’s told a great many more Ancient One stories than I ever will.

    I suppose I question whether he’s actually a YOUNG Ancient One in this story, as it takes place in the late 1800s. Which means he’s about 400 years old and should have the appearnce of being 50-60 I would think.

    I’ll definitely be picking up Black Rider for no other reason than to see Brokeback Ancient One.

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