Meet Umar the Unrelenting, Sister of the Dread Dormammu

Umar’s last appearance of note occurred in STRANGE (2022) #4 by MacKay and Marcelo Ferreira. Here, she invited herself to the Sanctum Sanctorum to have dinner with Earth’s new Sorcerer Supreme: Strange’s wife and her daughter, Clea.

The oddly heartfelt reunion saw Umar admitting she was proud of Clea and even that she loved her, further softening the Faltine warlord’s rep as a hard villain. It was short-lived, however, as the two got split up during an attack by the Blasphemy Cartel, a black ops team sent to strategically remove magical players from the Multiverse. 

After the Cartel’s defeat, which Umar toasted by drinking goblets of their blood, she retired back to her Antarctic kingdom. There she stayed until DOCTOR STRANGE (2023) #3 by MacKay and Pasqual Ferry, where it was announced she would be getting married to Tiboro, the Sorcerer Supreme of the Sixth Dimension. It remains to be seen where this will go, but one thing is for certain: sparks will fly.

After all, for nearly 60 years, Umar has consistently vexed and confounded those around her, despite their own impossible powers. Whether she stands against her brother Dormammu, her daughter Clea, “the accursed Doctor Strange,” her ex-lover the Hulk, or even Eternity itself, Umar has proven time and again that she is unrestrained, unapologetic, and as ever, unrelenting.