THE OTHER SIDE

This is “Provide Some Answers,” which is a feature where long unresolved plot points are eventually resolved. Reader Corey L. recently wrote in with basically a question about Doctor Strange: The Other Side of Darkness, a miniseries by J. Michael Straczynski that never actually came out. While it never came out, Straczynski DID find a way to sort of kind of come out with it. Anyhow, it all begins with Amazing Spider-Man #42 (by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna), where Spider-Man comes to Doctor Strange for help and Doctor Strange mentions that he is busy, and the reason that he is busy is something that will be revealed in Doctor Strange: The Other Side of Darkness. Anyhow, Strange then leaves Spider-Man and closes his door ominously… So, again, that miniseries never came out. Two years later, Straczynski instead wrote a revamped Doctor Strange origin miniseries called Strange that inspired a goodly chunk of the recent Doctor Strange film&h