Doctor Strange: The Book of Vishanti Is Here to Guide You Home

By the requirements of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man teaming up in Spider-Man: No Way Home is considerably sudden. But the concept of the 2 frequent Avengers hanging out and stepping into hassle with each other makes fairly a little bit of sense over on the earth of Marvel comics, the place they’ve each been working in NYC for a while.

By now, you’re probably aware of No Way Home’s plot, by which Doctor Strange and Spider-Man unintentionally screw up the multiverse whereas trying to carry out a strong and tough little bit of magic collectively. One would suppose that, contemplating all the tribulations Stephen Strange went by way of to study magic, he would perceive that tinkering with actuality on the behest of a stressed-out teen most likely isn’t one of the best thought.

Because Doctor Strange has solely made a handful of appearances in Marvel’s films, it’s powerful to get a way of simply how a lot time he’s spent poring over the varied mystical tomes housed within the Sanctum Sanctorum meant to show magic customers how greatest to carry out their spells. No Way Home makes it appear to be, whereas Strange has definitely taken a have a look at the Book of Vishanti, he may not have learn all of it that intently, as a result of it’s completely stuffed with explanations in regards to the many risks of attempting to drag off such large-scale spells.

In a little bit of tidy media symmetry, Abrams’ Doctor Strange: The Book of the Vishanti, a brand new 160 web page e-book of spells and lores pulled from Marvel’s comics, has simply dropped in time for No Way Home’s launch. While the e-book doesn’t embrace any express plot factors about No Way Home, it particulars a lot of the magical characters in Strange’s orbit just like the Scarlet Witch, Agatha Harkness, and Wiccan, and gives some perception into the foundations of magic that Marvel’s sorcerers ought to all concentrate on.

Here’s our unique have a look at a number of the wonderful and spectacular strangeness you’ll discover in Doctor Strange: The Book of the Vishanti.