The fourth episode of the show, “What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?,” took viewers to a universe in which the master of the mystic arts never lost the use of his hands. Instead, his lover, Christine Palmer, was killed in that fateful car accident. Ultimately, this Strange sought out dark magic to revive her, which transformed him into an evil variant of the character we know. The episode features some of the series’ best sequences and, when I recently spoke with Stephen Franck, the show’s animation supervisor, he explained that a lot of work went into completing it. This included getting one Jack Kirby detail just right:
