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shapinglightNo one wants to talk about Agents of SHIELD, then?
Not that it surprises me. What does surprise me is finding that I do want to talk about it.
Well, a bit anyway.
Don't suppose anyone wants to talk about Marvel's Kid!Loki series either, but what the hell.
Spoilers for the abovementioned story behind cut.
It may (or may not) surprise you to learn that I have read no books whatsoever this year - well, not since March when all the work on the house started anyway. I have, though (with a long patch, say from June to September where I read nothing at all) managed to plough my way through a lot of graphic novels featuring Thor and Loki.
Some of them were good (all the ones written by Matt Fraction), some of them were very good indeed (all the ones written by Kieron Gillen), and some (J M Straczynski's stuff, which I only read because some Marvel Wiki seemed to suggest that was where the big turnaround in Loki's character begins - it isn't) pretty average.
Last night I finally came to the end of Kid!Loki's story, on the last pages of Everything Burns, during the course of which Kid!Loki, having set free Surtur the fire demon (or did that happen earlier? My memory of what happened when is a bit hazy due to the long gap when I read nothing at all) concocts one of his signature overly elaborate schemes to defeat him, during the course of which he seems to have betrayed not only his foster brother Thor (basically, he leaves him to drown in a big, fiery lake) but everyone else in Asgard who was ever nice to the kid! version of him. But he triumphs in the end, only to find his triumph turn to ashes when he discovers that his entire existence is part of an even more over-elaborate scheme on the part of his old, evil self (who is dead, well, sort of) to give himself a fresh start.
Old!Loki gives Kid!Loki no choice but to sacrifice himself and let Old!Loki have his body, otherwise the entire world, and everyone Kid!Loki loves (including Thor) will go to hell. The end is sort of bittersweet, in that Kid!Loki informs Old!Loki that the fact he is willing to sacrifice himself for others is proof positive that he has changed, something he thinks Old!Loki is incapable of doing.
He still dies, though, and it's very upsetting because he's such an endearing and engaging character.
I'm sad. :(
I know Old!Loki who replaces Kid!Loki turns out to not quite be Evil!Loki too (and in fact becomes teen Loki of Loki: Agent of Asgard), but still...
Sad. :((
Not that I'd want Kid!Loki back unless Kieron Gillen were to write him. He's very good, Kieron Gillen. I must try and catch up on other stuff he's written.
Not that it surprises me. What does surprise me is finding that I do want to talk about it.
Well, a bit anyway.
Don't suppose anyone wants to talk about Marvel's Kid!Loki series either, but what the hell.
Spoilers for the abovementioned story behind cut.
It may (or may not) surprise you to learn that I have read no books whatsoever this year - well, not since March when all the work on the house started anyway. I have, though (with a long patch, say from June to September where I read nothing at all) managed to plough my way through a lot of graphic novels featuring Thor and Loki.
Some of them were good (all the ones written by Matt Fraction), some of them were very good indeed (all the ones written by Kieron Gillen), and some (J M Straczynski's stuff, which I only read because some Marvel Wiki seemed to suggest that was where the big turnaround in Loki's character begins - it isn't) pretty average.
Last night I finally came to the end of Kid!Loki's story, on the last pages of Everything Burns, during the course of which Kid!Loki, having set free Surtur the fire demon (or did that happen earlier? My memory of what happened when is a bit hazy due to the long gap when I read nothing at all) concocts one of his signature overly elaborate schemes to defeat him, during the course of which he seems to have betrayed not only his foster brother Thor (basically, he leaves him to drown in a big, fiery lake) but everyone else in Asgard who was ever nice to the kid! version of him. But he triumphs in the end, only to find his triumph turn to ashes when he discovers that his entire existence is part of an even more over-elaborate scheme on the part of his old, evil self (who is dead, well, sort of) to give himself a fresh start.
Old!Loki gives Kid!Loki no choice but to sacrifice himself and let Old!Loki have his body, otherwise the entire world, and everyone Kid!Loki loves (including Thor) will go to hell. The end is sort of bittersweet, in that Kid!Loki informs Old!Loki that the fact he is willing to sacrifice himself for others is proof positive that he has changed, something he thinks Old!Loki is incapable of doing.
He still dies, though, and it's very upsetting because he's such an endearing and engaging character.
I'm sad. :(
I know Old!Loki who replaces Kid!Loki turns out to not quite be Evil!Loki too (and in fact becomes teen Loki of Loki: Agent of Asgard), but still...
Sad. :((
Not that I'd want Kid!Loki back unless Kieron Gillen were to write him. He's very good, Kieron Gillen. I must try and catch up on other stuff he's written.