#agent of asgard comic book

[cleabellanov]

The WHAT IF…? season 3 trailer is looking reeeealllyy familiar🧐

[magpie-murder]

do not tag as "lady loki"

[nerdby]

🏳️‍⚧️Happy Trans Day Of Visibility🏳️‍⚧️

Please be good friends to the trans people in your life. It's what Loki would want❣️

Stills from Loki: Agent Of Asgard (2014)

[usedgingertwinkhole]

Loki: Agent of Asgard by Al Ewing and Lee Garbett is genuinely such a good comic, with a super interesting view on grey characters. A decade after it's release it is still the premier Loki comic.

[foreststarflaime]

I did my part today in The Bad Class, it was me in the trenches with one other guy defending stories told in mediums other than books against the world (the entire rest of the class) 🫡 (things I used below the cut)

It saddens me that the academic community is so biased towards anything other than published books. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a writer myself and I adore books, but they’re missing out on so many good stories that hit so much harder in mediums other than words on a page!!! ✨Stories of all kinds are equally precious✨ pass it on

Defending movies: Inception!!! If you’ve not seen it, it deals a lot with dreams and layers of dreaming, and thinking about reality. In it, there’s a gimmick where you have a certain ‘totem’ (item) that you can use to determine if you’re in a dream or awake, and the main character’s is a top—if he’s in a dream, it will never stop spinning, but if it’s reality, the top will eventually be stopped by gravity. (Spoiler alert) At the end of the movie, the mc finally gets home to his kids like he’s been trying to the whole movie, and as he embraces them in the background a little out of focus, you see his top on the table, spinning—and right before you could expect it to start to wobble, the soundtrack peaks (thank you Hans Zimmer you master) and cuts off and the screen goes black, leaving you to your own conclusions. It’s such an effective moment and it really would not be the same in a book!

Defending video games: Crisis Core lmao. I love how it uses game mechanics to characterize Zack in such a unique and creative way!!! The DMW is the main thing that comes to mind here, in particular in the final battle, but over the whole game and how it gets you used to it as well. You get a new thing every time Zack gets a new friend, and that’s the source of your strongest attacks throughout the game, a thing you’re constantly thinking about and relying on—which is such a cool way to characterize Zack, because then you realize your thought process has basically been turned into his! He loves his friends, they’re everything to him, and they’re the source of his strength! Which makes the final battle so so devastating when they’re fading away and you get to see, nay experience, his last thoughts as they’re happening. It’s so devastating in a way I’ve rarely been devastated before, and it would not be the same in words. Also there’s the funny haha that this adhd puppy’s brain runs on gambling because he has to get extremely lucky to be able to focus on anything lmaooo

Defending comic books: Loki Agent of Asgard!!!! My beloved! So this is the comic book run where Loki becomes the god of stories, and everything about how it was done here is just. SO so genius. When I say these comic books were a formative experience for me I mean it. But I’ll focus on the things that were great specifically because of the medium here, otherwise I’d be gushing for hours. Yknow how comic books generally have little narrator text bubbles telling you what you need words to describe? And then maybe have a different one for the thoughts of the character? Well this had that, and the narrator bubbles were styled like little scrolls. When you get towards the end of the run, after Loki has realized his power as the god of stories, you get to a part where he’s facing the gods of the gods, telling them a story—and then the little narrator scrolls have the speech bubble thing drawn off from them, to Loki. It’s been him as the god of stories narrating his own story the entire time, writing his own destiny. Such a powerful moment, blew my mind—you could do something similar in a normal book I guess, but it was just so impactful here that I think it wouldn’t be exactly the same. And also, earlier (I think in the second volume), a different future version of Loki is time travelling using his story god powers to write the past to his own ends (you don’t know his connection to story yet, so this is an example of such good foreshadowing), and to do this he reaches out of the panel and jumps into the margins to travel around the story!!! Mind-blowing stunning 1000/10

The strength of books: I just realized why I like my specific imagery-laden style of writing so much in the middle of class while I was explaining this. So in On Fairy Stories (the book the discussion was about for the day), Tolkien talks about how the invention of the adjective was the most important thing for the invention of fantasy, because it helps you change things—for example you can say things like the red sky or the green sun, and people can imagine that. There’s a linguistic concept called mental models which explores how we think in metaphors to understand more abstract concepts—for example, a lot of people tend to view how electricity works in terms of the flow of water. In fantasy, we can take our words and especially our adjectives and metaphors, and we can craft new mental models that wouldn’t work in the real world, and create our own worlds doing that to great effect. I find myself doing this SO much now that I think about it! And that’s something you can do really really well with words that doesn’t lend itself as well to adaptations in other mediums.

And that’s the thing, really—you can do things to amazing effect if you write them using the strengths of the medium you choose! That’s why adaptations rarely work I think, people just don’t play to the strengths.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Thor (2020-) #24 art by Lee Garbett 

[lelsiemeyers]

I literally just woke up and my uncle decides to, before even giving me breakfast, hand me this

(excuse the shit camera quality)

[pughsicons]

Hey y’all! This is my first ever post on this social media platform, I’ll post mainly icons ( that you can use as a profile picture ) and aesthetics from Marvel. From the comics and the MCU :) so let’s start with Loki, I haven’t added a filter so you can add your own ( if you want )

[ikol-loki]

she is everything to me

[original sketch because i like it]

[laurits-enjoyer]

Just picked this up from my local comic book store. They finally came out with a Loki omnibus of modern Loki comics!! It collects the 2004 run, the 2010 run, the 2019 run, Vote Loki, Agent of Asgard and a few others.

If you're looking for AoA but can't find it since it's out of print, maybe pick this up instead 👀

I'm so happy rn :D (It's making up for the terribly depressing season 2 trailer)

[cleabellanov]

“Sorry for the lying, it’s a coping mechanism - when all my branches were dying I had to grow them back somehow and I developed some schism between who I was and who I had to be in order to live. It doesn’t seem to work around you, though.”

[magpie-murder]

verity willis 💫

she’s just so aro

loki: agent of asgard

[nerdby]

Holy shit......The kiss was canon.

This is a still from Loki: Agent Of Asgard where we see Loki, the God of stories give forehead kisses to Ikol who was the previous Loki variant. I really need to reread this.

[walmart-the-official]

The Loki comics are so good holy shit. Like, the show is great and all, but the comics are just another level of batshit that really doesn’t work with a live action show format.

Like.

But it also has some deep stuff with Loki thinking about who he (or she sometimes) is and dealing with identity

And also ✨her✨ (I’m not down bad you’re down bad)

She’s so pretty y’all

And then you have Vote Loki which is just a crack AU I’m shocked is official and not from tumblr

Anyway go read Agent of Asgard which is only 3 comic books which take less than an hour to read each. You could probably find them for free online

[scarlet--wiccan]

I was reading Ewing Thor and stumbled into the Skald/Story/Seidr Magic and i'm so confused lol if you are familiar with it would you mind overexplain it to me ? Loki/Enchantress seem to use it but it's meta-narrative nature makes it hard to follow sometimes

There's nothing you need to know that isn't in the text, although if you haven't read Agent of Asgard/haven't revisited it lately, going over that series and some of the other Gillen stuff (Kid Loki JiM and his Angela stuff if you're feeling ambitious) might be helpful. You'll get more variety of examples, and a somewhat more gradual sense of immersion. Defenders: Beyond doesn't necessarily employ this device, but it will help you get a better sense of where' Loki's at and how they operate in relation to, like, material reality in Immortal Thor. I think it's just a matter of getting into the rhythm of how these writers work with this concept/these characters.

"As gods [...] Our tale is as much part of us as our bone and blood, or the thread of our fate." Immortal Thor #9

The important thing to understand is that this is not a concrete magic system, it's a narrative device. The simplest way I can explain it is this-- gods are living stories. The stories they embody, and the stories they inhabit, have material weight and power in reality-- and for the gods themselves, they more or less make up the fabric of reality itself. Sometimes this is very literal, sometimes it's more abstract. Again, it depends on the plot. But if you're the person telling the story, you have opportunities to change that reality, or, in some cases, to move outside of linear reality and time. It's sort of like when Gwenpool jumps outside of comic panels, but rather than engaging with the Comic Page As Form (although visually, this conceit is also used), we're engaging with the Mythical Narrative As Form.

If you want to understand why Loki has this ability, again, you'll want to read Agent of Asgard, #24 of Thor (2020), and Defenders: Beyond for good measure. The long and short of is that Loki reinvented themselves as the "God of Stories" after undergoing total ego death in order to escape the seeming inevitability of their own story, and avert a catastrophic future in the process. It didn't stop Secret Wars from happening, but after ensuring that Asgard would survive that disaster, this version of Loki slipped outside of reality for a while. In the meantime, a new, but not particularly distinguishable, version of Loki carried on in Earth-616 and achieved a different sort of redemption. In Defenders: Beyond, the God of Stories sought to escape the multiverse entirely, but eventually resolved to re-integrate with their 616 counterpart, and everything came full circle in Immortal Thor, where Loki is now a fully-formed story god and skald.

Amora can't do what Loki does. But with a bit of clever magic and a particularly potent symbol-- the "secret fire," a favorite arc-word of Ewing's, which here refers to the fire at which Loki's predecessor as skald, Bragi, sang his tales--Amora uses shitty corporate-produced comic books to distort Thor's story, thus, distorting Thor. Again, this is more about the narrative than it is concrete magic rules, but there are clear parameters-- Amora's curse only affects Thor on Midgard, because that is where the story has been distorted. The manifestation of "Roxxon Thor" is actually a being called the Keep, which is a remnant of Thor's alter ego, Donald Blake. So, essentially, she took something that was already a shade of Thor and used that, with a bit of story magic, to make a doppelganger.

Oh, and for the record, a skald and a seiðkona are two different things. Loki sort of functions as both, but visually, they are depicted as a seiðkona-- their staff is the ritual distaff called a seiðstafr, which previously belonged to Freyja. In Norse mythology, Freyja is a Vanr goddess who is sometimes said to have taught seiðr to the Æsir, and is shown carrying a distaff.

[genderfluid-info-blog]

Hi can you recommend something with genderfluid characters to play/watch/read ? (Plz i know 1 game , 2 films ,2 weebtoons and like 3 books with us in them I'm starving )

Hi, thank you for this ask, I'm sorry I took so long to answer! Sadly there isn't a lot of representation for us genderfluid folks in the media, but I tried my best to compose a list (keep in mind that I haven't read/seen all of these, so some of the representation might not be the best, sorry about that!!):

Books with genderfluid characters:

Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard triology)

Sallot Leon (Mask Of Shadows, main character)

Lua Novak (At the Edge of the Universe)

Riley Cavanaugh (Symptoms of Being Human, main character)

Harley (The Heartbreak Bakery, main love interest)

Carey (Can't Take That Away, main character)

Ash (Both Can Be True, main character)

Comics with genderfluid characters:

Rose (A Boy Named Rose, main character)

Yasel (Always Human)

Prince Sebastian (The Prince and the Dressmaker, main character)

Loki (Loki: Agent of Asgard, main character (much better representation than in the show!!))

Kitty (Lemonade Summer)

Shows with genderfluid characters:

Sabi (Sort Of, main character)

Loki (Loki, main character, but the genderfluid representation was sadly very little and dissatisfying)

Crowley & Aziraphale (Good Omens, angels & demons are canonically genderless beings but in my opinion there is a lot of genderfluid representation in the show, you can also read the book if you want to!)

Val/entina Romanyszyn (Gen:Lock)