#agent of asgard comic book

[cleabellanov]

AU in which teens with superpowers ( Marvel fans ) overthrow the government ( Kevin Feige and Disney ) to save their loved ones from the eternal curse they were condemned to (lokius in the season 2 finale)

[magpie-murder]

do not tag as "lady loki"

[vertigoartgore]

2014's Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol.1 #1 variant cover by Olivier Coipel & Marte Gracia.

[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)

[comicbookhyperfixationtime]

All the Lokis in a row, hits me right in the nostalgia.

Immortal Thor (2023) #6 (I think)

[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.

[lelsiemeyers]

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

(excuse the shit camera quality)

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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]

[cleabellanov]

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

[magpie-murder]

verity willis 💫

she’s just so aro

loki: agent of asgard

[beakerhoneydew]

That post from earlier reminded me I haven’t been on my “everyone everywhere needs to read Agent of Asgard” grind in a little while. So hey I’m making a post.

Do you like Loki? Did you watch the MCU Loki show and go “man that was almost good but I wish it was better and an exploration of identity and trauma and actually portrayed Loki as queer ”? Do you like that trope in Avengers fanfic where Loki is just like living in an apartment in New York and hanging out doing stuff and causing mild mischief? Do you like queer stories with genderfuild and aroace characters? BOY do I have a comic for you!

Loki: Agent of Asgard is a 2014 series by Al Ewing that follows Loki’s attempt to prove he’s changed - by completing errands for Asgard in return for the memories of his crimes being erased. Why does he need to prove he’s changed? Because he’s consumed with guilt for killing his reborn child self. Normal comic book stuff yknow.

Ultimately it’s a story about identity, forgiveness, magic, trauma, queerness, and guilt.

Also about what if the God of Lies had a best friend who could see through all lies.

Also about what if Loki lived in Manhattan and could use the internet.

Intrigued? Here’s some of my favorite panels and moments. Shirtless Loki singing Wicked above the cut to entice you further.

[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

[hexhomos]

HI! hope your day is treating you well, i’ve been interested in doomreed for some time but cape comics are sort of daunting to me just because there’s so much content and i really don’t know where to begin. what do you suggest? thank you!

STRAIGHT OUT THE GATE ill say, read [ "My Dinner With Doom" ] (this is a rly high-qual upload, open it up on desktop!)

It's a key issue oneshot with a lil bit of backstory retelling, featuring a private dinner that happens in the 00's - a good entrance point if you're curious about doomreed in summarization + generally speaking a Real Good Comic overall.

LONG POST INCOMING THIS IS A LONG POST / click readmore

the fantastic four are one of marvel's darling old founding teams so there is pretty much... endless archival, ongoing, multimedia and games content popping up all the time.

They are also kinda one of the rare teams where the growth of the characters is consistent? The kids are allowed to grow older and events from every major run are carried/referenced by the next author so if you want to do chronological there's a lot of incentive and fun stuff.

If you wanna dip your toes into the F4 as a concept, check out:

*the #1 issue of Fantastic Four By Waid & Wieringo (1997) *Mythos: Fantastic Four (2007) [ *The FF (1994) movie that is up for free on youtube!! ] *Fantastic Four (2022) by Ryan North as the current ongoing!

(Some) Singles centered on Doom/Doomreed:

*Fantastic Four (1961) Annual 2 is Doom's original backstory issue *Marvel Two-in-One (2017) by Zdarsky issue #11 & Annual #1 are both crazy good but they spoil big events/conclusions from previous runs if u care abt that!!! (My current fav fic came from these issues.) *Doomgate (novel) by Jeffrey Lang is a good option if you want something that is mostly prose, instead of a comic or movie

NOW BEFORE YOU JUMP AHEAD WITH ANYTHING I *am* following [ this reading guide ] which breaks down specific issues relevant to their relationship as a line through all the different authors over the years.

[ There's also this 2021 guide w/ a few other story/AU highlights! The author said u can send the blog questions and theyll answer too ]

The 'Modern era' (late 90s/00s/10s/Now) Starts with Waid and McDuffie's stuff. The latter wrote My Dinner with Doom!

If you're scared by all the names, don't be - when searching for the issues, just pay attention to the year, # number & author/artist creds.

What I'm reading/liveblogging rn is Hickman's Secret wars era, generally regarded as yaoi ketamine; It's a good epic narrative entrance point if you want to jump into it, and it eventually led into this huge marvel event that changed the multiverse and even brought miles morales into the main timeline, so its BIG and it happened in multiple books - the best way to go about it is;

Pre-hickman:

Fantastic Four (1961) #551 #552 #553 ➡️ (these introduce main ideas we will touch again in secret wars)

Fantastic Four (1961) #558 to #562 ➡️

Doom appears in these too, first/last issues more heavily. Stuff here will be ref'd during the next era.

If you're having fun and want to keep reading you can! Just know that the next storyarc has gathered a largely mixed response bc..... its Millar going hammywammy....... not that necessary.......

anyway when you see hickmans name in the cover STOP and

Jump to actual Hickman secret wars era:

Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The complete collection➡️

(optional, side plot) If you like Val + Doom, read specifically; *Fantastic Four (2014) #3 & #5 + Fantastic Four Annual (2014) #1 *Agent of Asgard #6 & #7 *Avengers World (2014) #15 & #16

New Avengers (2013) ➡️ check issues on picture, or, if you're a completionist, look for 'Avengers by Jonathan Hickman; complete collection' and skim for the doom/reed relevant bits. There's a lot of characters here but this is a buildup to the big secret wars. Secret Wars (2015) ➡️ (All issues!) Infamous Iron Man (2016) ➡️bendis' doom writing is not very good but hang in there because right after him: Marvel 2-In-One (2017) ➡️ (All issues!) is a banger. Yaoi btw.

You can basically read all the future/past ones as listed, or starting from the beginning of that author's period without worrying, bc they aren't as indebted to each other storywise.

You can also start somewhere else if you want or check out other single issues on the reading guides; It's not a crime! There's a lot of stuff with different takes and genres, I'm slowly chipping away at the secret wars era bc its just very thick and like a serious television drama attempt, except its also insanely funny sometimes.

(I'm still making my way through it so that's what I have at the moment!)

[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.