Stan Lee's Amazing Spider-Man: Spidey in Asgard

[cyberghostface]

Continuing from last week's installment, in which the idiotic Thor kidnapped Mary-Jane and brought her to Asgard...

Comments

[mesmiranda]

Someone should probably treat Odin for narcolepsy at this point.

[crinos]

Yeah, The writers seem to really like the whole "Odin goes to sleep for a week, bad guys come in and take over" bit lately don't they?

I mean first the cartoon, then the movie, and now the comic strip?

Is this something from the comics? Cause it seems terribly inconvenient for your God King to conk out to sleep for a week every year, especially since Loki is always there to capitalize on it.

[randyripoff]

Yes, it's a standard plot going back to the Silver Age. Several early major Thor plots hinged on Odin being asleep.

[grazzt]

They also used it in one of the video games: Ultimate Alliance, I believe.

[crinos]

I knew that whole plot hinged on Doom Stealing Odin's power, but IIRC Odin wasn't asleep at the time (could be wrong, its been a while since I played that game.)

[grazzt]

You may be right, it's been a while for me, too. I could have sworn the Odinsleep was the reason why Odin wasn't part of the defense of Asgard. However, I can't find anything through Google or Gamefaqs. They did mention the Odinsleep, since it is one of the trivia questions, but it may have been just something dropped at random by someone.

[jkcarrier]

Yup, the "Odinsleep" dates back to the old Lee/Kirby comics. As you say, a very obvious plot device to keep the supremely powerful guy off the field so that Thor has something to do.

[blackruzsa]

I'd love to see something where they attempt a takeover while Odin's awake, but can't do anything about it. :/

[cricharddavies]

It's been done.

Loki used the Absorbing Man as a soldier, since he could absorb anything Odin threw at him. He then told Odin that he'd call him off if Odin suffendered the scepter of power to him. So Odin did that, and Loki got the scepter and went all "ha ha I win" while Thor facepalms. Then Creel tried to grab the scepter from Loki, and they started wrestling over it. At which point Odin noted that giving up his scepter did not mean giving up his powers, and sent them both flying off into the cosmos.

It wasn't a very good story.

[blackruzsa]

That's the thing though ): Odin still won in the end. I want something where the Allfather's genuinely overpowered, and doesn't become the deus ex machina character who ends all, I want there to be someone more powerful/more desperate/smarter/else than the Allfather to fix things.

Or, alternately, they can realize that without Loki to fix their mistakes, they're screwed as screwed is screwed (talking about mythology here since Loki seems to be their biggest problem in the comicsverse).

[darth_cloudo]

So...how come Mary Jane was weakened in Asgard, but Peter wasn't? Fun story, though. :D

[cyberghostface]

It's handwaved that he's a superhuman.

[darth_cloudo]

Haha, fair enough. xD

[randyripoff]

I think that's the first time I've ever seen any Asgardian other than Thor (Heimdall) actually use his noggni and defy Odin's wishes for the better good.

[sherkahn]

Ahhhh, the good stuff. Not as sophisticated as some of the other stuff out there, but it doesn't have to be.

[terabient]

that panel with Spidey celebrating the happy ending is just the best.

[seisachtheia]

So Loki's plan is to put all the Asgardians into magical comas and then not to revive them until they swear allegiance. There is a flaw in this plan.

[celestialchild]

The Dilemma Hath Horns.

The Dilemma Hath Horns.

No but really, how does anybody take Thor seriously when he speaks the way he does.

[kraesil]

The Asgardians probably take each other seriously?

[cypherfdp]

Canon.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Good stuff. This is one Spider-man I can get behind, redundancy notwithstanding.

And since I don't know a better place to put in a request here: I just finished watching Linkara's 200th episode of Atop the Fourth Wall, where he reviewed One More Day. Fun stuff.

But one part I didn't quite recognize, though it sounds familiar: He noted that in-- I think it was Avengers Academy-- there was a bit where Spider-man was teaching a class or something and the students were basically coming up with all of these ways that Spider-man could have been using his talents to earn a good living.

Do we have any scans of that around here?