scans_daily

I suspect my name features in the "cerebral Vertigoesque weirdo" section in more than a few editors' rolodexes, so when Jon set up that hanging thread in X-Men #7 -- I think -- of Nightcrawler announcing, "I think I need to create a mutant religion," my name came up. That was an insanely tough brief to tackle, even for someone who, I admit it, is a massive nerd for comparative theology. I've never been the biggest fan of my own work, and there are things I would have handled differently. This was all happening during the hardest, darkest, most emotionally shattering two years of my life -- long story, the short version is "unwell kids" -- I'm pleased with how it turned out. All the same, having created this ultra-flexible doctrine of the Spark, which I've waxed loquacious elsewhere, and will spare you the usual spiel about pluripotent fictional philosophies which don't violate existing faiths; yes, having created all of that, it quite naturally became more interesting to start exploring the characterful interactions that surround it. -- Si Spurrier

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laughing_tree

It's, funnily enough, the doctrine of the cleansing flame, isn't it? The Phoenix of it all. In order to generate new things and new life, you have to have these periods of devastation, and that's the notion behind "Fall of X." We've built this house of cards, we've never pretended that it's perfect, it's clearly got lots of holes in its foundations. Now, finally, somebody has come along and flicked it all down. That's fertile soil to be telling stories in. -- Si Spurrier

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laughing_tree

I'm using the concept of "putting on a costume and saving people" in a way that I don’t think I've ever seen before. But hey, that’s me straying into hifalutin' metaphor territory which the PR people hate. So, let's stick with the swashbuckling joy, bad guy-punching, classic Spidey stuff. And lots of romance. Be thou excite. -- Si Spurrier

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laughing_tree

Mind you, by stunning coincidence, all the flirting and sexytimes in Uncanny Spider-Man — and OMG there are a LOT of those, in fact they’re pretty much constant — revolve specifically around a character with the same unfortunate initials as me. (No, sorry @STRYFEGRENADEHotboi1992, it’s not a story about Nazis, put your trousers back on.) -- Si Spurrier

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laughing_tree

I’ve seen a few of the really shouty angry lonely types gnashing and wailing and skyclawing themselves into venomous little comas over incredulous questions like “why the hell would Nightcrawler dress up like Spider-Man?!” To which I quietly chuckle and mumble under my breath “guys, that’s the stooorrrryyyyy,” before hitting block and going off to swim in my giant bath of money. -- Si Spurrier

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iamrman

All-New Marvel Now! Point One. #1.

A prelude to Loki: Agent of Asgard.

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superboyprime

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laughing_tree

Speaking of ten years down the road, I've only just now regained the desire to write Loki again. With these things where you put a lot into it, a lot of yourself into it... There are characters that you put so much into that you can't come back to them because it hurts. I thought Loki was one of those. I think I've probably got a Loki story in me... -- Al Ewing

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thanekos

The first'd been the beginning.

The second was a continuance.

Hell, thanks to Mephisto's son Blackheart, had come to Earth.

Hell, thanks to Johnny Blaze's use of an acquired relic, was confined to Las Vegas.

Doctor Strange and Daimon Hellstrom considered the problem outside the city.

Inside the city, Johnny Blaze kept the problem at bay, riding against a centrifuge that would pull Earth down to Hell when it stopped.

Inside Blackheart's stronghold, four heroes - Venom, the Red Hulk, X-23, and the Ghost Rider - faced their Antitheses.

( Their battle went out the window, resuming on the ground below. )

Current Music: Despair - Ucchii0

laughing_tree

I was very keen to avoid a lot of the things I'd done in the past that readers hadn't cottoned to. I used to be a big fan of crossovers and tie-ins, for instance, though not any more. I've tried to make this absolutely crossover-proof, so you can sail right through buying just the one comic for the rest of your life and feel like you've missed nothing, even if I'm also writing Hulk in the Defenders one-shots and places like that. -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

"A whole lot of me went into this series and it took a lot out. If I'm honest, I need a break. I'll be glad to let it go.

"I really, really hate to let it go." -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

"LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD #16, that's what! Featuring the new poetic edda! Ragnarok II! And the final fate of the Ten Realms!" -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

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informationgeek

Vertigo is to me what Image Comic seems to be others. While everyone gets excited over whatever Image puts out, Vertigo does that for me. It's produced some my favorite comics of all time (Fables, iZombie, Scalped, Saucer Country, and The Unwritten), but it has been falling on hard times recently. This imprint barely had any new titles at all!

...that is, until just recently...

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laughing_tree

"This isn't like previous incursions, which went by without comment -- this has a unique symbolic weight, because it really is the end, and creatures of story like the Gods can feel that primal ending resonating in their blood and bone." -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

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laughing_tree

"Pain and heartache. This is the part of the story where the wheel of fortune turns and dumps the protagonist right in it. Things have been getting increasingly worse for Loki ever since he came back from the Tenth Realm, and now we're getting to the point of no return. Things are getting dark and unpleasant and shot through with horror in pretty much everything I'm writing at the moment - you'll see it coming up in Captain America & The Mighty Avengers, in Doctor Who, in Judge Dredd, like I'm flushing something out of my system - but arguably Loki has it worst of all. So that's something to look forward to!" -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

"You know, Al Ewing deserves some award for Shared universe writing for the last issue of Loki." -- Kieron Gillen, on issue 10

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astrakhan42

Last issue, Loki was bound and gagged by his older self... are we sure this isn't the slash fic he admitted to writing back in issue 1?

Anyway, King Loki is explaining his plan, and he has some unusual names for some of the most recent adventures. Plus there's a marvelous call-back to Simonson's final issue.

Three panels from from this week's "Loki: Agent of Asgard" #12.

( Context is... For Asgard! For Midgard! For Myself! )

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Uncanny Spider-Man #5 - "Fade to Blue"

Uncanny Spider-Man #4 - "Slice and Dice"

Uncanny Spider-Man #3-4 - "Superpositional"

Uncanny Spider-Man #2-3 - "Blue Streak"

Uncanny Spider-Man #1 - "Park Life"

Language!

Strange #6: The Big Spell

Thor #24 (legacy #750) - "What Comes Next"

Captain Marvel #14

Venom #13.1 was the second part of Circle of Four.

The Immortal Hulk #6 - "Action/Reaction" [+ a bit of #7 too]

Loki: Agent of Asgard #17 - "Out the Gate You Go and Never Stop"

Loki: Agent of Asgard #16 - "Would You Know More?"

Loki: Agent of Asgard #15 - "The Old Army Game"

New Vertigo Books Coming Soon

Loki: Agent of Asgard #14 - "Born One Morning and the Sun Didn't Shine"

Loki: Agent of Asgard #13 - "The Magic Theater"

Loki: Agent of Asgard #12 - "Time Alone Shall Murder All the Flowers"

Loki: Agent of Asgard #10-11 - "Not Forgiven" & "Turn Away and Slam the Door"

Even the writer mocks the crossovers (Loki: Agent of Asgard #12)

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