Comics Wrap-Up - For Every Time That They Want To Count You Out

 

It's Thursday, I am melting under an 'extreme heat' official weather warning (help,) let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!

TV Shows

The Loki season finale...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OK, I'm done.

No.

Wait-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...OK, now I'm done.

This is still a SPOILER-free zone, but there will be a SPOILER section at the end, which will be clearly labelled, OK? OK

Oh, and, as per usual, it doesn't count as a SPOILER if it's in a trailer. And Queer IDs aren't SPOILERS.

First off - that clock somehow got creepier.

I didn't think that was possible, but somehow we managed it. 

Maybe that was the purpose behind the hotel-from-The-Shining aesthetic at the TVA this whole time - to warn us that there was something creepy af lurking in there!

Speaking of aesthetics - the whole gold-veined-castle chic was really pretty and really gothicky. 10/10, would redecorate bedroom if I thought I could pull it off.

Now, Marvel - didn't we have discussions about you providing me with too much ammo for existential crises?

Because this last episode? This episode 6, right here? This one?

Was chock-full of existential crisis ammo.

Like, I'm not sure if I exist right now Marvel, and it's all your goddamn fault.

And this episode was just chock-full of all sorts of time travel plot f**kery.

Much the plot f**kery. Everywhere.

Like, episode 4 is supposed to be the point where the poop hits the fan dammit! How did you locate this much excess poop for fan-hitting purposes?!

Was anyone else wanting to get Loki a new shirt btw?

Like, his shirt was just getting dirtier and dirtier (and not in a fun way - in a bio-hazard way,) and I'm like, I know you can magic that thing so it doesn't look so goddamn nasty. 

SOMEBODY GET THE BOY A CLEAN SHIRT!

(...my brain is weird, and I make no apologies.)

Also, we're getting a series 2!

Which hopefully will sort out the weird pacing, and cause significantly less existential crises. Oh, and let Owen Wilson say 'woah,' because a whole six episodes of Owen Wilson without a single 'woah' is weird.

SPOILER ZONE SPOILER ZONE SPOILER ZONE!!!!

Beware of SPOILERS!

OK - now. Hear me out.

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When Loki and Sylvie go to see Kang and he's all like, 'you have two choices' - why tf did they only consider those two choices? 

Just 'cos he said there's only two?! Cos he's not exactly proved himself trustworthy until this point.

Cos if it was me, and I was given the choice of 

a) kill Kang and allow a multiverse to exist, 

- or -

b) don't kill Kang and take over the running of the TVA as it was before, 

I'm gonna go with c) don't kill Kang, take over the running of the TVA - but -

- instead of letting it carry on as before, you slowly start to let new universes emerge in a semi-controlled fashion, allowing for more as time progresses.

You use the institutional structure of the TVA to prevent multiversal interaction and locate dangerous Kang variants.

And then if it turns out there's sh** Kang didn't tell you (because I get the feeling there would be,) then you can slap him and/or threaten to stab him until he spills the beans and helps you. 

Which you can't do with option a) because... well... dead.

Order and chaos, beautifully combined. #SorryNotSorry.

...Don't tell me Loki wouldn't come up with a different solution, or Sylvie wouldn't come up with a solution, or they wouldn't come up with one together.

Because if Yours Truly's first answer to a multiple-choice is 'none of the above,' then you can guarantee that a Loki would be setting fire to that false dichotomy immediately.

Also, why, Sylvie, why?

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He basically told you that he'd let you do whatever so long as you took a breath and thought through the potential ramifications.

WTF was so unreasonable about that? Argh!

END OF SPOILER ZONE END OF SPOILER ZONE END OF SPOILER ZONE!!!!

Other Stuff

Check out this review of manga The Vampire and His Companions, Vol 1, over at Kit's blog, Metaphor and Moonlights

And to end, as is traditional, with some shameless self-promo, you can check out what I thought of episode 5 of Loki on Medium here, or right here on Dora Reads in last week's Comics Wrap-Up here.

What did you think of the last episode of Loki?

What are you planning to watch now?

If you haven't seen Loki, are you planning to?

Talk to me! 😊💬

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Previous Comics Wrap-Up Posts:

• Comics Wrap-Up - And Trouble's Gonna Follow Where I Go

• Comics Wrap-Up - I Need A Drink, Whiskey Ain't My Thing

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