Magik was an original member of the team, thus, I own most of them until she left. Doug joins later during Necrosha.
The storylines and tie-ins this title had were :
Return of Legion
Necrosha
Siege
Second Coming
Fall of the New Mutants
Rise of the New Mutants
Age of X
Unfinished Business
Fear Itself
Exiled
Fear the Future
Fight the Future
The creative team for the series have been :
1, 2, 3, 4 – Zeb Wells and Diogenes Neves
5 – Zeb Wells and Zachary Baldus6, 7, 8 – Zeb Wells and Diogenes Neves
9, 10 – Zeb Wells and Paul Davidson
11 – Kieron Gillen and Niko Henrichon
12, 13, 14 – Zeb Wells and Ibraim Roberson
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 – Zeb Wells and Leonard Kirk
22, 23, 24 – Mike Carey and Steve Kurth
25, 26, 27 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and Leandro Fernandez
28 -Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and Michael Ryan
29, 30, 31, 32 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and David Lafuente
33, 34, 35, 36, 37 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and David Lopez
38, 39, 40 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and Leandro Fernandez
41 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and David Lopez
42, 43 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning with Kieron Gillen and Carmine Di Giandomenico
44, 45, 46 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and Leandro Fernandez
47, 48, 49, 50 – Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and Felix Ruiz with Klebs
Pretty cool how they kept getting artists back to the title, it really does add synergy.
I have 13 issues on my wishlist, most of them are Variant covers –
1 – Ross, Benjamin, McLeod, 2nd Printing
4 – 70th Anniversary Frame Variant
6 – Zombie Variant
10 – Deadpool Variant
13 – Heroic Age Variant
15 – Art Adams Variant17 – Regular Cover (I own the Variant) Magik is on the regular cover, so that’s why I still want it
24 – Regular Cover
25 – Art Adams Variant
37 – Regular Cover
So I really just want 24 and 37 as I’ve already read issue 17. But it would be nice to knock off some of these variants one day.
Artists Felix Ruiz (pages 1 – 6, 19 – 25) and Klebs (7 – 18)
Colorist Val Staples with Jesus Aburto
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Dated December 2012
Cover Artist John Tyler Christopher
Final Issue!
The New Mutants, from the cast page, are – Dani, Sunspot, Magma, X-Man, Blink, Cypher and Warlock.
Issue opens with a page of Tyro, a fellow member of Warlock’s people – the Phalanx. Tyro is trying to fight off his father, who is co-habitating in his body. That is one of the aspects of that species, the son is meant to kill the father. Warlock didn’t to and it appears Tyro, also had difficulty. Everything I know about Tyro, comes from this issue.
San Francisco. Cannonball, Sunspot and X-Man are trying to grill outside. Sam doesn’t know how to light a grill, so he over does it and destroys it.
Magma shows up, rightly insulted that she wasn’t originally asked to help, and creates a mini volcano so the boys can grill. Good for her! Plus, I always enjoy seeing mutants using their powers in practical ways.
Karma, with both legs, and Dani are making a salad. Doug is still moping about.
Look at all the people who showed up!
Kitty is taking a picture that she isn’t included in, so she should turn around and take the picture properly. But then, we wouldn’t know that Kitty was in this issue.
What I like most about this issue is that it really is the combination of everything that came before.
Doctor Strange shows up.
Cannonball interrupts a conversation that Dani and Nate were having. I am not sure if those two were an official couple, I do know they flirted but that doesn’t mean anything.
The Disir, from the Exiled storyline, show up.
Doug speaks with team therapist, Mr.Grim.
Mephisto, in a more human form, but still red, shows up. He is still trying to pursue Magma. Sunspot gets jealous, like he do. Magma thinks he is sweet and kisses him on the lips. These two are always on and off, but never officially on.
Wolverine tells Dani that that the New Mutants have successfully accomplished Xavier’s dream of unity.
We are reminded of Cyclops’ goal for the New Mutants – to clean up the mess that the X-Men leave behind.
Then the action sequence of the issue begins, as Tyro has crashed into the backyard.
We are treated to a pretty impressive double splash page of all the heroes coming together to fight Tyro.
Doug saves the day by using his knowledge of the future to calm Tyro and deletes his father’s programming from his system.
Everybody goes back and enjoys the barbeque.
In a rare instance, the cover image actually happens in the issue. I like how it is the first image we see and the last.
Covers use to reflect the contents of the issue but nowadays, they work more as mini posters than as a preview of what is to come.
There is an ad for Avengers that sports Cannonball and Sunspot as members. That Sam, always earning his big league status. From what I have read, they are essentially the comedy relief.
Dani joins Fearless Defenders.
Karma joins Astonishing X-Men.
Warlock and Doug take a year off, before joining All New X-Factor.
Not sure what happens to Magma or to X-Man and Blink, for that matter.
Shame that Magik couldn’t make it to this final issue.
The last issue of the series I own, is issue 45 so something clearly happened between the two issues. I believe it was issue 46. I know this is the continuation of that last arc so things wrapped up and the New Mutants made it out safely.
in San Francisco, at a Ribstickers BBQ restaurant – which I’m not familiar with – the New Mutants are enjoying a meal after returning from the future where they fought TrueFriend, who was Doug at his most evil.
The New Mutants are – Dani, Sunspot, Magma, X-Man, Cypher, Warlock and Blink. Not the worst line up. That is from the credit page, Sunspot and Karma are also on the team. Not sure why they only went with seven faces when there is nine.
Apparently, Magma almost got a job at this restaurant. Though, why she would need a job and no one else, is beyond me. Doesn’t sound intriguing enough to warrant a Google search.
Also, when the waiter serves you your food, they have to say – Ribstickers hopes it all sticks to your ribs. I would hate that after my third visit there. Especially, as I’m sure, some of the wait staff would hate doing this, 70 times a day and won’t be able to hide it.
Cannonball appreciates that they all get to sit and share a meal together, they don’t get this opportunity too often. All it took was a megalomaniac ruler to do it. Dani tells Sam that he just ruined the mood as that ruler was Doug. Sam apologizes and Doug is clearly worried if that is what the future has in store for him.
Doug notices that something isn’t quite right but the team chalks it up to the time travel. Nate Gray, X-Man, who I don’t remember being this fun during his solo ongoing from the 90s, makes a great reference to his own situation. Time travel is weird, you can go back in time and only be ten years younger than your father and have a niece from a possible future timeline that may or may not never exist.
Blink makes a toast and they all cheer.
Jean Grey School. Doug is being looked over by Beast. Beast believes what Doug is feeling is a hangover. He is a light weight. Doug isn’t sure that is what it is but is glad that nothing is overly wrong with him. Beast gives Doug some pills for the hangover.
Kitty shows up and is glad that Doug is feeling better. Doug turns in shame. Kitty offers to them that they can stay at the school for as long as they want. Dani says that is a nice offer but they agreed to stick with Cyclops after the split. This confuses Kitty as Cyclops and Wolverine only had a little argument and the school was the compromise.
This all makes sense to Doug now, they are in an alternate timeline! The restaurant’s color scheme was wrong, Kitty’s X is on the wrong side (though it is a completely different costume, altogether) – he needs to figure out what else is different.
This is what Kitty Pryde looks like in the alternate timeline.
Greenwich Village. The New Mutants, minus Doug, are at Doctor Strange’s house. Who knew that when I made that order at Mile High Comics that I would have gotten three comics with Doctor Strange in them? I wonder how many other appearances of the good Doctor do I own now?
Doctor Strange is in not good shape. He’s gone a tad bit crazy as he first detected the change in the timeline but no one believed him. Others who also felt the change have gone insane or killed themselves.
When Blink teleports the team, it looks just like Magik’s stepping discs and it is this that makes me realize that this team always needs a teleporter.
Apparently, Doctor Strange and the Defenders helped the New Mutants out on a previous adventure but this isn’t the same timeline.
Jean Grey School. Kitty is checking on Doug, who hasn’t taken a break in a long time. This new timeline doesn’t make any sense. It has contradictions and paradoxes, the timeline was created and forced together.
Karma brings Face, one of the Inferno babies who is now all grown up from the last storyline Magik was in, maybe twenty issues ago, I guess he’s been traveling with the team this entire time.
Face sees Doug, and freaks out and blasts at him. Doug gets tackled to the ground, just missing the blast.
Once the dust clears, Kitty announces that Karma (still with both legs!) is dead!
Though I’m not sure how that could have happened and Face pushed her behind him before the blast but oh noes!
Don’t worry, Karma gets better as she is a later member of the final Astonishing X-Men cast. That’s all I know.
The next issue I own is issue 50, the series finale so we will have to try to figure out how this story concludes with who is left standing at the beginning of that issue. I have plans to review issue 50 relatively soon.
Speaking of which, this is – of course – one of the Marvel 25th Anniversary cover!
Just like the Transformers issue, Carlin does a great job of introducing the characters by having everyone state their name or address the other person by their full time. Sometimes both.
Issue opens with Prince Adam and Orko having a friendly competition with Rio Blast and Snout Spout. I feel like I own Rio Blast’s action figure but I know for sure that I own Snout Spout, Prince Adam and Orko.
Seeing Prince Adam’s sword, took me right back to being a kid and how the art team did a great job of making everyone look just like their action figure plus accessories!
Rio Blast mistakes Snout Spout’s nose for a snake and we get the first of three references (in two pages!) that he really hates snakes. Which makes sense as Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom is still fresh on people’s mind.
Rio Blast isn’t going to have a good time as this issue is titled, Snakes Alive!
At one point, Prince Adam calls Orko, Ork and that doesn’t seem right. Did he do that on the cartoon? I get that it makes it seem like they are friends but it sounds wrong in my head.
So the winning duo are named, but they keep bickering with each other.
Meanwhile, at Snake Mountain. Which is the right name, but looks nothing like the cartoon. Here it is like a small village, whereas the cartoon has it being a giant mountain, the shape of a snake.
Skeletor is tired of coming up with all the schemes. He brings in Kobra Khan. He tells Skeletor about the legendary Snake Men.
I own these toys – King Hiss, Tung Lashor and Rattlor.
Kobra Khan came with a pack on his back that would spray water.
King Hiss, from the waist up, will break off – revealing a torso of snakes.
The Snake Men agree to help Skeletor find He-Man, in hopes that the hero will help them thwart Skeletor and they can be the Masters of the Universe.
They find our heroes and capture Cringer.
Adam was about to transform when Rio Blast and Snout Spout shows up to help. The duo split up and Adam does his thing.
How amazing does that page look? Wilson and Janke really did an excellent job with this entire issue.
The duo even split up from each other, they bicker that much!
Orko, unlike the cartoon, is able to successfully perform magic and teleports the two to Snake Mountain.
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I owned Castle Grayskull and my wife was cool enough to own Snake Mountain. If only we knew each other then. We also own She-Ra’s palace.
I also owned Skeletor’s two gauntlets, Snap-Dragon.
He-Man gets distracted by the Snake Men and Skeletor grabs his sword of power.
The duo are now regretting splitting from each other, almost as if there is a lesson there!
Skeletor sends the Snake Men to fight the duo. The heroes, once united, defeats them. Rio Blast is able to overcome his disdain for snakes.
Orko casts another spell, giving He-Man, his sword back.
Orko wants He-Man to kill Skeletor. He-Man isn’t going to do that. Weirdly, Skeletor says aloud, “He is stalling! He never ends our conflicts. Curse you!” Does Skeletor want He-Man to kill him? Bizarre!
There is a page of Spider-Man saving a kid who was trying to crawl down a wall. Don’t do that kids!
The Snake Men leave. Snout Spout grabs Skeletor, but he vanishes. The day is saved.
Pretty good issue, brought tons of memories back for me. Now I am in a mood for more He-Man!
This website has the entire comic, you have to work to read it in page order but still, a great resource.
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I can’t do a He-Man post without having the awesome theme song represented!
Thanks to YouTuber Its a Blast from the Past for hosting the video!
Also, one of my favorite aspects of the franchise is the He-Man / She-Ra Secret of the Sword origin story. Mostly for the incredible song that I can never get tired of, and I am happy to finally have an excuse to post it on here.
Thanks to YouTuber silvap for hosting it! Love how the film makers went all out to make the opening sequence feel like a real movie.
So cheesy but I love it so much.
YouTuber gutz1981 compiled the entire movie and put it on YouTube. That’s pretty thoughtful!
Not as cheesy as the Christmas special. Oh man, that is terrific too!
YouTuber He-Man Official is hosting that video as well! I remember learning that He-Man’s mother is from Earth blowing my mind.
I’ll end this revisit to my childhood mentioning the Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lundgren and a young Courtney Cox.
Thanks YouTuber kegorogers for hosting the movie trailer.
The film is okay, and I get why Orko and Battle Cat are not present and that they had to get Earth involved as non-cartoon lovers wouldn’t see a movie based entirely on the children’s cartoon.
If you watch it as if it was a lame adaption of a beloved animated series or as a weak Jack Kirby’s Fourth World film.
Apparently they are in development for another He-Man film but I will believe it once casting officially begins.
There has been additional He-Man cartoons.
Thanks to YouTuber joezilla1995 for hosting this video, bless you!
1990’s New Adventures of He-Man – no good
Thanks to YouTuber CartoonIntro, the animation is very good!
The 2002 series, which was interesting but I couldn’t get over the fact that I may be too old for it now. Plus, I feel like Cartoon Network moved it around the schedule too much and I didn’t have a DVR to just record new episodes easily. Now, I could totally follow it.
I pretty much only own this for the article regarding the 1993 Annuals, that I’m obsess with. Owning this now, means that I own every appearance by Khaos of Excalibur Annual 1 fame.
More information about the annuals can be found here :
I really like this handbook – it is one of those ones that isn’t just a picture of a character and a summary of who they are. It is done in a very clever way. It feels like we are looking through the character’s eyes at his desk and what he is seeing.
The jist of this issue is that Ian McNee, a sorcerer, has this Tarot Deck that was given to him by Doctor Strange. He has had it for a decade and now he is noticing that magic is falling apart.
This issue serves as a jumping on point for the Mystic Arcana series of one shots. I own only a few of them. This one, the Magik issue and the proper Handbook.
There is this cool opening page of the four elements and Magik represents air.
Black Knight is Earth. Scarlet Witch is Water. Sister Grimm is Fire.
Magik’s Limbo and the Winding Way are referenced as The Archipelago of Anguish and Redemption.
This poor stylish Handbook regarding magic in the Marvel Universe, had to make a reference to the Superhero Civil War. For shame
The Winding Way gets its own page. On it, Amanda Selfton, her mother and Nightcrawler are referenced. Amanda’s time as Magik is mentioned, as well as, that her tenure in the role may be coming to an end. Which it really is.
Then on page 31, we see that Magik is the face on the Justice card. Except for when it is Valkeryie, both characters were dead at the time, so is unsettling.
Here is the collection of the Tarot cards that has Magik on it. There is some simply amazing art in this.
The rest of the issue is pretty interesting as well. I am not much of a magic type of reader but even trying to skim the issue just for Magik references, there is a lot of time and effort that went into designing this issue and researching it as well.
On June 21, Ian McNee first notices the Tarot cards are broken.
On July 7, 2007 – he starts doing the research into the cards and keeping track of it in his journal.
Such a fun miniseries! A legendary team forms in the Marvel Universe!
Can you believe that this sold so well that they had to do a second printing? That’s so awesome! That is with variant covers as well!
The variant is just taken from the first page, then the Pet Avengers are added to the side from the interior art.
Issue opens with some back story on the Infinity Gems :
Mind, boosts mental power and permits access to all thoughts.
Space, existence in any location.
Reality, all dreams can be fulfilled.
Time, control over then and now.
Soul, allows user to steal, manipulate or alter souls living and dead.
Power, contains all energy that has or will exist.
Thanos had them on a fancy gauntlet, but no longer.
Turns out, Reed Richards was explaining this to fellow Illuminati member, Black Bolt and his wife, Medusa. Reed believes one of the gems is on the Blue Area of the Moon, where the Inhumans live.
Lockjaw has found the gem, he comes running in, licking Reed’s face. They dismiss the giant dog, like jerks, and he teleports away as the gem activates. Lockjaw found the Mind gem.
Central Park. New York City. Lockjaw has found Throg. The gem activates again, so now the two animals can communicate.
Throg gives his sad origin, drawn by Colleen Coover. I like how his human name is, Simon Walterson. Get it?
There is a reference to the great Frog / Rat war that was referenced in Doctor Strange Volume Three Issue 2.
Throg agrees to join the mission of seeking the gems.
We have come to the best part of this series. When it was announced at the con, I had hoped Lockheed was going to be a member. Not only is he a member, he is one of the bigger names. The cover sort of ranks them from most important to least. Lockheed should be higher, of course.
Ideally, I would like to break the panels out individually, as I want to have every Lockheed appearance chronicled on this blog. I just don’t know how to do that, so full pages will have to do.
Westchester, New York. Lockheed is sad, all of his fellow members of the Flock are dead. He was able to cope with that with his friendship with Kitty Pryde. This series takes place after Giant Size Astonishing X-Men 1.
It is nice that, not only do the X-Men let Lockheed stay at the Mansion, they kept Kitty’s room, too.
Lockheed is lost and sad, which I really like that each member of the team has a distinct personality.
Lockheed joins the team, not to be a hero, but in the name of his fallen teammates.
Brooklyn, New York. They recruit Redwing, who I really like in this series. He is constantly referring to his partnership with Falcon and how he knows Captain America. Redwing is an Avenger like how Lockheed is an X-Man.
Due to Redwing being a bird, he feels superior to the other animals as he can fly.
Queens, New York. Speedball’s cat, Hairball, is recruited. He is being chased by Aunt May’s male dog, Ms. Lion. Hairball hates the dog.
There is an ad for Claremont’s X-Men Forever – which will be the only place to see Kitty and Lockheed together.
Hairball’s real name is Niels and he has the same powers of Speedball, they can bounce.
Throg offers membership to Hairball, he wants to eat the bird. Redwing takes offense to this, naturally.
Ms. Lion wants to come along.
Hairball objects to this. He hates dogs, which I like how fast he realizes that Lockjaw is also a dog.
Ms. Lion knows that Peter is Spider-Man.
I love the long pause above. Such a good series.
Lockjaw accepts Ms. Lion into the group.
Now that they have nearly everybody, they go to the second gem location.
The Savage Land.
I like that Redwing tries to be friends with Lockheed, as they are both flyers. Unfortunately, Lockheed is too depress to make friends. Don’t worry, he stops being overly Eeyore-ish, eventually.
They find the second gem, Reality, I believe. Lockheed is given this one to hold.
Issue ends with the team getting attacked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Next issue, they will get their final member. We will get around to reviewing the rest one of these days.
I was really hoping that this series’ success would have lead to a plush Lockheed and better, an animated film or seriee, at least. Would have been easy to adapt. Still is.
By this point, I had stopped buying New Mutants as Magik had graduated to the big league and was a member of Cyclops’ Extinction Team. I had heard this was a great crossover, with it winning the Best Crossover Award over at the Comic Book Resources X-Books forum.
This was at the time when the Asgardians were living in Broxton, Oklahoma. I’m not sure why they are there, I vaguely remember it was due to that being where they were reborn after Ragnarok. My only interaction with it was during the Siege crossover as that is where the bulk of the story takes place.
The cast of characters are :
Journey into Mystery – Loki / Thor / Hela / Tyr / Leah / Fandral / Volstagg / Hogun
New Mutants – Warlock / Sunspot / Magma / Cypher / Dani / X-Man
The recap page is done by a young boy who is doing it as if it was a board game, which makes sense in the middle of the comic when we see him again. This is the only part of the crossover that I own (or will own) so any unanswered questions are just going to have to be that. Though it does a decent job of exposing the world.
This issue opens with the New Mutants, in San Francisco, and some people have disappeared, as Dani says. Doug corrects her, a running theme of the issue, that when gods disappear – they are banished. oh Doug, learn to read a room!
Dani wants to call the Broxton police as they will know who to contact in the Asgardian community to let them know that Aesir and Disir are either dead or banished.
Dani’s next step, and the reason why I bought this, is to go to Utopia and get Magik. Magik can trace the energy signature and be able to send the team after the trail. Sunspot pipes up stating that she is their resident magical guru.
Just then, they are home again and eating Doug’s muffins. They are acting as if that’s what they have been doing this entire time. Actually, the muffins are from next door but Doug is going to use his power as food is a language and he can get the receipe via eating it. I’m not sure if that is how his power can actually do, I know it is in a comic and he said it but from what I’ve read Abnett & Lanning, collectively known as DnA (their first names – though I do wonder if Lanning ever doesn’t care for it as it is essentially just Abnett’s initials), they really pushed Doug’s power to some high limits.
Dani also questions if that is how his powers works, which may be a meta message as Gillen might be questioning his partner writers in Doug’s powers.
X-Man walks into the room and slaps the muffin out of Dani’s hands (he’s a jerk!) and he explains how today is Saturday and the last thing everyone should remember is that it was only Friday night mere seconds ago. Doug pipes up that he can also see that time has been rewritten.
Dani starts speaking aloud, about how Sigurd had unrolled a piece of paper. To which Doug corrects her that it is called, a scroll. Oh Doug, if you ever had a chance with Dani – you are losing it!
The doorbell rings and there is a blonde mechanic outside, apologizing for the delay in fixing their vehicle. He’s speaking with the Asgardian font – which get use to it as once we leave the team, everyone talks in that font.
The mechanic had to repair the church and so that caused the delay in their car repair so he knock a few hundred dollars off. The church is where a woman support group meets, which that group gets mention later in the issue as well.
Magma is given the keys to the car, as they are mesmerized by the mechanic. He is force to comment on how they are just staring at the poor guy. He leaves as he is given no response.
Once he is gone, Sunspot shouts that was Thor and they all run after the mechanic. The mechanic has made it to his garage, so the New Mutants must have been staring off at him for quite some time.
I’m being confused by the setting of the story, are they in San Francisco or are they in Braxton with the Asgardians? Or is there a weird divide and they can be in two locations at the same time? I’m sure those types of answers were established in the first story.
So the New Mutants confront the mechanic, he laughs at being called, Thor. He is a blonde mechanic with a giant hammer, he gets a lot. He also makes a reference to the awesome Elizabeth Shue film, Adventures in Babysitting.
Thanks to YouTuber geligniteandallies for hosting the video!
Yes, that is Vincent D’Onofrio! He’s going to be the Kingpin in the Netflix Daredevil series.
I still wonder what made the scriptwriter, David Simkins, write Thor into the script. So funny now, back in 1987, Marvel would have let anyone use their characters (hence the reason why FOX owns X-Men and Fantastic Four and Sony has Spider-Man) but Disney made Adventures in Babysitting (via Touchstone Pictures) and now they own Marvel, so they can have Thor be in all of their films. If only!
Speaking of Thor, I like the character, I just have some caveats. I like him on Earth, for the most part. I get he’s an Asgardian but I have no real interest in the day to day of that. I mostly like him in team environments or when he is surrounded by other known characters, like in a crossover event. The only time I ever bought his solo ongoing was after Heroes Return when Dan Jurgens (of Superman fame) and John Romita Jr. was on art. That was such a great series! Plenty of guest stars and they did do Asgard but they made it interesting.
Anyway, what I’m getting at is that I really like Adventures in Babysitting and I’m surprised it took this long to make a reference to it in Thor related comic. Unless it happens more than I know but I doubt it.
So the Asgardians (who I’m not sure know that they are Asgardians or if they fake it in case people are ease dropping) dress in everyday clothes and have regular jobs. Fandral enters the garage and speaks with Thor about the mistaken identity. Fandral’s name is Andy and Thor’s is Arthur (get it?)
In another house, young children named, Luke and Leia (yep) are in their house alone. Luke is playing a board game of strategy and Leia is tired of him playing with himself (the comic makes the joke!). I get the impression that Luke is the one who is behind all of the mysterious goings on.
Leia gets bored of him and goes into their mother’s recycling truck as she just showed up. Helen shouts, bring out your dead (so she must be Hela) and Leia comments on how that makes everyone around them uncomfortable.
Luke apparently was dragged along on this quest. He goes into a bakery as he wants some glazed doughnuts. We see that Volstagg is the baker and that he has eaten all the glazed doughnuts as his face, belly and hands are covered in glaze.
A blonde lady enters the bakery (this must be the same baker that Doug was talking about) looking for the gluten-free, unseeded, non-dairy, unsugared, unleavened buns. Volstagg, of course, hasn’t eaten those and thus, the buns are available. She is buying them for the support group.
There is a cute moment when the blonde lady says that Volstagg looks delicious and he asks her to repeat it and she says the buns look delicious.
Luke leaves disappointed and gets chased by a dog.
Tiffany offers Luke to join her self-defense class and he turns her down. Another man states that he is happy with that decision as Luke is already a handful.
Luke runs into the New Mutants. Apparently, he is a fan of them. He is glad that he ran into them as he was thinking of stalking them. He likes that they are hated and feared and wonders if that means they get better service now. Poor Luke is hated but he’s not feared.
Luke goes on to comment about how he is half mutant and sent in an application to the Jean Grey School. Then he doesn’t know if that is insulting or not, and asks them which side (of the Schism) are they on.
Dani tries to put a stop to this one sided conversation but Luke keeps going on about how he was Wolverine for Halloween.
Dani finally breaks in and says that he is Loki. Which didn’t even dawn on me. Maybe because I’ve been saying it to myself as Luke in the traditional sense but sometimes the caption boxes call him “Luc” like “Look” which would make more sense.
Luke / Loki states that she has the wrong guy. So in the previous issue, is when Loki become Kid Loki – and started on his path of capturing the hearts and minds of comic fans. Dani is a Valkyrie and can see Kid Loki for who he really is. She tries to remind him about Sigurd and what happened the previous night.
Doug announces that he is the trickster of Asgard and no spell can hold him back. Poor Kid Loki goes into a spasm.
Magma gets bad at Doug, he was only trying to do what Magik would have done in this situation.
Kid Loki now remembers who he rightfully is. He wants a helmet to fell complete again.
Dani wants answers, Kid Loki tells them that they need to all go to Sigurd’s abode and search for clues – just like they do on television.
At Sigurd’s place. Doug has found some armor. Sunspot found a bunch of take-out food. Kid Loki arrives in a Grant Morrison styled X-Uniform. which is way to big for him.
Sigurd shows up, he’s hungry. Dani starts asking a slew of questions. She wants to know what happened to the Disir. Whenever Sigurd says the name, it is written D-i-s-i-r, I have no idea the significance of that.
Apparently the Disir eat Asgardians, so they are the woman who are starving themselves. So he cast a spell that made all Asgardians forget who they are. Magma states that there were good Asgardians who now don’t know who they are. Sigurd’s only response is that that is a shame. Dani’s comeback of, you took out one of the greatest heroes in history and all you can say for yourself is that it is a shame. That’s a funny line!
Sigurd isn’t a magician, he bought the spell so the dealer should have a counter-spell.
Kid Loki needs some time to come up with a counter-spell.
Sigurd starts hitting on Dani, she is the hot one of the group, even with Magma standing right there. Oh, the irony!
In an alley, a dog is barking at a cat. The blonde from the bakery picks up the cat and devours it. So the Disir are cats, I guess? Now the starving women have something to eat, they should all be happy!
That’s how the issue ends, seems like it should be a pretty good story but I’m out of it.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 