Loki: Agent of Asgard #7
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doomfansThe continuation of last month's story...
We resume where we left off, with Loki trapped in a block of frozen time, which Doom decides to install in the art room. ("Sculpture composed of time machine and other materials. Victor Von Doom, 2014.") Valeria asks if they can have ice-cream later. "Doom will consider your request." She says that means yes and hopes that they'll have strawberry. The Valeria and Uncle Doom relationship continues to be the most awesome idea anybody came up with in years.
When Doom is gone, Val reveals that she knows Verity is there, since she has an invisible mom and is used to that sort of thing. (She asks if Verity is "doing kissing" with Loki, which she considers to be involved in a statistically significant amount of bad decisions by adults: "Frankly, I don't approve.") Val tells Verity about future Loki destroying the world, and Verity's truth-detecting abilities tell her Val's not lying.
Meanwhile, Doom is alerted to the rioting going on in the Eastern Quarter. He gets angry with the Latverians when they defy him, and demands to know who's behind the rebellion. He jumps to blaming Richards and starts to stew on the F4's previous attacks on him, thinking that he can use Valeria for revenge before he snaps out of it and realises he's under telepathic attack and the hate doesn't originate with him. He manages to magically track it back to its source, the Red Skull, but his people are still under the influence.
Verity is able to detect the telepathic attack because she can sense lies ("someone's lying to me in my head...") Val also notices that she's much more angry with her dad than usual. Verity convinces Val to let Loki out: they need his weapon, Gram, the sword of truth, to break the influence. (Verity: "What makes hate easy?" Val: "Mommy and daddy." Loki: "Harsh! But yes.") Val sets up a device that Loki can stab with the sword, allowing everybody to feel its effects and be shown the truth. (Loki is tormented and sorry for his crimes; Doom refuses to acknowledge that whatever he's being shown about himself is true at all.)
The people of Latveria are freed, and Doom declares Verity a trusted ally of Doom. (Loki: "Wow. Have fun on all those terrorist watch lists.") Doom says his business with Loki is not done, but that's when Magneto shows up. He tells them they can either watch the Red Skull burn the world or fight him for it: it's time to go to war.
To be continued in Axis #3, or... somewhere. (Honestly I have no idea what's going on in this event or how many books, tie-ins, whatever there are, what's coming out when, or anything. Totally confused.)
But anyway, another great issue! Lots of fantastic touches, from little comedy details like what appears to be an "All You Need is Doom" variant of "All You Need is Love" playing in Doom's art room, to the characterisation note of Doom being able to throw off the Red Skull's mind control but also equally stubbornly throwing off the truth ray that's trying to confront him with the reality of his past sins. Plus almost every line of Valeria's dialogue is gold. I really want an Al Ewing-penned Doom and Valeria book now. And I kind of wish we'd had the chance to see more of Val interacting with Loki. Missed opportunity!
The art here seems maybe a little more sketchy than last issue in places, in terms of detail of facial expressions and the like, but it's still pretty nice, and there's some lovely atmospheric colouring in the scenes of Latveria at night.
All in all, great stuff - I just wish this Red Skull storyline wasn't part of an event that means hopping between different books and different writers to find out what happens next, because I'm really not sure to pick up or whether there'll be enough of a Doom appearance to bother. Events, bah.
We resume where we left off, with Loki trapped in a block of frozen time, which Doom decides to install in the art room. ("Sculpture composed of time machine and other materials. Victor Von Doom, 2014.") Valeria asks if they can have ice-cream later. "Doom will consider your request." She says that means yes and hopes that they'll have strawberry. The Valeria and Uncle Doom relationship continues to be the most awesome idea anybody came up with in years.
When Doom is gone, Val reveals that she knows Verity is there, since she has an invisible mom and is used to that sort of thing. (She asks if Verity is "doing kissing" with Loki, which she considers to be involved in a statistically significant amount of bad decisions by adults: "Frankly, I don't approve.") Val tells Verity about future Loki destroying the world, and Verity's truth-detecting abilities tell her Val's not lying.
Meanwhile, Doom is alerted to the rioting going on in the Eastern Quarter. He gets angry with the Latverians when they defy him, and demands to know who's behind the rebellion. He jumps to blaming Richards and starts to stew on the F4's previous attacks on him, thinking that he can use Valeria for revenge before he snaps out of it and realises he's under telepathic attack and the hate doesn't originate with him. He manages to magically track it back to its source, the Red Skull, but his people are still under the influence.
Verity is able to detect the telepathic attack because she can sense lies ("someone's lying to me in my head...") Val also notices that she's much more angry with her dad than usual. Verity convinces Val to let Loki out: they need his weapon, Gram, the sword of truth, to break the influence. (Verity: "What makes hate easy?" Val: "Mommy and daddy." Loki: "Harsh! But yes.") Val sets up a device that Loki can stab with the sword, allowing everybody to feel its effects and be shown the truth. (Loki is tormented and sorry for his crimes; Doom refuses to acknowledge that whatever he's being shown about himself is true at all.)
The people of Latveria are freed, and Doom declares Verity a trusted ally of Doom. (Loki: "Wow. Have fun on all those terrorist watch lists.") Doom says his business with Loki is not done, but that's when Magneto shows up. He tells them they can either watch the Red Skull burn the world or fight him for it: it's time to go to war.
To be continued in Axis #3, or... somewhere. (Honestly I have no idea what's going on in this event or how many books, tie-ins, whatever there are, what's coming out when, or anything. Totally confused.)
But anyway, another great issue! Lots of fantastic touches, from little comedy details like what appears to be an "All You Need is Doom" variant of "All You Need is Love" playing in Doom's art room, to the characterisation note of Doom being able to throw off the Red Skull's mind control but also equally stubbornly throwing off the truth ray that's trying to confront him with the reality of his past sins. Plus almost every line of Valeria's dialogue is gold. I really want an Al Ewing-penned Doom and Valeria book now. And I kind of wish we'd had the chance to see more of Val interacting with Loki. Missed opportunity!
The art here seems maybe a little more sketchy than last issue in places, in terms of detail of facial expressions and the like, but it's still pretty nice, and there's some lovely atmospheric colouring in the scenes of Latveria at night.
All in all, great stuff - I just wish this Red Skull storyline wasn't part of an event that means hopping between different books and different writers to find out what happens next, because I'm really not sure to pick up or whether there'll be enough of a Doom appearance to bother. Events, bah.
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