Journey Into Mystery #645

[X]

Coming out October 24th.

[alien]

I'm sad... That moment with Thor Was precious..

Now I'm triyng to figure out that end.. So Old Evil loki has gone forever?
Or he really took over Good Kid Loki?

Man I cant wait until Young Avengers...

[jermox]

That is my first thought as well. Following it....following it....okay what happened?

I was under the impression that Kid Loki's personality had to disappear to make the crown disappear since it was made of his dreams. But then he bit into the crow seemingly destroying Evil Loki but what about the crown?

[X]

First things first, I'd give this comic a 7 1/2 or so out of 10. There, with my number obsession out of the way, I can move on. Agreed, Alien. Loved the scene with Thor. More than anything else, you can see that Thor was(and always had been) a caring older brother to Loki, so that scene between the two was nice.

As for the other question, what happened here, I kind of think Kid Loki killed older, evil Loki. I'd guess that means the crown is still around, especially since there's going to be that Hell Lord war storyline coming up(in Venom? I think?), I'd guess that Mephisto will feel that now is the time to make war on his fellow Hell Lords(since he has the added power of the crown and the Fear Lords), leading to that story.

Unless I'm completely wrong. Wouldn't be the first time! I actually like that Gillen left the ending kind of in doubt, that way we don't really know if that is Kid Loki, or Evil Loki. It's something he can play at for a while.

[alien]

Yeah the open ending wasn't a let down to my enjoyement of this comic, but now I cant wait until Young Avengers to come out,
maybe Mephisto pops over there?

[X]

I've always been a HUGE fan of Young Avengers. This only makes me want to get my hands on the comic EVEN MORE! And out of all the Marvel Now! books, YA was already the one I most wanted to read!

[Amirali]

Hey x-man. Sadly, Kieron Gillen has clarified in his tweets and wordpress blog that "evil Loki" won and overwrote Kid Loki.

There are still some more subtle Freudian questions open - such as whether this evil Loki was always part of Kid Loki's subconscious, rather than the ghost of the Old Loki, and whether there is anything left of the innocent kid version in the Loki we see now.

But yeah, the joyous innocent Loki we saw in the JIM run is to all intents and purposes gone.

[X]

Ugh, that's some lousy news, Amirali. I wish we would have gotten both Loki's to be honest. The Marvel U would have been big enough for the both of them. If this IS Evil Loki though, that makes Young Avengers all the more intriguing. Thanks for the news.

[jermox]

gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/4848/one-for-sorrow-why-did-kieron-do-it/

Kind of bummed to find this out but he may have some points. It is better if he pulled the trigger than let someone else do it.

[alien]

I thinks this is and interesting development since now Old Bad Loki will have to deal with the fact that at least one version of him could change and tried to do the best for all, maybe with some concequences but he changed and Kid Loki won in that aspect...
So I cant wait for young avengers now