convoluted for the sake of it?

(Actually the non-Kindle ebook edition, but I don't have the energy to add it so w/e)Just rereading Gillen's run of Young Avengers recently apparently wasn't enough to sate my need for more Loki content, so here we are on a JIM reread! It was a little disorienting to jump right into an event tie-in--maybe it would be less so if I'd been able to find a copy of the first volume outside of Amazon services and physical copies, who knows--but the poetic mysticism and promises of future espionage stil...

I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as volume 1. Perhaps if I’d read Fear Itself, but I really don’t want to. Anyway, I still love what Gillen is doing with Kid Loki. I just wish there had been more of that in this volume. This certainly wasn’t bad - nothing Gillen writes really is - and I liked the art. It just didn’t hold my attention the way I’d hoped.

5/5Honestly, I binge-read most of ‘Journey into Mystery’ and I can’t remember where one volume ends and the other begins. But nevertheless I absolutely loved all things kid Loki!! (Note to self: look at review for JiM Vol. 1 for more detailed thoughts on the series).

Should have been called "Journey Into Boredom: Bleh Itself Fallout"Heh heh, I made that up myself.In truth I really really wanted to like this. I read the first chapter of this and I thought "this is actually pretty good..." ~ the art was by P. Ferry, ... then I noticed that one was written by Rob Rodi, and once Gillen took over again I was like "ugghhhh! this sucks." :) It is just overly wordy and underly interesting, ... i.e. Boring.

It was a really good idea to wait for all the trades to come out before reading, because it's such a joy to read. Also uuugh kid!Loki noooo, I want to hug you.

This volume of Journey Into Mystery wraps up the Fear Itself plot in an astounding fashion and sets the pace for the rest of the series. Kieron Gillen manages to take the mess of Fear Itself and turn it into a heart-breaking fantasy epic all about the functions of mythology and the cruel prongs of fate. The first half of the volume is a bit slow, taking more time to establish exactly how the story happens and foreshadowing future plots, but as the volumes goes on it becomes a heart-breaking tale...

More of a collection of stories than really a volume as such, but makes for an enjoyable read. Kid!Loki is just such an amazing character, but I also like that this volume explores Volstagg, who has been one of the secret main protagonists of this whole arc. He's really grown on me, I'm quite surprised by this :') Sadly, the art and lettering continues to not be my kind of thing... except for these gorgeous Stephanie Hans covers! (Just let her do the whole book, Marvel!)

Very interesting take on Loki, and a series that takes its fantasy setting seriously. Note that this book is the second half of the story that began in the previous volume, and is in no way self-contained.

There was a lot of good stuff here -- almost too much. It felt like too much was packed in and not adequate explored. But that may be because I've got them out of order. Shit, who can keep the overwhelming deluge of overlapping, similarly-titled marvel lines straight? I can barely sort them out when I have the physical copies in front of me, much less trying to order them off the internet where half the time the entry information is incomplete or wrong. I'm pretty sure this isn't even the one I

A bit more disconnected than the previous volume, but still a good read. This one was more like a series of interconnected short stories built around the Fear Itself story. I like the Mephisto story (how often does he get to be the star instead of the antagonist) and the Volstagg story at the end was a good way to close out the Fear Itself storyline.

"Oh," I thought, when I was halfway through reading this one. "I'm sure enjoying this, but it's not, like, the most amazing thing I've ever read. I mean, it's not a Five-Stars Read like the last one was. How could it be? This is the epilogue of a tie-in book which had to dance around another writer's ideas. How much mileage could anybody, even Gillen, get out of that? And, I mean, it's okay. They can't all be five stars. It's still a good read. It's still fun. It'll be at least three stars, mayb...

Young Loki remains fantastic, but I think this volume, more than the first did, would benefit from the reader knowing more about what's going on in Marvel verse. I don't know what all this stuff with Mephisto is about and I'm not interested. Just gimme kid Loki!

Very much continuing to love Gillen's Loki storyline. This volume slows the plot down a bit to focus on a few one-off stories surrounding the events in the previous volume (and the Fear Itself event at large), but still goes to show that if a writer fully understands his characters, even "filler" can be highly entertaining. And I think Gillen may understand the Asgardians better than just about any other writer I've seen approach them.He's particularly coming into his own in regards to his writi...

Everyone needs a friend, even gods

The second installment in the teen-Loki-centric Journey into Mystery series.When we last left Loki, he was preparing to confront The Serpent, or at least, help Thor (who was taking on said beastie/Odin sibling in what was fated to be a fight to the death). Loki had spent Volume One scurrying about the realms, making friends in all the wrong places, or at least, forging dangerous alliances with demons and former enemies. That he is able to get help at all is because The Serpent, Lord of Fear and

My God, this series is fucking fantastic. Gillen deftly weaves the resolution of Fear Itself into his story by showing what Kid Loki was doing behind-the-scenes the whole time. It's goddamn brilliant the way he turns a massive crossover event with lots of punching and kicking into a redemption arc for a trickster god. His lyrical, witty narration ensures the reader is always aware of any important events in other books, but it's far more than just exposition: it sets the tone for the whole s...

Now that I've read this in the proper order (that is, after Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself, and yes, that's a mouthful of a title), I rather love this--Loki is such an irresistible protagonist: a bit too smart for his own good, impish, sly, and occasionally even a little uncertain. An excellent read if you like stories about stories; accessible even to those without an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel's various Asgard stories.

This volume starts off a little shaky with the .1 and Mephisto stories being the weakest in the lot. However, once we get back to Loki’s plot proper, things drop straight back into high gear. Even knowing the end of Fear Itself, I was excited to discover what *really* happened here. Changes in the status quo toward the end of the volume also suggest interesting plots going forward.

Wasn't as into this one and I mostly skipped the issues focusing on Mephisto and Volstag. I actually really wish Mephisto wasn't in it at all because all of his stuff just feels totally out of place to me and I would prefer to just focus on the Norse mythology stuff. It's still decent and there are some good moments but I definitely didn't like it as much as volume one.