Previously… After crawling up out of the Well of Wisdom seeking revenge on Odin, the disembodied eye known as Odineye (yes, he has a James Bond villain name) has successfully failed at every attempt to quench his thirst for vengeance. It’s not so much his failure as it is the triumphs of Thor, Hod, and Loki.
Currently… While Odin is out playing the road warrior dad, the villainous Odineye has infiltrated his hall under the guise of a professional "backup dad". Though the kids and even Frigg have grown fond of him during all the quality time together, the sinister eyeball still plans on being the architect of their destruction (but he’d settle for corrupting the kids a bit). But will he lose his cool backup dad status now that he’s killed the babysitter?
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*shivers* He’s scary…. I like!
Revenge is a dish best served cold…and by who better than Hod.
Bring it, Hod! Bring it! Odineye is going down!
I want to see Odineye get his and get his good. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but he bugs the crap out of me! (In a good way, I’ve been enjoying his attempts at getting to Odin and the kids, but I think it’s time he got a good hard (and cold) lesson in pain.)
Oh Man, Odineeye doesn’t stand a chance. Go Hod!
Am I the only one pulling for Odineye in all of this?
Well, every action there is an opposite and equal reaction… and this is one Hel of a reaction.
(couldn’t help but go for the pun)
YESSS!!! Go Hod! Get the sucker! I knew there would be Hel to pay *heh* if anything happened to her with him around! YAY!!! *waves Hod Flag*
Geez, Eyeball, get a clue… that’s ICE on the floor of your cool hut… *wry grin* Forgot the stage fright in the poetry contest, did we, boyo?
EXCELLENT last panel. OMG SO excellent!!!
Jasta,
Dancin’ in her office…
go Hod! kill your evil backup dad and avenge your love!
btw, the eyeball doesn’t feel that its getting just a LITTLE cold?
Ha Ha! Don’t mess with Hel when Hod’s around! *snicker*
O E might not notice the cold as much as someone who has a BODY!
Once again, Odineye proves to be unobservant and fails to notice the fire that was burning brightly has just been snuffed out, and the ice formations jutting up out of the ground near him.
Though I bet Hel is going to get back up. At that point Hod is going to uhh… warm up and leave the ice cold rage for later.
You missed one nice touch. You can see Fred’s breath, indicating it just turned quite cold. And since they are supposed to be NORSE deities, they would recognize what that means. (As opposed to most of the African deities who never see snow in their domains.)
Someone’s going to be put on ice. Hmm. An odineyecicle.
Dang, Hod looks badass. I want this for my computer wallpaper. And the little breath of steam coming from Phil’s mouth is so win.
And who’s that in the background? For some reason, I wanna say it’s Thor’s goats, but that makes no sense. Anyone else know who Hod’s backup squad is?
Ooh, angry Hod is angry! Odineye’s SO going to get…a poem dedicated to his jerkiness for this!
You are right, that would make great wallpaper.
Sobolan, my money is on the backup squad being Odins wolves, Freki and Geri (My unreliable memory seems to recall they are also known as the wolves of winter). Mind you they could also be Fenrir and Loki. (After all Odin eye did just “kill” Loki’s daughter,and Fenrir’s stepsister) Either way team Odineye is going down!
Actually, Hel is Fenrir’s full sister, not stepsister, as they share the same mother, the giantess Angrboda. Jormangandr, the Midgard Serpent, also shares their parentage.
Hello… my name is Hod… you killed my love…. prepare to die!!!
Sorry… it had to be said
GO HOD!!!!
I’m pretty sure the shadow on the right is Fenrir…no idea who the one on the left is. But I’m lookin’ forward to the icy showdown.
Hod vs. Odineye……Ready…..FIGHT!
I finally caught up! Ive always been a mythology geek and its nice to see the most awesome of pantheons getting just treatment.
…I wonder who gonna win?
Bets anyone?
I got the odds as
Hod- 50
Odineye- 1/2
Someone else (for some random reason)- 10
My guess is that the wolves are Garmr (sometimes thought to be the guardian of Hel’s realm, much as Cerberus was guardian of Hades’) and Fenrir. (The two are often considered the same beast, though.)
If Garm is another name for Fenrir in Brat-Halla, the wolves could be Hati Hrodvitnisson and Skoll, the ones that chase Sol (the sun) and Mani (the moon), causing eclipses every so often. (Sources seem to conflict over which wolf chases which celestial body.)
One of them *could* also be Loki’s son (by his third wife Sigyn) Vali, who was turned into a slavering wolf, but that birth is probably many years down the road, as the whole purpose of turning Vali into a wolf was so that he could kill his brother Narfi, whose entrails were used to bind Loki to a dragon that bled acid. (Yes, Loki had more offspring than just Hel, Jormungandr, Fenrir, and Slepnir.)
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