The Best Laid Plans Of Daleks And Men…

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Gang aft agley. Or something. Look, I was going to do this whole review on a copy of Journey Into Mystery #626.1 I bought last week. I was going to delve into the psyche of a now adolescent Loki and discuss how great it was that a writer wanted to examine the often strained, acrimonious relationship between Loki and Thor from a fresh perspective. Would Loki still grow up to be a mistrusted and deadly God Of Lies And Mischief if he had the opportunity to do it all over again, growing up this time under the guidance of a much older brother whom he apparently worships? Or would the cards play out the same?

Who knows? I discovered that Journey Into Mystery #626.1 actually came out back in August and, furthermore, Matt Fraction killed off Thor in Fear Itself #7 this past week. So much for my well laid plan. Thanks, Fraction. Thanks, Time. Bastards.

In the meantime, The Mary Sue helpfully distracted me from my frustration with these cool “What if…?” Dalek illustrations by Kathleen Jennings who has started a project called The Dalek Game. The list of Daleks she has turned loose on classic and popular literature includes, among other many others:

• The Princess Daleks

• 101 Uses for a Dead Dalek

• Bridget Jones’s Dalek

• Little Dalek on the Prairie

• Dalek Shrugged

• The Little Dalek

• The Dalek in the Rye

• Wuthering Daleks

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dalek

Now, how do we get her to put a Dalek in Go The Fuck To Sleep?

Now, I’m off to the comic book store to add Journey Into Mystery officially to my pulls. I’m still curious how adolescent Loki is going to play out and I doubt it will include Daleks.