Reddit Reddit reviews Journey into Mystery by Kieron Gillen: The Complete Collection Volume 1

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u/doesntgetthepicture · 10 pointsr/comicbooks

Atomic Robo. Best comic being published in modern times (hyperbole aside it's still really really good!). It is a series of mini-series, which means each collection stands on its own and you don't need to read any of the others, but reading them all makes it so much better.

It's the adventures of Atomic-Robo, a robot built by Nikola Tesla. It follows Robo through his life, either living with Tesla, or various points leading to the present as Robo leads Tesladyne, along with his action scientists, saves the world from Lovecraftian monsters, Nazi scientists, and the dreaded Dr. Dinosaur, among many others.

It's got great art and the stories are funny and engaging while still being touching with great characters. In fact you can read a bunch of their free comics on their website atomic-robo.com

Other titles of note that have yet to be mentioned:

  • Manhattan Projects, Jonathan Hickman writes an alternate history where The Atomic bomb is the least dangerous and crazy weapon America's brain trust built for and then after WW2.

  • Lucifer, it's by the same team that did Unwritten. A spinoff series from Sandman comics (though you needn't read Sandman to understand it at all), Lucifer has abdicated Hell and has created his own universe in a void beneath (next to?) our universe to prove he's better than his maker, and also opened up a nightclub in LA. It's amazing.

  • Kieron Gillen's run on working on Kid Loki. Starts with Journey Into mystery and ending in his run on Young Avengers (amazon links Journey into mystery vol 1, then Vol. 2 then finishes off in Young Avengers - I linked to the omnibus but I think It's also available in three smaller collections as well).

  • The Life After, it's currently ongoing (up to issue six right now) and I'm loving it. A young man lives his life in a stuper, in love with a woman he sees on the bus everyday as he goes to work. Until he reaches out to her and realizes nothing in his life is what it seems. Co-starring Ernest Hemingway, God, the Devil, and the bureaucrats who work in the afterlife, it's a really fun and engaging series.
u/kyrie-eleison · 9 pointsr/comicbooks

That was in Kieron Gillen's Loki run in Journey into Mystery: Volume One and Volume Two, which then continued into his Young Avengers run.

u/CorruptedEvil · 4 pointsr/comicbooksuggest

Journey into Mystery by Kieron Gillen (Gillen wrote stuff that she likes) or Grayson by Tim Seeley and Tom King (Already one of the best Nightwing series ever)

u/totallyarogue · 3 pointsr/Marvel

I'd start with Thor #617 because that's when Loki's "rebirth" as his current comics characterization really starts. All you need to know before this issue is that at the end of a big event (Siege), Loki, who'd been an evil mastermind behind a lot of Bad Stuff, changed his tune and sacrificed himself to save Asgard, which left Thor very sad and very confused. Also, Asgard crashed to Earth near Broxton, OK. That part is awesome.

After a few issues of Thor, you'll switch to Kieron Gillen's run on Journey Into Mystery, which is a modern day classic. You will love it. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will dance on your heart in iron spiked shoes.

After you've finished JiM and gathered the pieces of yourself back up, you'll head over to Gillen and his creative partner, Jamie McKelvie's [run on Young Avengers] (http://www.amazon.com/Young-Avengers-Vol-Kieron-Gillen/dp/0785167080). While I felt most everything I needed to know about the Young Avengers I could pick up by context, it might be helpful to do a quick wiki-dive on them just to catch up to speed. But this is also a fantastic run, I just wish it had gone for longer, Loki or no Loki.

After Young Avengers is when you'll want to read Al Ewing's Loki: Agent of Asgard. When you have a better handle of the character's history from the end of Siege to the end of Young Avengers, AoA will make much more sense (and also smack you right in the heart). Also, Ewing is a fantastic follow up to Gillen. I was very worried about this series at first but it ended up being one of my favorite books from the last few years.

Post Agent of Asgard, you could read the current Mighty Thor book by Jason Aaron. Loki remains in it but it doesn't feel the same, so far, and his facial hair is a travesty (this is just my opinion - I like a lot of other aspects of the book, just not Loki from what I've read thus far. Seriously though the "stubble" he has going on is a crime).

That being said, Vote Loki is coming out soon and he looks clean shaven, so that might be interesting. And Angela looks to be in it - if you like MCU Loki, you may also want to check out [Angela, Asgard's Assassin] (http://marvel.com/comics/issue/51352/angela_asgards_assassin_2014_1) - you'll meet Angela through Loki: Agent of Asgard (there's a cross over where he and Odinson meet her). Her book is really great and very similar to a lot of modern Loki stuff - in fact, Gillen wrote her book for awhile.

TLDR: The big Loki story you're looking for starts in Thor #617 and ends in Loki: Agent of Asgard #17.