Baldur learns about the real world from his “Uncle Loki.” Yeah, it’s about time.
And on a completely unrelated note, happy birthday Abraham Lincoln.
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Not many people realize that most Christmas traditions were adopted from pagan society. During the Saturnalia, people roamed the streets drunk and naked, singing blessings to Saturn, the fertility god. Nowadays, Christmas carolers wear six layers of clothing and badger people on their doorsteps with songs about disgusting pudding concoctions and sleigh riding. Yeah, things have gone kind of downhill over the last 2000 years.
In the original draft of this cartoon, Loki suggested that Baldur become “God of Clogging”, and included the punchline, “the humans can sacrifice cattle to you at Riverdance,” but for some reason making the cartoon about schuhplatter seemed funnier in the end. I know next to nothing about this ridiculous form of dance, but I find it oddly fascinating to watch and I secretly long to do it professionally someday.
Even though schuplattler seems to require having both hands free for the various slaps, I thought it was important to have my platters waving cans of Old Skull beer in their hands.
Nothing is worse than a Halloween hangover. Not only does your head hurt, but your bed is covered in grease paint, your house is littered with costume accessories, and photos of you in your fursuit have suddenly appeared on the internet. Things in Asgard aren’t pretty on The Day After either. Thor is hung over from drinking too much, Loki is hung over from having sex with too many spooky chicks, and Baldur has troubles of his own…
Yes, those little orange dots in the fluorescent green vomit pool are supposed to be candy corns, that strange shaped, oddly colored, and frankly rather distasteful candy that we here in the U.S. find ourselves uncontrollably eating in October. I’m not sure how many candy corns a frost giant would need to eat to experience instant diabetes, but I’m sure it’s a lot.
Baldur and Loki are eager to attend the Halloween party on Midgard. But first Loki has some Halloween mischief to attend to. When you’re the world’s greatest prankster, Halloween is a work night.
After decorating Odin’s mead hall in fine style, the two adventurers make their way to earth to party with the pagans.
Happy Halloween!
Loki explains his outfit is part of the great Halloween festival on Midgard, but Odin does not understand: Halloween is not a Viking holiday; Walpurgis, the Viking holiday of darkness, is held in the spring. But Loki is not planning to actually celebrate Halloween. He’s attending the big festival for an entirely different reason…
Sexy witch chicks.
It seems like all the witches I bump into nowadays are looking pretty good. If you attend any Halloween parties this year, chances are the witches you encounter are going to be smoking hot, and I don’t mean because they’re on fire. And if you’ve ever had the fortune to meet a real witch — you know, like a practicing Wiccan or a member of some goddess cult — chances are she wasn’t unattractive either, and if she was, she hid her ugliness behind jangly earrings and trippy beads.
Now I don’t mean to suggest that there aren’t still some green hags collecting toe of frog and eye of newt in the darker regions of the forest. Someone has to keep it evil and make sure the young children stay in line and our literary and cinematic traditions remain properly anchored. But most witches today are not of the warty skin and flying monkey variety. They’re looking good on those brooms, and riding them with style.
Loki prepares his costume for Halloween. Options include Roman centurion, Zulu warrior, Apache brave, Spanish Conquistador. But Odin has a better suggestion…
Halloween countdown this week. This is cartoon one of three.
The Viking gods don’t just like treasure, they like valor.
Conquest, pillage, glory, trickery… along with great steaming piles of gore served up with swords on the battlefield.
Those of you interested in peace and love, this might not be the religion for you. Stick to your desert religions.
Desert religions? Peace and love? Wait a sec…
