#Disney TVA Art Books

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Disney Publishing Worldwide, Disney Press & Disney Hyperion Sets Amphibia Art-Book

An Art of Amphibia Book is on development at Disney Publishing Worldwide, Disney Press, Disney Hyperion and a TBA publisher likely Dark Horse Comics.

This was recently revealed at Matt Braly's Livestream at Streamly, "The Art Of Amphibia" book becomes the third Disney Television Animation art-book on history after "The Art of DuckTales" (2022) and "The Disney Afternoon: The Making Of A Television Renaissance" (2024).

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ART OF AMPHIBIA BOOK IS COMING OUT WE FUCKIGN WONNNNNN!!1!1!11!!11!!!!

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Are you an Owl House Fan?

Do you want more official content?

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Us staff came up with a plan to show demand for an Owl House Art Book!! Just go to Twitter and follow the steps outlined in my and Sam Kestins tweets to let the studio know that you want more Owl House! ♡

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Disney+ Series ‘The Mandalorian,’ ‘WandaVision’ and ‘Loki’ Coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD Later This Year

The formerly streaming-only titles are now physical

Some of your favorite Disney+ streaming series from Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios are getting the physical media treatment later this year with new Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases of the first two seasons of Lucasfilm’s live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” as well as Marvel Studios’ “WandaVision” and the first season of “Loki.”

“Loki” will be available on Sept. 26, “WandaVision” will be available on Nov. 28, and the first two seasons of “The Mandalorian” will be available on Dec. 12. The titles will be available on Collector’s Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray, “featuring Steelbook packaging, concept art cards and some never-before-seen bonus features.” The Steelbook edition will feature brand-new box art designed by artist Attila Szarka and collectible concept art cards. (People love their Steelbooks!)

The special features for the “Loki” release include “Designing the TVA” which features production designer Kasra Farahani and Tom Hiddleston (and contains a look at the upcoming season 2); the Miss Minutes TVA orientation video; deleted scenes (including a moment that introduces Frog Thor); a gag reel; and the “Assembled” documentary (another former Disney+ exclusive). Special features for the other releases will be shared at a later date.

“The Mandalorian” debuted with the rest of Disney+ on November 12, 2019. It quickly became the flagship series for the company’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform and inspired a whole host of spin-offs, including “The Book of Boba Fett” and “Ahsoka” (premiering this Tuesday on Disney+).

“WandaVision” was the first Marvel Studios Disney+ series, which debuted on the platform on January 15, 2021. “Loki” debuted several months later on June 9, 2021, resurrecting the Tom Hiddelston character that died at the beginning of “Avengers: Infinity War” and introducing the idea of the Multiverse. It is also the first Marvel Studios Disney+ to warrant a second season, which will start streaming in October.

Other Marvel Studios Disney+ series that followed “WandaVision” include “Moon Knight,” “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” and “Secret Invasion,” which recently wrapped.

All four of these Disney+ titles will be available to pre-order beginning on August 28.

[popculturebuffet]

Well, now Chapek's officially out of Disney and Iger has returned. Thoughts given Chapek's actions?

I'm glad you asked about that thing.. mostly because I intended to talk about it anyway and this just makes it easy. So yeah i'd forgotten Iger's tenure or what he actually did.. and when told it included the marvel purchase, the star wars purchase and he was around to likely greenlight a good chunk of the disney tva slate we've all enjoyed, i'd say we're in good hands. I also really just had kinda.. resigned myself to Disney not chaning CEOs. Hopefully Iger takes a better stance to tv and streaming animatoin as disney BADLY needs both shored up. Film is still doing okay but the warning signs were there such as moving the pixar films to disney+.

Now HOW he got outsted.. i have no idea. Bringing back a previous CEO as a stopgap is a VERY deseprate move, meaning either Chapek was let go and given the options...

He didn't choose the ned flanders specail> he MIGHT of gotten another corporate job, maybe at the burning wreckage that was once HBO Max. He seems like their kind of people. Perhaps a bit too tame for them we'll see. But either way the circumstances are very curious to me. That said I can see WHY Disney would break Bob iger out of his in case of emergency casing, as while things aren't a tirefire, things aren't great: Star Wars seems aimless, Phase 4 of the MCU, while not without i'ts bright spots, was aimless and a tad bloated, and we've seen the animatoin side slowly decline, with this CEO switch being the emergency break before it headed off a cliff. I'm hoping Iger can fix Disney's mistakes. I do hope some things done before he left arne't scrapped entirley: The move to Dynamite for the comics seems to be a good one thus far, and hopefully he can open up more art of books for TVA shows besides Ducktales. I think he can hack it, but fingers cross he at LEAST dosen't do as bad as CHapek was. Chapek if I can sum up his tenure was a slow death: he wasn't actively destroying the company and raping the land so he can ate (That would be what the textbooks will refer to as "Pulling a Zaslav"... as soon as I can find a company to make my unpublished textbooks), but he certainly wasn't helping it grow, angering pixar, stifling tv animation and queer content and in general being a bit of a butt who wasn't fully utializing his giant toolbox (as seen by the blue sky closure). He wasn't the worst CEO i've seen, but he wasn't good and I think we all can sing this catchy song now he's gone.

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Convincing a Disney TVA fan to watch RvB

Spent an embarrassing amount of time writing what turned into an essay to hepl convince an “Owl House” fan to watch RvB. Putting it here instead, so that time isn’t wasted.

STYLE: If just the style is what's keeping them from watching it, that really can't be helped. Make a note that the animation may be rough, but ultimately the style isn't purely animated - It's machinima, and you're not gonna get totally gorgeous or even consistent quality. Art direction isn't the same as in other shows, but NOTE BENE: This does not mean that care isn't put into the setting. You can go through and watch DVD behind the scenes stuff or go on the wiki or read the companion book, and you can tell your friend that for machinima directors, they show love for their craft by transforming existing locations into something within their universe. My favorite example is turning the Forerunner cathedral that is "Epitaph" into the haunting Freelancer facility that unlocks the Alpha, but a fan favorite (and obviously don't spoil this for them) would probably be seeing how Sidewinder was turned from a boot camp into ground zero for a weather machine/"""Time bomb""" into the third(?) last stand of the Reds and Blues and then in S10, finally realizing why Wash called it "The only place that's left" in S8. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: If they watch "The Owl House" for the same reasons I do (re: story and character development), just tell 'em to pay attention to Blue Team. The story revolves around them to start. Caboose carries a surprising amount of the emotional weight of the story because of his sincerity, Church is a ghost who becomes more important as the story goes on, Tucker is literally the imprint of the writer for the Chorus trilogy's idea of the journey of accepting responsibility, Wash is a badass with a villain arc, and of course, Agent Texas is a badass with a capital-T Tragic backstory. The Blood Gulch crew is pretty one-note, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's Scott McCloud's understanding comics: In the case of the BGC, being faceless archetypes makes it easier for us jump in and immediately understand what their deal is. That said, if they want angst and suffering out of their characters, Blue Team and the Freelancers, and that Venn Diagram has Agent Washington squarely in the middle, so maybe start them off with Recovery One into Reconstruction trailer into Reconstruction. Music: Owl House has a great score. RvB has some bangers, too. Trocadero and Jeff Williams take turns bringing a musical identity to the show. Everyone knows "(When) Your Middle Name is Danger" and "Big Prize" for Meta and Wash, respectively. Then Jeff Williams brings rock and rap to the mix for the action movie-esque Freelancer saga, then it's Trocadero again with "Contact" and "Soul Clef XI"... And then if you make it to Season 15, Grif gets a theme, too.

There was gonna be more, but holy gosh, then I realized what I was going, so I just submitted this instead.

Spent the last hour writing a fucking essay, but I'll condense it: I'm a fan of Owl House and RvB, and you all might want different things out of the shows you watch, which would be the biggest, most insurmountable barrier. Start with S5 or Recovery One, then go into Reconstruction. RvB asks a lot up front: ~9-10 hours of watch time before the dramatic story starts. Don't skip the Recollections Trilogy trailers. Make sure they watch the S2 opening or any of the videos featuring "Blood Gulch Blues", so that S10 "True Colors" hits as hard as it should. If they're a Disney TVA fan, the words "True Colors" should make them go into a trance, but once the snap out of it, if they're in it for character development, it's all about Blue Team. If they've enjoyed Luz Noceda for her wide-eyed whimsy in the first half of most Season one episodes, Caboose and maybe Donut. If they've enjoyed watching Luz get broken down by the world around her and being used, manipulated, and lied to, they'll love Wash. Old and witty like Eda, maybe Sarge, unless they're an Eda stan for different reasons. Hooty? Caboose. King?... Also Caboose because he fills that roll of "the cute one" and "the chaotic one". If they're an S1 Amity fan, South Dakota. I have an analogue for S2 Amity, too, but you know. Spoilers, just in case you decide to watch it.

[angelbunny-arts]

Welcome!

This is my general art blog! If you’re looking for the general xelqua AU I post everything related to that over on @the-high-watcher

First and foremost, I’m setting a few ground rules to protect my followers

I will not tolerate any racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or misogyny on my blog against anyone. Fictional or not.

I also will not tolerate proshippers, pro-lifers, sexualization of any of my characters, and pedophillia or similar (including the use of the word "loli” or “shota” when referring to young kids or zoophilia)

Now that I believe I have covered all my bases and the gross people are gone, let's continue.

I'm bunny, an artist! I mainly do digital art however I do sometimes post watercolour and other physical stuff sometimes too.

My pronoun preference is they/them and it/it's however I do not care what you refer to me as, he/him, xe/xem, heck, refrigerator/refrigeratorself is fine in my book. I'm also biromantic and acepec, and currently trying to figure out gender.

My current interests are hermitcraft, the traffic life series, the watchers, TBHK and Disney TVA like the owl house or tangled the series

I also do doodle requests! Any canon character, from any fandom, as long as the request is sfw.

I will not be doing requests of your OC's as that feels a bit too much like free commissions.

Other Information:

Do you do commissions?

Not at the moment, and that’s for two reasons. mainly because I don’t have a form of payment, but also because I get burnt out very quickly when I open commissions/art trades. Perhaps in the future though

Do you sell prints of your art?

Not yet, I do plan on selling non-mcyt prints on my Etsy (more info- @angelbunny-shop ) however I have no plans to sell anything mcyt related out of respect for the ccs

Can I do __ with your art?

You can do whatever you want with my art as long as it’s not massively altered, used for profit, or used as AI training. This includes personal use like pfps, backgrounds, and making your own mcyt prints, as long as you give credit!

How often do you art?

My upload schedule is Wednesdays and Fridays but tbh things may be posted a day before or after schedule

sometimes I’ll post bonus doodles sprinkled between If I think I have a rather fun idea or get a request.

As of Jan 2024- due to school stress and working on the comic the schedule is a bit wonky as you may have noticed, once I get out of mega stress we will be back to our regularly scheduled program!

What are your other blogs?

The important ones are:

@angelbunny-stuff ; my reblog and ramble blog

@the-high-watcher ; a sideblog made to keep all GXAU stuff in one place

@angelbunny-shop ; for information/marketing about my Etsy shop

@angelbunny-daily rarely daily, but sometimes I’ll post a doodle about my day

that is all! also feel free to ask non-personal questions via my inbox (stuff about my oc's, hobbies etc)

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always.

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🌟I'm incredibly proud to announce that the Art of Amphibia will be available for purchase on November 17th this year, wherever books are sold🌟

This beautiful hardbound book will contain 224 pages full of carefully curated artwork from all three seasons. We're talking never before seen conceptual sketches, storyboards, paintings, written testimonials from the crew and much, much more. I'm so grateful to TOKYO POP for continuing to partner with us to get these Amphibia books made. This one in particular is a dream come true - artwork for animated TV shows like ours is too often left forever archived, never to be enjoyed or treasured.

Please look forward to the book. The team working on it is the same as Marcy's Journal so you KNOW it's gonna be good. --- Matt Braly

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~God of Mischief

This is a slightly reworked painting I did a few years back. Bringing it back in honor of the new LOKI series.

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Show Creator of Amphibia secures its Publishing Rights to Tokyo Pop with her own Journal

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- The Disney Manga, Disney Publishing Worldwide and Tokyo Pop have been teamed up for the upcoming journal book of Marcy Wu, which was recently announced Friday afternoon (March 18, 2022 - Pacific local time).

Saint James Middle School (SJMS) student in Los Angeles City (which is formally migrated from Taiwan) named Marcy Wu obtained its publishing rights through Tokyo Pop, the only American manga distributor which is based on this said city.

Pages of arts will be provided by Disney Manga, the entire crew of Amphibia and Tokyo Pop. This is mostly known for its manga publishing with the titles of your favorite Disney shows.

We reached out to Matt Braly, show creator of Amphibia to OneNETnews for what is behind the scenes of an SJMS student with her personal life before death at the 2nd Season finale from a murder incident of Newtopian captain (Andrias Leviathan) via our tweeted post on Twitter but... he doesn't have a comment at all to our news team.

Marcy Wu acknowledges to Braly, shortly after the actual announcement was recently made and final -- the past weekend on Saturday late afternoon, which is currently endorsed from the American manga publisher to Tokyo Pop.

The official journal of Wu will be released soon, but probably will come out next year in 2023, and more information will be unveiled at D23 Expo 2022 from September 9-11, 2022 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Tokyo Pop is working closely to Disney Manga, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Disney Channel and a show creator himself (Matt Braly of Amphibia) commenced it's entire publication and production of her journal of Wu to be implemented by Monday morning onwards (March 21st, 2022 - Pacific local time).

Braly will reveal all the hidden stories and messages, missing adventures, character insights, games, puzzles, and more of the physical lore. You can pre-order her journal of Wu when it's later released to the public and to be purchased physically or online at the Tokyo Pop website. International shipping to everyone else, including here in Negros Oriental (for example) will charge you more on its shipping and handling, depending where you live for a country's currency.

SOURCE: *https://disneytvanimation.com/post/679100484091559936/disney-publishing-worldwide-disney-manga-tokyo [Referenced News Article from the Disney TVA News] *https://twitter.com/TOKYOPOP/status/1504895568996605952 *https://twitter.com/Radrappy/status/1504898124845772803 *https://twitter.com/Radrappy/status/1504898125864988675 and *https://twitter.com/Radrappy/status/1504994916698447872

-- OneNETnews Team

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SPOILER WARNING: Do not read if you haven’t seen all of Season 1 of “Loki,” currently streaming on Disney Plus.

Ever since “Loki” first premiered in June, Kate Herron, who directed all six episodes of the Marvel Studios series, has had to pretend like she knew far less than she really does. For one, she couldn’t acknowledge that the homages to sci-fi classics like “Blade Runner” and “Brazil” that she’d baked into the elaborate sets for the Time Variance Authority — the cosmic bureaucracy tasked with maintaining the sacred timeline — were “meant to be sinister” rather than just “playful and quirky.”

For another, Herron was delighted to see fans theorizing after the very first episode that Kang the Conqueror — a character already set to appear in the Marvel Studios feature “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” as played by Jonathan Majors — was really pulling the strings of the TVA. But until the finale streamed last Wednesday, she couldn’t even hint that those fans were only half right: Majors does play the mastermind of the TVA, but he’s a variant of Kang referred to as He Who Remains. It’s only after He Who Remains encounters Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his female variant counterpart Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), and Sylvie plunges a blade into his heart, that the multiverse is reborn, creating the possibility for Kang the Conqueror to emerge.

Again, though: Herron couldn’t acknowledge any of that, even to those closest to her.

“Nothing has prepared me better for working with Marvel than playing tabletop games with my friends,” she says with a laugh. “It definitely taught me how to have a good poker face. You have to hide your hand — and sometimes lie.”

Now, thankfully, all of that is behind her — as is “Loki” itself. Despite receiving widespread acclaim for her assured, ambitious, and visually sumptuous work directing the show, Herron says she has decided not to return for Season 2 of the series.

“I gave it everything — in my soul, in my heart, everything,” she says. “I feel so proud of the work we’ve done. And yeah, I’ll be enjoying Season 2 as a fan.”

She’s quick to sing the praises of everyone she worked with at Marvel, and she says she’s “sure” she’ll work again with the studio. For now, however, she’s ready to take a holiday, and then turn to a project she’s writing herself “that’s really close to my heart that I really want to make.”

“It’s my own decision, but I just feel like my part with ‘Loki’ is finished now and I’m just excited to see where his story goes,” she says.

Before she parts ways for good, however, Herron spoke with Variety about bringing Jonathan Majors into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what she thought of the shocking revelation about infinity stones and what she would like to see happen in Season 2.

She always knew “Loki” would introduce Kang and the Multiverse…

From the very start, Herron says, she and head writer Michael Waldron knew that their six-episode run of “Loki” would always end with Loki and Sylvie meeting He Who Remains at his citadel, the result of which would cause the creation of the multiverse.

As Episode 6 makes clear, both of these events were massive turning points for the future of the MCU — and Herron still can’t quite believe she got to be the one to make them a reality.

“We were just, like, waiting to be told, ‘Actually, guys, we’ve had a change [of heart],'” Herron says. Instead, Herron says she and “Quantumania” director Peyton Reed participated in casting Majors in the role.

“I was just like, pinch me,” she says. “I can’t believe I was at the table for that, because I know it was such a big decision for them all.”

Herron also decided to have Majors provide the voices for all three “Timekeepers” who are supposedly at the head of the TVA, but are revealed by Sylvie to be nothing more than “mindless androids.”

“We didn’t have someone cast for those voices,” she says. “I remember thinking, well, ‘Wizard of Oz’ is clearly a reference for us. We should have the wizard. It’d be great if it’s Jonathan. So we sent him all the art of the timekeepers. And he just kind of came up with these incredible voices for each of them.”

…but not with a cliffhanger.

The most significant decision of the season, though, may be that it ends with a giant cliffhanger, when Loki discovers he’s in a brand new reality for the TVA in which Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) don’t even recognize him. But while Herron knew how this season of “Loki” would end, at first, she did not know that there would be any more seasons after it.

“When I started, there wasn’t a discussion of Season 2, exactly,” she says. “It was just that season of ‘Loki.’ As we got deeper into production, everyone was very happy, and obviously there’s so much to explore with Loki. It felt like we should continue the story. So I think the cliffhanger ending came in later in the process.”

Herron says she sprinkled in some hints to viewers that Loki is in a new timeline, like redressing sets to look slightly off, and recasting Eugene Cordero’s TVA receptionist Casey as a hunter headed to the armory in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment. But her favorite bit is that the final line — said by Mobius to Loki — is the same as the first line spoken in the show, by a woman in the Gobi desert, also to Loki: “Who are you?”

“That was kind of the question of the whole first season,” Herron says.

She was just as shocked about the Infinity Stones as everyone else.

In the first episode, Loki discovers to his horror that not only does his magic not work inside the TVA, but Infinity Stones — heretofore believed to be the most powerful objects in the known universe — are just inert rocks there. The revelation sent shockwaves across the Marvel fandom; Herron was right there with them.

“That was in Michael’s script when I first got it to pitch [for the directing job],” she says. “I remember being like, ‘WHAT?! You put me through so much!’ But then I thought, ‘Oh, it’s kind of genius, because it shows how powerful the TVA are. Who are these people? What is this place?'”

Herron especially appreciated how her shock — and the audience’s — mirrored Loki’s own as the rug gets pulled out from under him. “I was quite excited by it,” she says. “It really shows you that there’s a new power in the MCU — and it’s not what we we spent the last decade dedicating our lives to.”

She told Kevin Feige she wanted gender parity among her crew.

Prior to “Loki,” Herron’s most high profile job was directing the second half of the first season of the Netflix dramedy “Sex Education.” She got the “Loki” job thanks to a 60-page pitch memo that filled out just about every detail of the world of the show. After hiring her, she says Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige asked her, “What are your terms?”

“This was the first time I was gonna get to hire my heads of department on a television show I worked on,” she says. “I was like, I’d really love [the crew] to be 50/50 across gender.”

Herron says she wasn’t out to fill any jobs on the film with a specific gender. But, she says, “There aren’t enough women in these roles. They’re out there. It’s a lack of opportunity. It’s not a lack of interest.”

She did end up hiring two women for critical roles that are still rarely occupied by women: cinematographer Autumn Durald (“The Sun Is Also a Star”) and composer Natalie Holt (History’s “Knightfall”).

“I felt like she was inside my mind,” Herron says of Durald. “We have the same taste. And I love the way that she talks about light as a character.”

Herron hired Holt unusually early for a composer, after she’d completed editing the first episode during the pandemic shutdown. She knew that the particular sci-fi film noir look of the show that she was developing with Durald needed similarly unique music, and she liked that part of Holt’s pitch was focusing on Loki’s identity as a character.

“Her music then started to inspire how I wanted to shoot other scenes,” Herron says. She’s especially enamored of Holt’s vision for her dynamic and foreboding theme for the TVA.

“She was like, ‘Oh, let’s have that theme be Kang’s’ — well, He Who Remains, I guess, in our show. But I hope that will go on to be Kang’s theme. That was the real fun of it is that you feel like he’s really played a hand now across the whole show, because you realize that music is his music.”

Herron, Durald, and Holt all deliver distinctive and superlative work that’s nothing like the MCU has quite seen before — and nothing quite like anything previously in their careers, either. And that’s entirely the point.

“I think for us, it was about just showing people what we could do and that we could do it at this level,” Herron says.

The episode in which Loki comes out as bisexual was inspired by Alfonso Cuarón and Richard Linklater.

Every episode of “Loki” features multiple extended scenes of two characters just talking to one another, a rarity in a comic book production. Herron says that cutting Episode 1 together during the pandemic lockdown and seeing the scenes between Loki and Mobius (Owen Wilson) play out so well “definitely gave us confidence” to continue that rhythm for the rest of the show.

That was especially true for Episode 3. Written by Bisha K. Ali (who went on to create the upcoming Marvel Studios series “Ms. Marvel”), the episode is essentially an extended meet-cute between Loki and Sylvie as they get to know each other on a planet doomed for total annihilation.

“Bisha’s reference was ‘Before Sunrise’ and ‘Children of Men,'” says Herron. “And it lit my brain on fire. It was kind of weird. It was almost like a bottle episode in the sense that we’re just with the two characters, but obviously, it’s Marvel, right? So they’re bonding in this Apocalypse, which also feels very Loki at the same time.”

That episode is best known for making Marvel Studios history, when Loki casually mentions that he’s had dalliances with both men and women. Herron says that when she first interviewed for the job, she asked if the show was going to acknowledge Loki’s sexuality, which had long been established in the comics as bisexual or pansexual.

“I think everyone wanted to acknowledge it,” she says. “It was just really about giving a care and consideration and doing it in the right way. I think everyone knew it was gonna be quite a big moment. So it was just really about doing it in a way that felt respectful. And honoring it.”

Herron also confirms what many fans had suspected, that she deliberately made the lighting scheme for the scene evoke the blue, purple and red of the bisexual flag. “We knew what we were doing with that scene,” she says with a smile.

She has a lot of ideas for what she’d like to see in Season 2.

Since Herron will be watching Season 2 of “Loki” only “as a fan,” she is also free to wildly speculate as to what she’d most like to see happen — like how, wherever Loki story leads, “we’ve opened the door” for the character to explore his sexuality with men as well as women.

Otherwise? She says she wants to know where Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) goes to when she leaves the TVA in search, she tells Mobius, of “free will.”

“I love her,” Herron says. “Gugu used to always call her an indoor girl, which made me laugh, but she is. She’s in the office, but she used to be this kick-ass Hunter. So I’m like, Okay, well, where’s her path going?”

Herron is also keen to learn more about Hunter B-15’s backstory — since she deliberately decided to hide it in the scene in Episode 4 when Sylvie shows B-15 her repressed memories as a variant.

“I was like, we shouldn’t see her memories,” Herron says. “It’s a character that thought they had power and realizes they have no power. It felt really powerful to at least give her some power in that scenario. The memories are private. They’re hers.” She pauses. “Also as a fan, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, who is she?!'”

“And obviously, you know, Loki and Sylvie?” Herron continues, on a roll. “He’s in a completely different reality. What’s going to happen to him? How will he get back? Or will he get back? And where’s Sylvie? She’s still in the Citadel? And the multiverse of it all. What the hell is going to happen?!”

Herron chuckles at her own excitement. “So I think there’s so many questions to be answered, and so much more road to travel with all our characters,” she says. “You know, I’m really proud that I got to set up Loki’s story here. But there’s so many different aspects of his identity and personality that’s yet to be explored. I’m excited to see where it goes.”

[lokiondisneyplus]

LOKI 4 PRESIDENT! For a narcissist trickster sorcerer with the personality of a praying mantis, there are few occupations in the world that would suit Loki better than president of the United States. A few years ago, in the summer of 2016, comic book writer Christopher Hastings imagined just that in a satirical limited series for Marvel titled Vote Loki.

Five years later, Vote Loki has found its way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the fifth episode of the Disney+ series, “Journey Into Mystery,” a variant Loki (still played by Tom Hiddleston) appears in the desolate “Void” surrounded by a Mad Max-esque posse. On Loki’s tattered blazer is a red, white, and blue “Loki” button, indicating this Loki was, uh, elected to lead. Turn on the subtitles on Disney+ and you’ll find this Loki is credited as “President Loki.”

In an email to Inverse, Christopher Hastings says he had no idea this was going to happen.

“I found out [they were doing Vote Loki] when a trailer for the show featured the campaign outfit from Vote Loki,” Hastings tells Inverse.

When Inverse exchanged emails with Hastings, it was prior to the episode’s premiere, to which Hastings said he was “very curious to see exactly what from the comic gets into the show.”

“I love time travel and multiverse material,” the writer says in praise of Loki. “I am a big fan of the TVA as a setting. I'm eager to see how it goes, and what it might mean for the next phase of MCU movies, especially since multiverse wackiness seems to be a major part of those upcoming movies.”

In 2004, while a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Hastings wrote and illustrated The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, a serial webcomic about a doctor who is also a ninja. The series was a cult hit, at one point attracting 110,000 unique visitors a day. By 2011, Hastings was doing work for Marvel, writing single issues of A+X and Howard the Duck. With Chris Bachalo, he co-created Gwenpool — a bizarre blend of Spider-Man ex-girlfriend Gwen Stacy and Deadpool — and penned the 2016-2018 solo series The Unbelievable Gwenpool, teaming up with Japanese studio Gurihiru to create the character’s deeply unique comedic tone.

But during Gwenpool, Hastings spent the summer of 2016 playing with a different Marvel trickster: Loki. In the four-issue miniseries Vote Loki, Hastings spoofed the chaos that was the 2016 race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In Vote Loki, an ambitious Loki seeks the seat of the president with a very unique campaign strategy: being honest about lying.

With “President Loki” having a minor cameo in the MCU, Inverse caught up with Hastings to look back on his explicitly political riff that took place inside the Marvel Universe.

This interview has been edited for clarity.

Take me back to the origins of Vote Loki. When did the seed for the story plant in your mind? What was going on in the world of culture/politics at that time?

Gosh, it's tough to come up with one thing specifically, because we were making the comic by the seat of our pants, and so many things got scrapped and rewritten along the way, often at the last second. But one of the core topics I wanted to cover had to do with narratives versus reality. It's kind of a given that in the world of politics, truth is this malleable thing, and now more than ever all you have to do to make people believe a lie is to repeat it enough times.

I liked the idea of Loki playing with narrative in a way that wasn't necessarily outright lying, more bending. (Except the bit about being born in Maryland. One outright lie there.) The other driving point I wanted to explore was how Americans can have a tendency to incorporate their national-level politics into part of their identity, and what that does to a person, particularly when a character like Loki is the one on the ticket.

What sort of conversations did you have with Marvel about a political satire starring Loki? What was the elevator pitch that got approval?

Like I said, things changed so many times, I'm not even entirely sure how many versions were kind of approved and then scrapped on the way to get to what was actually published. I think it was more that I assured editor Wil Moss that I could jump on the book (which Marvel was determined to make; they just hadn't decided who was writing it when I was pitching) after talking about the stuff about narrative and identity, and the basic idea that the viewpoint character shouldn't actually be Loki but a journalist covering Loki's campaign.

Vote Loki introduced the character of Nisa Contreras. What was the primary inspiration for her?

That would be my real-life friend, Nisa Contreras. She's not a journalist, but she’s someone I'm sure could take down Loki if he were a) real and b) got on her bad side. I wanted the story to be more about witnessing the tension and the comedy of Loki running for president, about not knowing what was up his sleeve. And so I came up with [a] journalist.

Vote Loki was published over the summer of 2016 when the election was ramping up in awkward ways. (“Pokémon Go to the polls!”) Did the real election influence the comic in any way, including any specific moments?

The comic was a direct response to things that were happening during the 2016 campaign, specifically that a “joke” candidate that was obviously terrible could get pretty far with enough media oxygen and a comfortable political system that ignored the disgust a lot of people had with it.

Vote Loki ran for four issues. Was there ever a possibility for more?

If it was a smash hit, I believe there would have been a President Loki to directly follow Vote Loki.

What do you think of Vote Loki's inclusion in the TV series?

Top five surreal moments of my life.

Do you think Vote Loki could be the focus of its own adapted series/movie?

Oh for sure. You wouldn't even have to take the material from our comic; there's so much more brand-new political madness that a new Vote Loki series or movie could tap into.

A lot has happened in the five years since Vote Loki was published. What are your feelings looking back now in 2021? Did your opinions on the book ever change?

There was a lot happening in American politics in 2016 I missed and wish I had been able to see to include. For example, how broken political polling has become. I had no idea, along with the rest of the country.

It was tricky to do a cohesive narrative amongst a shifting Marvel continuity we had to stay inside; a lot of feedback and demands from various sources within the company and an election that was changing every single day. It was truthfully (heh) a quite stressful book to write, but looking back on it I'm proud to see what we absolutely nailed about American culture. In particular, what we had to say about politics as entertainment and identity, and how a slippery enough politician can not only shake scandal [off] by speeding up an already fast news cycle but embrace and twist it to their advantage.

LOKI WILL AIR ITS FINAL EPISODE JULY 14 ON DISNEY+. VOTE LOKI IS AVAILABLE NOW.

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So given Marcy's Journal and Art of DuckTales have had previews released now, what do you think of the previews? Do they give promise for both books? Does it make you hope they sell well enough to either get more Amphibia and DuckTales 2017 content or at least more lore books/art books based on Disney TVA series?

I can 't find them. But on the latter half obviously. I wouldnt mind comics continuations for either, especially now with their new deal with Dynamite means they have a monthly comics publisher again. On the terms of new content.. i'm iffy as Disney has shown time and time again they don't respect their children's animation content till it can make them nostalgia money, so while there's a VERY clear demand for comics contiuations or interquels for gravity falls, amphibia, ducktales or owl house, the odds of any of this happening is slim. I still hold out hope though for at least some and Frank and Matt DID have plenty of ideas for a season 4 that could be taken to comics. So new comic continuations (which wasn't mentioned but what the hell i'm on vacation), are iffy, but very possible if the demand is high enough. Lore books I feel are a bit more likely. While the shows left aren't exactly lore heavy yet (though ghost and molly mcgee does have a world to explore in the ghost realm, so maybe), it would be intresting to get more worldbuilding form these types of things for say GAMM or Big City Greens. They seem to be the only type of merch Disney regularly greenlights without any reservation or their usual stupidity. It's also very QUAINT talking about their usual stupidity after the ongoing HBO Max Dumpster Fire of 2020. Like... after putting up with so much horrible from WBD, i'ts nice to go back to Disney who can be downright awful, but are usually just frustratingly dumb.

As for Art Books, it's a coin flip. On the one hand, Disney has a VERY bad track record of underestimating this sort of thing and has only done so for their movies and what not. On the other the fact this exists itself is a good sign. While DuckTales is the only show they've acknowledged has multi-gen appeal half the time, it's also the first time they've done this. They HAD a gravity falls artbook ready, and likely still have all that stuff on file, and canned it for no reason, something I'd forgotten about till doing a google. So this MAY be a test run to see if people will buy these more often and if so we may get not only that Gravity Falls book, but also more. But they may also pull a disney and simply not do more because it was wet outside. I don't know. Disney can be entirely frustrating so it's a waiting game. I do think Amphibia has a high chance of it given both the shows massive sucess and unlike Owl House, Disney not being ashamed of it because their stupid. Either way i'm happy we at least got ONE fo rmy shelf that I intend to somehow get eventually, either via christmas or saving money or something and i'ts osmething previews or not i'm VERY excited for. I have Dark Horse's venture bros book and it's utterly gorgeous, giant and beautiful, and has been invaluable in my retrospective (Which for those watching still is happening the last few months have just been not great)