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Sunday Trending Topics: Okey-Dokey, Loki

Published Sun, 15 May 2011 23:02:40 -0500

Last updated Sun, 15 May 2011 23:02:52 -0500

Ahahahaha… we posted this yesterday and I'm still laughing about it. An excellent Thor-in-four-panels by Ty Templeton. Ty previously had pretty damn funny takes on the Granito saga, Charlie Sheen, and… well, you may as well go check out his website while you're at it.

I think Templeton's work first came to my attention a long time ago due to a favorable nod from comics-reviewing ironman RC Harvey, who has been writing about comics since the fanzine days of the 1960s I believe, and is still at it online over at tcj.com, so I always take note of what he has to say. But that's a digression I suppose, so on with the show:

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Okey-dokey Loki.

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