Loki and Baldur… almost home. They streak towards Asgard along Bifrost, the glorious rainbow bridge, and enter past the guardian wolves through the main gate. Only one step remains before they are truly home: Customs.
Introducing Heimdall, guardian of Bifrost and the walls of Asgard. Also, incidentally, Asgard’s customs official — and well-suited for the job! More on Thursday…
The time you travel a rainbow highway to a far corner of the universe, don’t thank Odin, thank a dwarf.
The Rainbow Transportation System is the most extensive transportation system in the multiverse. Not only does the RTS connect the nine worlds, but also the 11 dimensions, the seven planes of existence, the five elements, and the three acts of Aristotelian dramatic structure. Its extensive system of rainbow bridges, highways, portals, and wormholes can take you down the street to Grandma’s house or off this planet to the farthest reaches of the universe where time and space are still expanding. The Rainbow Transportation System makes the United States Interstate Highway system look like a couple of measly ant trails and the Pyramids of Egypt like triangular mouse turds. Even the Chinese in their wildest earth-moving construction fantasies cannot imagine such magnificent public works. Forget high speed rail, supersonic jets, and plutonium powered rockets… this is the real deal! So saddle up your eight legged horse and go for a real ride when the Rainbow gets connected in your village.
Frigg is worried sick about Baldur. He’s been gone to Midgard for several weeks now without sending a message home. Frigg knows her son is naive in the ways of the world, and being in the care of Uncle Loki only makes things worse.
And nevermind the hype about elves being an enlightened, noble race. Hitchhiking elves will rob you blind!
There aren’t many things worse than being stuck on a long road trip with Uncle Loki.
Loki and Baldur continue their journey on the Rainbow Bridge from Midgard to Asgard. From the bridge they are able to observe the many wonders of the natural universe. Traveling through Nifelheim, the World of Ice, and Muspell, the Land of Fire, Baldur begins to wonder if Loki hasn’t taken them on the scenic route.
Most medieval gods run from technology, but Loki embraces it.
This is the first time the Rainbow Bridge has appeared in Odin and Friends. Well, actually the second time. You may be looking at this cartoon and be saying, “hey, what happened to the comic about Baldur needing glasses because he couldn’t see the Rainbow Bridge?” Well, unless you archived it, it has been obliterated! I thought the bit about Baldur needing glasses was kind of funny, but I wasn’t happy with the direction the Rainbow Bridge was going. Wednesday’s original comic, also obliterated, started getting all pseudo mystical and meta textual and Twilight Zone-esque with the bridge coming and going depending on the strength of your beliefs, kind of like Freddy Kruger in Nightmare on Elm Street. I like the idea of Loki being able to summon the Bridge on his Crackberry much better. Plus, I think there is something metaphorically interesting about associating the God of Mischief (and ultimate turncoat of the Gods) to emerging technology. After all, it was Loki who contracted the dwarves to make Mjolnir, Skidbladnir, and lots of other cool God toys and weapons. So Loki being high tech isn’t exactly a new idea.
By the way, Odin and Friends turns one year old on April 1!
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