A while ago, I did a review of an issue of Guardians of the Galaxy that featured a character I didn’t recognize. I later found out it was one I had forgotten even existed from Image. Her name was Angela and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why she was in a Marvel book. Now that Original Sin is underway and the reveal at C2E2 about this book, it’s all starting to make sense.

Marvel has decided to write her into Asgardian lore as Thor and Loki’s long lost sister. That explains why she is so damn strong in the Guardians books. Marvel plans to illustrate Odin’s Original Sin in the form of a Tenth Realm as opposed to Norse mythology’s claim of there being 9 Realms. Apparently, Odin, in all his one-eyed wisdom, banished a whole entire complete damn Realm along with Angela and all the inhabitants! Stupid powerful.

I also did some research and while I may be a little late, at least I know what’s going on now. It appears Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman had a ten year legal battle over the characters they both helped create in the forms of Medieval Spawn and his rival Angela. I had no clue! McFarlane was awarded rights to Medieval Spawn and Gaiman was given Angela whom he apparently leased out to Marvel. Both creators have full freedom to do whatever they please with their respective awards from the legal case and both have gone on record to state that they completely stand by whatever decision the other makes concerning their respective characters.

The mini, Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm, will fall under the umbrella of Original Sin as issues #5.1 thru 5.5. It will be written by writers very familiar with Marvel’s Asgardian tales; Jason Aaron (Thor: God of Thunder) and Al Ewing (Loki). Superstar Simone Bianchi and Lee Garbett (Loki) will handle the art.

And I’ve always thought Angela kinda looked like a Valkyrie or Asgardian anyway right?

CBR has an article about the C2E2 announcement and an interview with Al Ewing about the whole shebang here