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Loki, the Original Prankster

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Another late, late April Fool's post.  I previously covered other pranksters the Joker and Mxyzptlk.  But Loki was the original.  (Ironically, I haven't covered the Prankster, another Superman foe.  I don't think there's much to cover with that character crossover wise.) Please note this post is not, I repeat not, about really cool TVCU Crewsie Loki Carbis... though maybe it should be. Also, we will not be discussing Loki, the Angel of Vengeance seen in Dogma (except for in one entry below.) 1981 --  By this point in time, when Mike Nero was 13, his anger and resentment towards the treatment he received from his peers and his inability to get along with and be understood by his family had taken a terrible toll on his psyche. It was at this low point in his early life that he was approached by Rutger, a representative of the Brotherhood of Fenris, worshipers of the Norse lupine deity known as the Fenris Wolf (and none other than the progeny of Loki, the notorious g

The Saga of Christopher Kowalski: A Wronskiverse post

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A late April Fool's Day Post....  I created the Wronskiverse way back in 1978.  I've added to it for many years.  For most of my life, most of my fiction took place here.  (Now I write within the TVCU framework.) Since I'm mostly retiring this universe, I thought I'd share a bit of my early crossovers. Christopher Kowalski started off as being me, Bobby Wronski, in my early stories.  I was 5 when I started writing these stories, so there was a lot of copying other popular fiction, but placing me into the lead role.  As I got older, I used the storytelling to tell some stories that were metaphors for things going on in my own life, as well as homages and parodies of popular super-hero tropes. A version of the character has been introduced into a more shared reality through my I was a Teenage Super Hero post, and I'm starting to wedge that character into some published stories within the next year. So this post isn't the TVCU.  It's the Wronskiverse,