Kids Comics Pitchfest 2025 Showcase

Hel's Poem

The Poem of Hel story focuses on the origins of our protagonist, Hel, who is reimagined as a young goddess who used to be part of the pantheon of the Aesir gods as a being of unique beauty, worthy of the attention of Baldur, the most beautiful god of them all. That is, until one day she was put on trial for failing to maintain the standards of perfection that the court of gods expected of her as the suitor of Baldur the Shining. Odin is the judge, Baldur is the jury, and Thor is the executioner. When her punishment comes, something ancient takes hold of her and from her corpse-lips comes a prophecy. The Wild Hunt, also known as Odin, is the only one who realizes the enormous mistake they had made that day.

My Why:

I’ve always been a fan of Norse Mythology, ever since I was a kid, and as I got into the field of storytelling, the first ever script I ever wrote was a retelling of a famous Norse poem where Thor and Loki cross-dress. I want to tell a story where I can address the openness in which gender nonconformity and femininity in men is denounced in the ancient poems, not to echo the sentiment but to analyze why this is a way of thinking that people still carry a millennium later and how it’s been turned into rejecting any type of gender nonconformity when masculinity in women was praised in Old Norse culture. Hel’s Poem is a story for kid me who always was the outcast, rejected for being ugly, black, queer, different.