Preview – Loki: Agent of Asgard #1

January 9, 2014

He was once the Prince of Lies and the God of Mischief. Then he was the savior of Midgard. Then he was a kid. Now he’s a young adult whose loyalties are as big a mystery as his identity. He’s Loki, brother of Thor, son of Odin, son of Laufey, general untrustworthy cad who is trying to work his way out from under a reputation he’s earned for millennia.

Now, in his own series, he’s been given a special sword by The All-Mother and charged with defending Asgard from weird threats beyond the Thunder God’s purview. So far beyond, in fact, that one of his assignments involves running Thor through with that special sword. What exactly is he up to?

Check out this preview of Loki: Agent of Asgard #1, due out February 5, from writer Al Ewing and artist Lee Garbett, featuring covers from Jenny Frison, Frank Cho and Mike Del Mundo.

Comic Channel Editor

Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.