![]() ![]() Yes, this time around Loki has to be squashed into the concurrent Secret Wars, but there’s also enough leeway for Ewing to play his own game.Īs the final curtain appears, though, Ewing pulls it all together, and the closing two chapters not only restore the Loki we began the series with, but delve into the origins of Asgardian myth. Odin with a massive old-fashioned gatling gun, the origin of Verity Willis, and some fantastic art from Lee Garbett, but for all of that much of Last Days book is replaying a familiar tune. The Loki of the past two books barely appears, as others with that name cavort across the universe sowing war among the Gods. Two books later we have trauma, angst and, yes, sadly, tedium. And it occurs so ask “Where did it all go wrong?” Trust Me introduced a new Loki, related to the old, but with a possibility of forging a different path, deftly scripted in light-hearted fashion by Al Ewing. ![]() It requires a fair amount of exposition, and when it ends the rug has been pulled again as we jump forward eight months and straight into another Marvel crossover. This was set up to conclude I Cannot Tell a Lie. ![]() Again, the title is literal as the book opens with an aged Loki from the future having created a captive audience as he relates how his recreated and well meaning younger self wouldn’t be able to avoid becoming again what he always was. ![]()
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