Marvel Comics

Loki Omnibus Vol. 1 is the historical shelf for the God of Mischief before the modern antihero version takes over. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby build Loki as Thor's scheming opposite: family wound, Asgardian politics and mythic trickery translated into early Marvel energy. It belongs on the Loki shelf because it shows the trickster before reinvention: rivalry with Thor, Asgardian schemes and the raw Marvel mythology that later versions keep transforming.

Al Ewing's Loki: Agent of Asgard and the surrounding material represent one of the most ambitious character studies Marvel has produced in recent decades. Taking the young Loki established by Kieron Gillen, Ewing asks a deceptively simple question: can a god of lies become someone different? The answer unfolds across some of the most formally inventive Marvel comics of its era. It includes the Secret Wars tie-in material that concludes Ewing's arc.