I could spend a month listing my problems with that crossover but I’ll instead focus on how it allowed Loki, Agent of Asgard to further its storyline. Magneto's actually there due to the events of Avengers and X-Men: A-Holes… I mean, Axis. There’s a nice meta-textuality in this story it feels like Magneto shows up at the end of the opening two-parter just to confirm this commentary on villains being redeemed and falling over and over again. Loki has to face the fact that no matter the circumstance, no one will ever believe that he is redeemed. I’ll have to bite my tongue about “King Loki,” as he’s called, since the amazing issue that explains who he is and what he does is collected in the trade right after this one.
He’s kidnapped and imprisoned just after finding out that an older and very evil future version of him has been working for the Asgardians. He has the same amount of magic but it’s clear to Doom (and the reader) that he’s not the Trickster of old. While Doom’s power has risen over the last few years, Loki’s has diminished due to his numerous rebirths and changes. The time Arcade struck a match on his armor is explicitly cited (Brian Cronin explains the whole backstory in this “Abandoned an' Forsaked” column).
and it’s also why he sometimes pretends to be a Doombot just to preserve the myth. It’s why he builds up the rumors of his powers and has legions of Doombots running around pretending to be him. Al Ewing positions Doom as wanting to be a god in his own way: if he can’t do it through power, he’ll do it through legend. This isn’t surprising: he had a key role in the original, and if there’s one villain who’s going to do something to stop the universe from blowing up before he can take it over, it’s him. Recent events in the “Time Runs Out” storyline have focused on Doctor Doom’s role in the upcoming Secret Wars. The writers and main artists on both books contributed to that great mini-series, but there’s a major reason why I’m skipping ahead: Doom. That story is an Original Sin tie-in called The Tenth Realm, which replaced both this title and Thor: God of Thunder briefly and revealed that Image Comics transplant Angela is their long-lost sister. It’s worth noting that there’s a bit of a gap between Trust Me and this trade. 2: I Cannot Tell a Lie (released later this month) is the only one without any official Secret Wars ties, as well as the only one not written by Jonathan Hickman.
Out of the books I’m reviewing this month, Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol.
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