Dan Watters and Germán Peralta’s Loki series is off to a rollicking start, by blaming every “Florida Man” news headline on Loki himself.
That’s right, it’s not that Florida’s freedom of information laws give journalists easier access to information about police arrests — it’s that Loki is constantly sneaking down to the Sunshine State to get arrested for remarkable behavior.
Or, OK, maybe it’s the freedom of information thing. After all, we only have Loki’s word for it, and he is a god of mischief.
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Dan Watters writes really solid comics, while Germán Peralta draws the same, so it was no surprise to me that Loki #1 was a delight. I already wish there were more than four issues to this story of the God of Lies Stories.
See, Loki tried to teach frost giants how to read, and one thing lead to another and the Naglfar warship — that’s the one made out of the fingernails of the unburied dead that Loki will ride to ruin in the final Ragnarok — crashed into the world tree. Now Loki has to track down three scattered pieces of debris from the ship, before the “driftwood” made of black magic and abandoned souls causes complete havoc.
Oh, also, the comic is morosely and amusingly narrated by the collective unburied souls of the Naglfar.
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