This was perhaps not the most helpful way of easing Verity’s concerns, as she has never seen Loki take female form before, but it seems to make Loki happy, at least, because ey remains in that body for the remainder of the issue.

First, last, and always,” ey shifts into a female body. Realizing that Verity is dissatisfied with this answer, Loki tries a different tack. Ey also does not seem to particularly care, except to say “it is not dying” but “that’s the thing about stories, they have to end to mean anything. She demands to know if ey is the same person as the Loki she knew, something that the latest incarnation of Loki doesn’t really seem to know emself. Meanwhile, back at Verity Willis’s apartment (which is surprisingly spacious for Manhattan, she must have a cushy job) Loki is admiring eir own chest hair while Verity becomes increasingly confused about why this weirdo she doesn’t recognize is shirtless for no reason in her bathroom. When they all tell the Allfather-in exasperated tones-that he is being ridiculous, he goes to his wife Freyja and carries on being ridiculous, much to her disapproval as well. Odin goes to a council where representatives from all ten realms have met to discuss the situation, and demands in a rather frenzied way that they all submit to his command, as he is the only one capable of leading them through what appears to be the end times. These mysterious beings tell him that if he, in the vaguest sense, “defeats his enemies” he will inherit the reborn world after the end of this latest cataclysm.

Issue #14 opens with Odin, who has dreamt of a pantheon of ancient gods. This was the only panel that mattered, tbh. The awkward young Loki we have come to know (and love?) has now been remade yet again into the bedraggled, slightly sickly-looking “God of Stories” who seems to have inherited only the vaguest impressions of young Loki’s memories. Then again, there is the issue of whether or not the title character even is the same title character that we started the series with. This marks the fourth such multi-series tie-in in just fourteen issues of Agent of Asgard, which leaves very little room for the actual title character of the series to develop while ey is busy playing backup to everyone else’s central plotlines. To be honest, I have only the most general idea of what is going on in the rest of this tie-in, because like most people I can’t be bothered to read dozens of other series in conjunction with this one, but suffice to say that the world is ending. You know, as usual, thanks to yet another over-arching Marvel tie-in event called Secret Wars that Loki: Agent of Asgard has been awkwardly shoehorned into.

Welp, the whole Marvel universe is coming to an end.

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