Asgardians: Loki

by George O'Connor

Overview

Following the smash-hit Olympians series, George O'Connor embarks on a new graphic novel saga about the Norse gods. This third volume tells the story of Loki, the trickster god!

As night falls on Asgard there is one who does not dream. Loki, a trickster of epic proportions, has much to think on. He hearkens back to his challenge to the wolf Fenrir to break the strongest Dwarf-made chains. He remembers Thjazi, the jotunn in monstrous eagle form, and his pursuit of the apples of youth. And he worries he has fallen out of favor with his blood brother, Odin. Can he use his cunning and wiles to worm his way back in? Or, feeling spurned, will Loki choose to burn it all down?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250760807
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	10/14/2025
Series:	Asgardians , #3
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.45(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

George O'Connor is the New York Times–bestselling author of Olympians, the series of graphic novels featuring the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek Gods. His first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country, pushed the boundaries of the genre, using as its sole text the actual historical journal of the seventeenth-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. He also illustrated acclaimed playwright Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer. He teamed up with writer Daniel G. Newman on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy, the first volume in the World Citizen Comics series. George is also the creator of popular picture books such as the New York Times–bestselling Kapow! and If I Had a Triceratops. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Editorial Reviews

2025-07-19
The mischief-making trickster gets at least a partial makeover in this set of exploits from the reigning maven of Greek, and now Norse, mythology in graphic format.

Sometimes resembling in the art a sullen teenager and other times a dead ringer for DC Comics’ Joker, Loki is cast as an untrustworthy outsider admitted to the company of the Aesir by Odin’s will but never trusted or respected. Still, he generally comes out looking better than the sneering Thor and other unscrupulous, light-skinned Asgardians who repeatedly pressure him to expedite various schemes and then unjustly blame him when they go wrong. He reluctantly helps his fellow gods cheat a hired builder, is tricked into helping to leash the giant wolf Fenrir (who’s actually his own offspring), and provides epic entertainment at a wedding feast with a bawdy tug of war in which he ties one end of the rope to his unnamed and unseen but hilariously unmistakable privates. But soon enough, Loki’s instrumental role in the god Baldr’s tragic death signals a definitive turn to the dark side. Though O’Connor slyly skips mention of that tug of war in his copious endnotes, he does expound with typical sagacity on motifs and mythological figures elsewhere in the stories, as well as noting sources, textual variants, and continuing themes that will carry over into his fourth and final planned volume in the series.

A semi-sympathetic portrait of a god too clever for his own good. (author’s note, character gallery, glossary, endnotes)(Graphic mythology. 10-13)

Kirkus Reviews

"A semi-sympathetic portrait of a god too clever for his own good." —Kirkus

Asgardians: Thor:

"With his customary close and spirited take on original sources, O’Connor sets his portrait within a frame story that has Odin’s beefiest son—portrayed as a veritable mountain of muscle—relating several renowned exploits in order to earn passage from a cloaked ferryman at a river." —Kirkus, starred review

Asgardians: Odin:

"A rainbow bridge to a fresh set of mythological places and faces." – Kirkus, starred review

Olympians:

"O'Connor's illustrations are bursting with action, humor, and lots of details."—NPR Morning Edition

"A first-rate series." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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