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Marvel To Publish Young Loki's Journey Into Mystery As Omnibus – Respect Finally?

I have been known to describe the recent Vision series by Tom King and Gabriele Hernandez Walta as Marvel's Watchmen, if they knew what they were doing.

I have equally been known to describe Kieron Gillen and Doug Braithwaite (and subsequent artists) run on Journey Into Mystery as Marvel's Sandman that they definitely didn't know what to do with.

Although, yes, I realise that looks like Marvel's V For Vendetta. But that's Night Raven. Anyway.

A long, sprawling, discordant comic book series about the young Loki, diving into myth and folklore, ancient and modern and very much the forming of Kieron Gillen as a Proper Comic Book Writer.

And next year, the entire run is being collected as the Loki: Journey Into Mystery by Kieron Gillen Omnibus. $100 for the lot, 752 pages and including related work by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Matt Fraction and others.

Out in August next year, but if anyone wanted to buy it for my (gasp) 45th birthday, I'd gratefully take it.

Kieron Gillen's complete epic! The god of lies has been reborn, but will young Loki be Asgard's savior? For when Earth is gripped by Fear Itself, ancient prophecy says only Thor can stop the monstrous threat of the Serpent – but the plan is doomed to fail without help from Loki. Will the trickster find redemption – or damn himself for eternity? Either way, a Nightmare lies in wait hoping to rule the world – and Loki will have to risk everything on his craziest scheme of all! Plus: a forgotten hero returns, the New Mutants lend a hand, Captain Britain needs help with a godly war, and Hela sets her sights on the Holy Grail! But will all the nine worlds end in Surtur's fire?

COLLECTING: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 622- 645, EXILED 1, NEW MUTANTS 42-43, THE MIGHTY THOR 18-21

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