Loki #2

The second chapter of Marvel's four-part Loki limited series offers a beautifully unsettling image courtesy of cover artist Travel Foreman: a pale, horned Loki looms tall against a teal twilight sky, staff in hand, gazing down at a fallen armored warrior sprawled among scattered white blossoms at his feet. The composition is surprisingly serene yet charged with menace, that dreamlike floral setting making the power dynamic between the two figures feel all the more ominous. With Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writing and Sebastián Fiumara on interior art, "Blood Demands Blood" promises the kind of mythologically rich, atmospheric storytelling this series has been building toward.