The book starts a new multiversal series

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Marvel's multiverse becomes literary.

In a new series of What If…? books that leave the comics behind, writers from across the genre spectrum will crack knuckles and mess with the comics publisher's continuum of heroes and villains. First up: What if… Loki was worthy? from Madeleine Roux (the Asylum series), a novel that finds Thor dead, New York in flames, Tony Stark on a warpath with Asgardian tech, and Loki exiled to Earth and enduring a life of "box wine, instant noodles, and some sort of regional performance troupe known as the Buffalo Bills.” Loki did an oopsie, and Roux's book explores whether he's worthy enough to make things right.Valkyrie will be along for the ride.