Yup, Thor is MIA in that story arc on account of being dead, and the lack of a reunion is annoying (also it's tragic because other than the funeral issue you get no mourning whatsoever on anyone's part, because they don't remember Thor ever existed...)
My last post had more of the interview with Gillen, including something nifty he said about the fixed nature of comic books, and how he's using audience expectation in his favor in JiM...it's clever storytelling, I must admit!
Oh, and while I'm mentioning things that I'm enjoying about the JiM books (and I imagine this is a big draw for you too!), I love how clever Loki is, how his plans have layers and layers to them and you can never quite be sure if what he's doing is just another layer to the plan. It reminds me a lot of the heist shows I like, where most of the fun is watching the characters' twisty plans unfold.
Hee, oh yes, that is absolutely one of my favorite things about the character (about any version of Loki, really!) - he's always got about 6 different plans going at once, and multiple motivations for anything he does, and you're always peeling back one to find the other and not quiiiite sure you've found the bottom, or if he's actually got something else going on that you don't know about. And at the same time he's always screwing things up and overestimating his own cleverness and getting into trouble and getting out of it. I love that even with kid!Loki, you can't trust most of what he says (actually kid!Loki is even better than old!Loki at obfuscation; he tends to avoid lying outright but is very good at, hmm, creative truth-telling. While original!Loki is too evil, kid!Loki and Neal Caffrey would get along famously, I feel ^^)
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My last post had more of the interview with Gillen, including something nifty he said about the fixed nature of comic books, and how he's using audience expectation in his favor in JiM...it's clever storytelling, I must admit!
Oh, and while I'm mentioning things that I'm enjoying about the JiM books (and I imagine this is a big draw for you too!), I love how clever Loki is, how his plans have layers and layers to them and you can never quite be sure if what he's doing is just another layer to the plan. It reminds me a lot of the heist shows I like, where most of the fun is watching the characters' twisty plans unfold.
Hee, oh yes, that is absolutely one of my favorite things about the character (about any version of Loki, really!) - he's always got about 6 different plans going at once, and multiple motivations for anything he does, and you're always peeling back one to find the other and not quiiiite sure you've found the bottom, or if he's actually got something else going on that you don't know about. And at the same time he's always screwing things up and overestimating his own cleverness and getting into trouble and getting out of it. I love that even with kid!Loki, you can't trust most of what he says (actually kid!Loki is even better than old!Loki at obfuscation; he tends to avoid lying outright but is very good at, hmm, creative truth-telling. While original!Loki is too evil, kid!Loki and Neal Caffrey would get along famously, I feel ^^)