Boom! http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/usctheses-m1572/etd-Vantoch-2294
September 2012
i just want you all to imagine cas saying “booty shorts” with a totally straight face
Context reading of yore (if 2010 counts as yore)
Very Optional: Siege: Loki (for context), Siege 4 (for Old Loki’s death)
Super Optional: New Mutants 11 (for the Dísir’s first appearance), Thor 611-614 (for Dísir/Leah/Hela/Mephisto/Tyr context)
Pre-JiM shenanigans in Thor’s series
Optional: Thor 617-621 (Loki’s not in all of them. 617 is his origin. This arc starts on 615, in case you want to check earlier for context)
Optional: The Mighty Thor (2011) 1-6
Fear Itself
Journey into Mystery 622, 626.1, 623
Optional: Fear Itself 2 (for context), 3 (with Loki)
Journey into Mystery 624-630
Optional: Fear Itself 7 (for context), Fear Itself 7.2 (with Loki), The Mighty Thor 7 (for context)
The Terrorism Myth + the Trolling of Asgardia
Journey into Mystery 631-636
Optional (and parallel to the previous): The Mighty Thor 8-12, 12.1
Exiled + The Manchester Gods
Exiled 1, Journey into Mystery 637, New Mutants 42, Journey into Mystery 638, New Mutants 43
Journey into Mystery 639-641
Everything Burns
Out already: The Mighty Thor 18, Journey into Mystery 642
To be released: The Mighty Thor 19, Journey into Mystery 643, The Mighty Thor 20, Journey into Mystery 644, The Mighty Thor 21-22, Journey into Mystery 645
Extra: cameos that are so out-of-canon I don’t think they should count
(Probably not canon but might pop out in Point One: Vengeance 4)
Last updated: August 29, 2012. If I’m missing something, let me know.

