Originally Posted by
Raye
Artist or Thor tie in stuff seem most likely. Though with tie-in stuff, you'd think they could have either padded out the first arc for another issue or two, or make the Wolverine thing 2 issues, or done another done in one issue where he flashes back to a different period of time, i mean not like they are going to run out of potential material as far as flashbacks go, since he's over a thousand years old. Lots of potential ground to cover from medieval to Victorian (like, 1850's kinda stuff, before Wolverine, which is Edwardian, i guess), or any point in between... and you know, it just occurred to me, the sliding timescale keeps opening up potential flashbacks from the 60's through to the... i guess we're at the MU starting (as in formation of the Fantastic Four) during the early 2000's. Which is kind of mind boggling to me since that is after i started reading the books. I mean i kinda didn't get much into Marvel until very late 90s, i was more into Vertigo (RIP) before that, but still. Could be interesting to explore that aspect, for sure. Flash back to the 80's or 90's and it's BEFORE the FF formed even though that happened in the 60's in a publishing sense, and the stories reflect that. Explore how the past shifted and changed.
anyway yeah... Art troubles seems likely given that there were the multiple artists on issue 4, and we do have a different artist on issue 5. It's release schedule slipped with issue 5 too, it was 2nd Wednesday of the month for the first 4 issues, then issue 5 is on the 20th of November, the 3rd Wednesday. So it feels like there was a bit of a scramble to get issue 5 out that month at all. But if MacDonald is the new artist going forward, you'd think they'd have just continued on from there, not skip another couple months. so it feels to me like kinda were looking for a new permanent replacement that's not him. But I could be wrong. Still holding out hope that maybe they were waiting on Babs Tarr finishing up her thing so she can jump on to Loki, but it could be just about anyone. And we get a sort of relaunch/do-over when the new artist comes aboard.
but it could also be kinda both. New artist AND story tie-in with Thor.