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My dad had a bunch of comic collection books (mostly Batman and some Marvel) and I enjoyed reading those as a kid. Read some indie titles as a teenager, but never bought super hero comics until I was an adult. Like P-C, most of my experience comes from the assorted cartoons.
In regards to the nature of Loki's plan, here's an interesting take on it: [link]
That's pretty close to my reading of it--he wanted Thor to leave Asgard and pay attention to him.
How many of you who didn't read comics as kids had brothers?
I have three brothers and two of them are older than me. Even so, comics just weren't a thing in our house. I remember reading a few Archie comics or Richie Rich comics as a kid, but that was it. I got into genre books by way of my oldest brother, who read a lot of SF, so I grew up not with comics but with Andre Norton.
My older brother was never into comics.
I was a voracious comic book reader from about age 9 to 17. Comics and used paperbacks ate up all my lawn mowing, babysitting and bottle returning money back then.
There was a time in there where I bought literally every single Marvel and DC title, a fair number of Archie and Harvey, the B/W Conan and the Warren horror titles, plus occasional upstart stuff like Iron Jaw and Elfquest.
So me and comics were tight in the 1970s.
I had some Archies stuff, I remember, but even my younger brother really wasn't into comics -- he was a HUGE Star Wars geek as a kid, though.
Finnick casting talk seems to be picking up again. Both Jezebel and IO9 are talking about it.
The open-minded stance seems to be that casting Jesse Williams will right all the wrongs in Hollywood, but he's not one of the names listed: Garrett Hedlund, Taylor Kitsch, and Armie Hammer.
I've only really seen Taylor in anything, and I think he'd be fine, considering our lack of time machines.
I don't really care much, but the name Armie Hammer makes me laugh every time I see it!
OMG, I've been hung up on this casting forever. I think I have an Evernote keeping track of suggestions (with pics) and a tumblr tag for it.
Oh, man. I think Taylor could rock that.