"Maybe this is what you should do instead of," shrugs, "any of this. Be an artist. Fill commissions. Get put up in galleries." He flips through pages studiously, genuinely interested. He's never been an artist himself, doesn't really know shit about it, but he can tell it's good.

"I can't believe there was a time when all this shit was simpler," he says, thumbing a page with Thor's grinning face like he might shine right through the paper.