Sorry for the non-Star Wars post, but I had to comment here.
See how, in the panel @sulcata posted, Young Loki is standing on the right side of the panel, even though he's the first person in the script to speak? That's bad comic layout. See, by placing him on the right side, it turns his dialogue into a wall the rest of the panel is constrained by. That gorgeous monologue by the Loki ghost/hologram/thing is forced into a big, illegible1 ball in the center of the panel, and all the possible dynamism of the comics medium is lost.
See, one of the great strengths of comics is its ability to use space and contrast to convey timing and emphasis. I went ahead and flipped the panel, so Young Loki is now on the left side. You can see what I mean.
Unconstrained by position, Young Loki's dialogue naturally begins in the top left-- your eye just flows right onto it. By breaking up the two questions he has, you can feel the momentary pause in asking them. It makes the "performance" more natural.
Then you get to do something fun-- we can literally make the pronouncement from Translucent Loki2 tower over his younger self, adding to its drama and power. Breaking each statement up and popping emphasis makes it a lot more legible. We can even break that last sentence off from the rest to give it space and let the joke land stronger.
But that's only if we have the room to do it, and the artwork itself determines what's possible!
I'm not saying the creative team is bad by any means-- this isn't a dire panel the original way by any imagination, and thing slip through the cracks all the time. But it could have been a much more legible and dramatic panel with a simple edit in the layout phase. Isn't that fun!
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I also have tremendous qualms with the faux-Uncial font this book is using. That cute "h" glyph is essentially illegible. Classic Thor comics achieved their "old timey accent" through "thee and thou" purple prose; but if you go searching for "Loki comics" up until recently you can find a very similar font that still uses some medieval shape language to spice up the letterforms, but has the good sense to keep the "h" looking like an "H" for legibility.
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I should probably read this book to find out, huh?
