Thor & Loki get into real trouble and it's up to Jane Foster to help in Double Trouble #3 preview

Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #3
(Image credit: Gurihiru/Ariana Maher (Marvel Comics))

Two issues into Marvel Comics' Thor & Loki: Double Trouble limited series, and still no sign of my favorite Thor, Jane Foster. Sure, this takes place before she became Thor… but… yeah.

Well, thankfully that's about to change as we've just received a preview of May 5's Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #3. Check it out:

How can the Loki and the original Thor meet Jane-Foster-as-Thor before she ever became Thor? 

Well, in Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #2 the god of mischief borrowed (stole) a magical sphere from Odin's vault to help him speed up some cleaning chores he and Thor were tasked with. It ended up opening a portal that pulled them through to someplace else - that's now revealed to be sometime else, when Jane Foster is Thor.

And possibly not just another time, but another universe where the man we know as the original Thor never was, and never held Mjolnir.

(Image credit: Gurihiru/Ariana Maher (Marvel Comics))

"Thor and Loki are transported to an alternate universe where they run into the Goddess of Thunder: JANE FOSTER!" reads Marvel's description for Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #3. "Can she help these misbehaving brothers find their way home?"

Thor's team-up with Thor & Loki isn't one-and-done with just this one issue, as all three - plus the female version of Loki in Sif's body - are on the cover to the series finale, Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #4.

Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #3 (of 4) goes on sale May 5, with #4 following on July 7 - a couple of days before the Loki TV show debuts. A collection of all four Thor & Loki: Double Trouble issues is expected on August 31. 

From the looks of the latest Disney Plus Loki trailer, these kinds of time and dimensional hijinx will be part of the fun of that upcoming MCU series.

Chris Arrant

Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)