Mighty Avengers 34

Man, Hank Pym cannot catch a break. You hit your wife ONE TIME and you're written as a crackpot for the rest of your comic book career.

As you might expect, this issue has a two functions: to tie up hanging plot threads so that this series can transition into the upcoming Avengers book, and to provide filler until the Mighty Avengers Siege tie-in issues begin next month. And it performs both of these duties with as much awkwardness as it can muster.

So Hank Pym has this crazy idea to kidnap Loki so that they can ask him about the Scarlet Witch. Oh, and then torture him. Perfectly reasonable. Which is apparently really easy with SCIENCE! Also, it helps if you know where he's going to be, which we do because of some confusing plot point that's never been mentioned before and which Hank Pym knows because we need to move this plot along.

So Loki calls out to his brother Thor, who arrives for a chat. And that's pretty much all that happens, chatting. He takes a shot at Quicksilver, but it takes about a page and then we're done.
Hank Pym releases Loki to Thor's custody, and in return Thor offers Hank Pym an answer from Loki to any question he'd care to ask. So, in a move that marks new levels of crazy for Pym and new levels of contrived writing for Slott, he asks Loki if he'd like to join the Mighty Avengers. Instead of asking him about the Scarlet Witch. Now, I don't expect any revelations about the Witch until Marvel is ready to approach the issue, but I do expect characters (like Hank Pym) to behave reasonably and consistently from one issue to the next.

Pym's status as "Scientist Supreme" is retconned almost as quickly as it was established (it was a trick, Loki did it... maybe. It's not clear). And Pym's newfound level-headedness is just as quickly thrown out the window so that we have an excuse for the Mighty Avengers to disband and perhaps to write off or kill Pym at the end of the series. Because how can we have Hank Pym without him making awful decisions? The only thing that's missing is Ultron...