If you want to call it petty, then fine. But Charcoal was the result of a Create-A-Character contest, the prize of which was that the character would appear in THUNDERBOLTS. It was a fun fan thing, a way to encourage reader interaction with and connectivity to the series. And so the winner showing up later with a lawyer trying to hold us up for money after the fact left a very sour taste in everyone’s mouth–it took something that was intended to be fun and spoiled it. (And let’s not get into the question of the non-existent enormous piles of money that Charcoal was earning for Marvel.) So he was slated to be pulverized to dust, and I decided that we’d keep him that way, and never use him again. That was a change to the storyline, sure, but not materially, in that Charcoal’s return hadn’t been plotted out at that point, merely the idea that he’d be able to pull himself together at some point. Turns out that wasn’t the case–and won’t be for as long as I’m in a position to prevent it.