santinibros
asked:
Was the Cap's Kooky Quartet story in Thunderbolts #9 written for Thunderbolts, or was it something you imported into the book to give the authors a breather? (Aside, not your department, but if Avengers 2 has a scene with only those four characters I'll be the only person in the theatre cheering.)
That story was written for THUNDERBOLTS #9. As i recall, the HEROES RETURN launch date got pushed back a month, which meant that our reveal and Avengers guest appearance was going to be out-of-line. So we built a new issue to get us back to where we needed to be rapidly, one that wouldn’t change up the ongoing status quo of the series to much. (That was also the same month that the Marvel/Wildstorm crossover happened in all of the #13s of the HEROES REBORN books, which also came about to buy an additional month, as the original deal had been for 12 issues each.)