Random Happenstance

This wasn't the issue I thought it was, but the cover was so great, still worth it: from 2014, Thunderbolts #19, written by Charles Soule, art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, cover by Julian Totino Tedesco.

What could be more relaxing than a road trip?...in a van without air conditioning, with some of the crabbiest people on earth? Samuel Sterns, the Red Leader, has had about enough of the Thunderbolts; who haven't yet noticed he was subtly manipulating them. He's pretty sure he could kill them all, if he played his cards right, except for Mercy...who I had kind of forgotten about. Worse, while he plays out his plan in his head, after a recent battle with Thanos's agent Super Giant he took some brain damage, on top of the damage he took at the start of the series; so Leader was doubting himself, and decides to hold out instead of chance it.

Most of this issue didn't really happen, except it appears Deadpool did indeed request a bullet to the head rather than sit through their road trip. Look, it's not like Frank and Elektra were going to lead a singalong. They probably didn't even turn on the radio...

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