The new Thunderbolts will include Black Widow, Sharon Carter a.k.a. Destroyer, White Widow, Red Guardian, U.S. Agent, and Shang-Chi and will be led by Bucky Barnes and Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Barnes emerged from Kelly and Lanzing’s Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty with a new alias, the Revolution, and the series kicks off with a story about Bucky finding some damning intelligence and going after the Establishment to seek justice.
“The call has gone out to all those who call the shadows their home; every spy, assassin, and renegade has a part to play in Bucky Barnes' all-encompassing and uncompromising hit on the singular, monstrous living symbol of fascism: the Red Skull,” said Kelly and Lanzing in a statement accompanying the announcement. “Alongside our old friend Geraldo Borges, we're taking this opportunity to tell a very different kind of team book. This is a whole new era for the Thunderbolts and it starts with a four-part espionage epic, an ever-shifting cast and a single overarching goal: to tear down a century of Nazi evil with justice like lightning."
Marvel has a Thunderbolts movie in the works but it has been delayed due to the writers’ strike (see “Marvel Productions Delayed”).
