'Secret Avengers' changes revealed

Marvel Comics' Senior Vice-President of Publishing Tom Brevoort has explained why writer Ed Brubaker decided not to continue writing Secret Avengers.

The company recently announced that T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents writer Nick Spencer will take over the series following Brubaker's departure from the title this April.

"I don't know that we've said this anywhere yet, but Secret Avengers #12 will be Ed Brubaker's swan song on the book," Brevoort confirmed to CBR. "He realised he had enough other things on his plate and some other stuff coming down the road, and that was the book that strained his mind more than any other.

"He was not having a wonderful time with it," Brevoort explained. "It didn't flow for him in the same way that writing Captain America or Daredevil or Criminal flowed for him."

Brubaker reportedly felt that he would have told most of his main story by the twelve issue of the series, leaving Secret Avengers in the right place for a new writer to take over on the title.

After Secret Avengers #12, Spencer will write a special "Point One" issue as part of a Marvel initiative to draw in new readers, followed by a three issue tie-in arc to the company's upcoming Fear Itself event.

Brubaker's final issue of Secret Avengers will be published on April 20.