Brian Bendis still ships Steve/Tony more than half the membership of cap_ironman

Bendis Looks Back at His Term as "Avengers" Assemblyman: Part Two:

[Avengers Prime] is a personal favorite project of mine. There are many, many things I'm proud of in my Avengers run, but there are going to be certain things that are personally successful to me where I don't even care if anybody else like it or not.

It's possible that he just means he loved working with Alan Davis on the project, because he talks about at great length before getting back to the content of the book:

[It] seemed like this was exactly the kind of story for Cap and Iron Man to really remember why they like each other," Bendis said. "I joked at the time that it was kind of like a super hero couples' retreat. They really just needed to get away from it all and sit around a campfire with Thor, who loves them both and was there to kind of referee and quietly nudge them towards each other. The hope was that by the end of the adventure, all will be forgiven."

Also, he is big on Thor as a yenta. Who knew?

Meanwhile, I think I am going to have to stop reading scans_daily, because I seem to love everything they hate. This may be because I have a grave, grave weakness for Tony Stark as a supervillain. (I'll admit my affection is as nothing to Jonathan Hickman's love for the moral ambiguity or outright evil of Reed Richards. That is some passion, man.) In retrospect, the opening of Avengers #1 is now incredibly creepy.