Marvel Studios’ first episode The Falcon And The Winter Soldier premiered on Disney + on Friday, giving Marvel fans of the film a chance to catch up with Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes and the federal government’s casual pattern of institutionalized racism. It was a good time for the most part, but one person who would like everyone to stop asking him about it is veteran comic book writer Ed Brubaker – aka the co-creator of the Winter Soldier. Brubaker was the writer of the phenomenal Captain America run that reintroduced Cap’s World War II sidekick Bucky Barnes as a brainwashed Soviet killer with a robotic arm (along with artist Steve Epting), so it stands to reason that people would love to hear his thoughts now that Bucky is the co-star of a major TV show, but Brubaker said he had “mixed feelings” about it The Falcon And The Winter Soldier in a recent newsletter through Variety
Brubaker makes it a point to say that everyone he’s interacted with at Marvel Studios (“all the way up to Kevin Feige”) has been “nothing but friendly,” but he says he and Epting are pretty much just one. ” “here or there” for creating a character and storyline that have become a core building block of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That said, Brubaker does acknowledge that he knew this was the deal when he agreed to it. to work for Marvel Comics, saying that “hiring work is what it is”, and he also notes that he is “excited” to see something he was a big part of pop culture (he seems crazy too on Sebastian Stan’s Bucky, which he says is “perfect”), but it’s all still “gotten harder to live with” over the years.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has historically been quite good at acknowledging at least the comedic writers who laid the groundwork for its stories, both in the credits and in winky cameos (Brubaker appears in Captain America: The Winter Soldier during one of Bucky’s brainwashing sequences), but this isn’t the first time a writer has brought up the fact that those things don’t necessarily translate to, you know, money
For example, The Infinity Gauntlet writer Jim Starlin had a cameo Avengers: Endgame, but he too Posted on Facebook years ago that he got a “very big check” from DC Entertainment for using his character The KGBeast in one scene of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (where he doesn’t use that name and doesn’t resemble the comic character at all), the check apparently being “ much bigger ” than anything he’d gotten from Marvel Studios at the time – despite having created or co-created Thanos, Drax and Gamora. Basically, don’t assume that these huge companies are giving money to people to whom they have no legal obligation to give money it’s good to find ways to directly support the artists you like.