Despite the fact that superheroes of comics of the biggest moneymakers lately on big and small screens, the creators who brought them to life in the first place rarely get more than a fraction of the financial success on their way. But like Marvel’s The falcon and the winter soldier cook up a storm at Disney +, cartoonist Ed Brubaker opened up about how big the difference actually is.
Brubaker, with artist Steve Epting, colored Frank D’Armata, and literary expert Randy Gentile, the team behind the Captain America cartoon running who saw Bucky Barnes return from the seemingly beyond the grave as former Red Room assassin Winter Soldier in 2005, half a century since Barnes was an active regular character in Marvel comics. But since Sebastian Stan’s iteration of Barnes was converted for the second time in the Winter Soldier Captain America movie in the Marvel Cimmoderate Universe – and is now with his own title with Anthony Mackie’s falcon on Disney + —Brubaker and his co-creatives were treated … well, less than ideal as their character has shot to pop the cultural star.
“I remember sitting there in the third movie … and just remembering how my Jack Kirby ulcer grew in my stomach: ‘That’s how it felt, kid, except a hundred times worse, so fuck you , ” Brubaker remembers seeing Captain America: Civil War during a long, candid appearance on Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin’s podcast Fatman Beyond (his appearance starts around 56:45 in the video below) earlier this week.
Brubaker began talking about his strange relationship with the rise of the Winter Soldier in the MCU, of how it would last weeks Captain America: The Winter Soldiersay Comic-Con announcement before Marvel Studios reaches out to the news to turn down a check for a thank you note Civil War what he described as ‘an insult’, and how the author makes more money from his short entry Winter Soldier‘s flashback series than he does in residues because he made the Winter Soldier alive in the first place. ‘As the years went on, I just started thinking’ why do we get nothing for this? ‘, Brubaker wondered. “We can get ‘thanks to’ or credit, but these movies are worth billions of dollars, and it feels like we just got a bad deal.”
This has created an animus for the writer that he now feels Bucky is rising to even more notoriety in the present moment, along with The falcon and the winter soldier at Disney +. ‘I think I’m probably the only person in America not excited about this show,“Said Brubaker, who has not watched any of the series so far. ‘When I see ads for [The Falcon and the Winter Soldier], it makes me feel quite sick in my stomach. ”
He added: ‘Why would [Marvel] does it want to be how the creators feel? When I work with people, I try to give them the best possible price, and if something is ultimately a bigger thing, I will try to adjust their agreement … I want everyone I work with to feel that they really very well, and they were well treated. ”
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Apart from his recent, brief remarks on The falcon and the winter soldier in his newsletterBrubaker has made relatively few comments about his feelings about the success of the Marvel movies and his relationship with them. But he further explained that after a near-death drowning experience led him to think about what would be left for his wife, he began to realize the great difference between what he saw for his Marvel work – beyond his iconic actions on the Captain America comics, which are still printed today as a definitive version of the contemporary character – and the worldwide success of the films inspired by his work.
“It’s ridiculous. Because I was a co-creator of the Winter Soldier … I do not have to worry about providing for my wife if I die now,” the author added. feel ‘it hurts a little’ to be overlooked like that. ‘
A point must be made that Brubaker and Epting did not create the character Bucky Barnes – Bucky is much older than the Winter Soldier, as old as Captain America himself first appeared with Steve on the pages of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon . Captain America Comics # 1. But it’s hard to deny that Brubaker and Epting’s transformation of Bucky is not fundamental to the version of the character we see that Sebastian Stan plays in the Marvel movies. The falcon and the winter soldier—And even if they are not direct creators, their vision of the character is likely to be drawn to much more than Kirby and Simon’s earlier version.
“I’m not unhappy with my life or that I wrote this thing,” Brubaker remarked. ‘I am very proud of all the work I have done Daredevil, on Cap, I do not like me X mans run, but there are people who liked it. I loved working at Marvel, I had a great time there. But at the same time I also feel like you know … be a little more generous? ‘
It makes the already messy deal right – put together with the way big publishers like Marvel and DC had to do creatively for decades, even before you get to the superhero movie tree – even more messy when you start thinking about it was not created these blockbuster heroes, but what version of them is the one that makes it from the page and multimedia rich. But as messy as it is, with superheroes written great in our pop culture landscape as it is, it’s a conversation that needs to be conducted in public, and candid remarks like Brubaker’s are just the beginning.
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