Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
They did not.
He wrote the story on a character who was widely seen as disposable and never all that interesting to start with. Bucky was a Robin-copy character after all, at the outset.
Wow wish-fulfillment on full display here:
-- First of all, Winter Soldier was a successful story in comics years before the movie came out.
-- Only a sliver of the percentage who saw the Winter Soldier movie actually went out to read the comics.
A sliver of a sliver of a sliver. Not significant or relevant enough to form a sample.
If Disney were so above and so much more capable, then they could have created their own IP and stories and so on instead of just buying stuff outright.
So no, I'd say Disney doesn't deserve a single damn thing. Especially since the first Captain America which already featured a Brubaker-inspired Bucky set up to become WS, pre-existed their purchase of Marvel.
It's not promotion. And if it's free for anyone, it's for Disney.