As for watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he says he’s “probably be waiting a while to check it out.”
So when the Winter Soldier becomes a TV show, Marvel doesn’t have to pay Brubaker and Epting the way, for example, J.K. Rowling gets paid any time they make a new Fantastic Beasts movie.
In his newsletter, he admits that he has a “great life” as a writer, and that “much of it is because of Cap and the Winter Soldier bringing so many readers” to his work.
While Marvel Comics’ Bucky dates back to the earliest Captain America comics in the 1940s, his second life as “The Winter Soldier” was an invention of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting during their run on the Captain America comics in the mid-2000s.