Kevin Feige has been running Marvel Studios for a while, and while the movies had generated billions for Disney, the studio has admittedly been in a bit of a slump.
Captain America: Brave New World didn’t make the same kind of splash that Marvel would have during its heyday, and it looks like Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld decided it was time to publicly shame studio head Kevin Feige into returning from his position at Marvel.
In a recent post on Twitter, Liefeld shared the dwindling second weekend of Captain America 4, and called Feige to get ‘off the mound.’ Here’s his post:
Get Feige off the mound. He’s spent. https://t.co/5EimiviiBt
— robliefeld (@robertliefeld) February 22, 2025
This tweet wasn’t unexpected either. Earlier in the month, Liefeld had made headlines when he publicly announced that he would no longer be working with Marvel after their treatment of him with Deadpool and Wolverine. Liefeld mentioned that he wasn’t even invited to the afterparty at the premiere (he was said to have joined those for previous Deadpool films), and a lot of his haters begrudgingly agreed that Liefeld had a point when he said that, “Kevin Feige does not treat comic book creators well.”
Liefeld had written in an e-mail:
“Marvel’s treatment of creators has never been their strength… Without the worlds, the characters and the concepts that we create — and in this specific case, the world of Deadpool — there are no films to shoot. No blockbusters to distribute. … I am not the easy button at Staples. I am the human imagination behind it all… Comic book creators cannot continue to be relegated as afterthoughts. This is easy to address. Unless I reach out to address it, it will never manifest.”
Admittedly Liefeld is considered by a lot of comic fans as a hackjob opportunist, which managed to make him one of the most successful comic book artists in the 90s. But nevertheless, they agreed with his statement that Marvel has not been nice to comic creators. Besides him, there have been several artists that fans think Marvel had snubbed including Winter Soldier creator Ed Brubaker and Hakweye artist Matt Fraction.
As for Feige, we don’t know when he’ll eventually run out of steam at Marvel, but maybe it is time for someone new to take on the reigns after Avengers: Secret Wars.
