It's *such* an ugly costume, not to mention it was Ross being lazy, as it's a retread of his Spidey costume design (basically, the old costume dipped in tar.) I assumed that it was forced on Brubaker, because a) so much uglier than the gorgeous Winter Soldier costume and b) I figured that surely Brubaker would give the high profile, high prestige shot at a new costume to his own (excellent) artists. But when I expressed sympathy (not directly to him, just on a thread on the Bendis boards) about being forced into it, Brubaker himself appeared and freaked out about it was totally his choice.

Which led me to the conclusion that he's a bit of a dick.