Marvel is currently in the midst of its biggest event in years with War of the Realms, but that hasn't stopped the House of Ideas from barrelling headfirst into their next big thing.
Over the course of the last week, various writers and artists were teasing an upcoming collaboration of sorts. Pooling creators from across the industry - some old, others new - it looked as though Marvel were gearing up for something huge. That 'something' was then revealed to be Marvel Comics #1000, a celebratory one-shot designed to coincide with the publisher's eightieth birthday.
Much like DC did with Action Comics #1000 and Detective Comics #1000, this upcoming comic is set to be a bumper issue and features so much talent that some creators will only be getting a page each to work their magic.
It's not without its faults so far though. There are 97 individual creators involved in the issue, but only nine of them are women. It doesn't take a long time to realise that ratio is way off.
Be that as it may, there's still plenty about the issue for Marvel fans to get excited about. Here's everything we know so far...
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
