Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones' book about young LGBTQ hero America Chavez is everything a Marvel book should be: fun, diverse, and culturally salient. It also has a fantastic creative team, with Rivera herself being a Latinx QTPOC writer, and Quinones being, well, a fantastic artist all around.
The book follows America Chavez, AKA Miss America, when she's not kicking holes in time or being an Avenger. In that sense it's very much a character-driven tale, and Rivera obviously has an eye for the hero. Quinones' pencils also pop and burst off the page much the same they did in his work on Paul Dini's Black Canary/Zatanna OGN, which lends the book a unique but also consistent style many of its contemporaries fail to match.
Like Black Panther and the Crew, Gabby Rivera's America stands tall as being among the most important works in the medium this year. Revolutionary on and off the page, it's the type of book that you want to see Marvel publish more of. We can only hope that more is set to come.
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.
