Kieron Gillen has had a tremendous decade in comics, and his most recent work is no exception. The Darth Vader and Young Avengers writer set his sites on a new series after concluding the Wicked + The Divine with artist Jamie McKelvie earlier this year, and with Dungeons and Dragons mounting a comeback, the comic in question, Die, couldn't have released at a better moment.
Billed as a "pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players" - as well as a "goth Jumanji" by Gillen himself - Die is a gripping epic drawn to perfection by artist Stephanie Hans, and the perfect companion for fantasy and DND lovers alike. (Granted there's obviously a large intersect there already, but still.)
At the time of writing, Image has published ten issues of Die, and all of them have been frankly brilliant. Here's hoping it maintains its momentum going into the next year.
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.
