Jonathan Hickman's Avengers comics could genuinely stake a claim to being among the most overlooked of the past decade, but fret not - any perceived lack of popularity in no way intimates the book's quality.
Marvel have tried a lot with their team books in recent years, with most all falling victim to event fatigue and requirements to facilitate them in some way or another. Hickman's New Avengers, however, tried something completely different.
Centred around Marvel's Illuminati (a team comprised of the smartest and most influential minds to have held Avengers membership), Hickman's comic featured T'Challa and co. weaponising the Infinity Stones to counteract inter-dimensional incursions into the main 616 timeline. That might sound like a lot to chew off, but come on, who doesn't want to see Black Panther spearheading the Earth's defence with a bunch of cosmic jewellery?
Hickman's comic would later spin-off into the mind-meltingly brilliant (and soon-to-be influential) comic, Infinity, which saw Black Panther defend Wakanda from an alien force, led by none other than the Mad Titan himself, Thanos.
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.
