10 Marvel And DC Comics You Should Be Reading In 2019
7. War Of The Realms
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When Jason Aaron closes out his years-long run on Thor, it'll be remembered as one of the best Marvel books to have featured the God of Thunder. In terms of recent Marvel books it's definitely up there with Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, while its scale alone distinguishes it from all other superhero stories currently on stands.
War of the Realms, although separate to the main Thor series, is still the culmination of Aaron's work on the character. He's joined once again by the dynamic Russell Dauterman on pencils and Matt Wilson on colours, but this time it's more than just the God of Thunder who's involved.
War of the Realms is everything a good Marvel event should be. It's big and bombastic, but it's also incredibly unique. Aaron assembles line-ups and individual teams that fans couldn't have possibly predicted when the series was announced, ensuring that, while the situation for Earth's Mightiest Heroes is certainly dire, everything is still really fun.
Also Daredevil is now the God Without Fear. That's worth the price of admission alone.
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.
