10 Most Anticipated Comics Still To Come In 2017

by Ewan Paterson

1. Doomsday Clock

Doomsday Clock 1
DC Comics

Release Date: November 22

Although Alan Moore will find little cause to be excited regarding DC's latest comic event, fans of the Watchmen and indeed, the DCU more generally will have have plenty, especially with how Geoff Johns has been hyping it up.

Doomsday Clock, an event that has been built towards since last year's DC Rebirth, will see the Watchmen collide with the mainstream DC Universe in a story that promises to be both fantastical and grounded; a comic rooted in the zeitgeist of November 2016 as much as it is the Cold War milieu that birthed Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal series.

While the thought of seeing Superman cross paths with Dr. Manhattan might seem like something of a cynical ploy on DC's behalf, Johns has spoken at length regarding just how important the story is to him. It's clear that this is a passion project of sorts, and with the way in which DC has changed these last five years, it feels like the perfect thematic bookend for those changes - particularly so, when it comes to Rebirth.

Any attempts to bring the Watchmen into mainstream DC canon were always going to garner a lot of attention, but - in Doomsday Clock's case - it feels justified. Indeed, it even feels like a genuine tale, one determined to embody the thematic importance of Moore's original series. And while that might seem like an unlikely event in any case, Johns and artist Gary Frank have all the tools at their disposal to make it work and then some.

That's exciting, and even if you find the liberal use of Moore's characters somewhat repellant, it's hard to deny the case that Johns has put forth for the upcoming series. Here's hoping it lives up to the hype.

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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.