Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are the creative force over at Marvel right now. Kicking things off with a sublime stint on Daredevil, the duo then set their sites to Black Widow, crafting a fine follow up to the Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto series and providing a seminal storyline befitting of the character's post-Avengers popularity in the process.
And now, following a frustratingly tone-deaf year of Nazi Cap in Secret Empire, the duo are set to galvanise Steve Rogers in a move that does, on the surface at least, look like a pretty good way of distancing the character from that very event. Waid and Samnee's track record together has been phenomenal, and with their run on Daredevil ranking up there with the very best to have featured the Man Without Fear, one would hope they could replicate that success with Cap.
The first Avenger hasn't really had a good run of things since Ed Brubaker ended his critically acclaimed stint on the character a few years back, but if there's a creative team out there ready to return the star-spangled man with a plan back to the glory days, it's those two.
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.
