10 New Year 2018 Resolutions Marvel Comics Should Make
2. Bring Back The Fantastic Four
Marvel Comics
Chip Zdarksy and Jim Cheung's Marvel Two-in-One could very well be the gateway to realising the return of Marvel's first family, but, at the moment, fans are still waiting on that Fantastic return.
A consequence of Disney and Fox's feud over the on-screen rights to the FF, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben have absented the comics spotlight in recent years, but things could be set to change this year. Disney have just negotiated a mammoth takeover of 21st Century Fox and, irrespective of the many many worries that entails, it looks as though it's opened up a return for the Four on both the big and small screens.
Reuniting Johnny and Ben with Reed and Sue could've been the plan all along, but it would feel like a remarkable anticlimax if we weren't to get that reunion now, with the politics that stipulated the Four be placed in comics limbo having been made redundant by recent developments.
Only time will tell if Two-in-One paves the way for a Zdarksy and Cheung FF book, but if it does, then this year will already be a considerable improvement over the last. At least for Marvel.
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.
