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4. Spider-Man's Life Story Heads To The Nineties
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The first issue of Spider-Man: Life Story drops this Wednesday, and it's quickly shaping up to be one of Marvel's most exciting books this year.
Written by Chip Zdarsky and with art from Ultimate Spidey alum Mark Bagley, Life Story takes a linear approach to Spidey's life beginning with the 1960s. Issue by issue, the duo will show how Spidey changed from decade to decade, and June specifically looks as though it'll dwell on the nineties.
Telling a Spider-Man biography through the lens of each decade's milieu is a complete masterstroke of a premise, and the synopsis for the fourth issue only makes it sound more interesting.
"Spider-Man’s life enters the 1990s! The COLD WAR is no longer cold as PETER PARKER returns to a world gone MAD! But will he let that madness infect HIM and his family?"
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.
