Although a focus on variant covers and event buzzwords would seemingly imply that Legacy heralds the decline of Marvel as a publisher of comics, the actual content being promised sounds, well, promising.
The upcoming one-shot, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Esad Ribic, is too zany not to love. Just look at Ghost Rider here - he's on a mammoth! That's awesome!
There's also the matter of the solicitations announced thus far, which, while undoubtedly typical of any ordinary Marvel year, contain some truly inventive books with some really unexpected creative teams. There's a clear commitment here to divest from tropes gone by.
While 1,000,000 BC Avengers probably won't appeal to everyone, it's the sort of zany, fun story that Marvel has sorely lacked in recent years.
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.
