W.I.L.D.C.A.T.S. is a nineties dream that just doesn't seem to die - and for good reason. Jim Lee nailed a brilliant premise and aesthetic with the Wildstorm series, and it's criminal we've not seen much of it since.
Of all the ill-fated Wildcats revivals though, the most frustratingly promising has to have been Grant Morrison and Jim Lee's series from 2006. It lasted only one issue into a planned twelve-issue run, eventually succumbing to cancellation as a result of multiple delays, and the details revealed by Morrison and Lee only makes the series' loss all the more disappointing.
Morrison seems to float between different projects all the time (Multiversity took a notoriously long time to get made, and it seems as though the follow-up will be no different), so there's still a chance he could return to Wildcats. Here's hoping that, if he does, the team's co-creator will be right there with him.
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.
