DCEU: 10 Comics It Must Adapt To Beat Marvel

by Ewan Paterson

1. Justice League: New World Order

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For over a decade, writer Grant Morrison made the DC Universe his own. Whether it was through Animal Man, Batman or Justice League, the writer always managed to bring some of the most inventive, creative and compelling stories going.

Justice League: New World Order might not be the most blockbuster League tale going, but it did bring the group back in a uniquely brilliant way. It also featured a definitive lineup, comprised of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. It's the exact lineup WB should look to emulate in the future, but with the League ostensibly on hiatus, that future could be a long way off.

In any case, New World Order presents the perfect template to bring a whole new version of the Justice League into being. It doesn't matter if there's no Superman, Flash or Cyborg (it does matter if there's Martian Manhunter though, let's be honest), what is paramount is that it gets to the core of what makes the League so fascinating.

They aren't just another group of Super-Friends with ridiculous powers, but a team with a proper legacy. That never really shone through in Joss Whedon's film, but with this kind of story informing a potential revival, WB could make the world fall in love with the team on the second go.

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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.