Disney Buys Fox: 8 Epic Storylines The MCU Can Now Adapt

3. New Avengers: Everything Dies

Marvel Comics/Steve Epting

When people list off their favourite Avengers runs of all time, they're likely to include Johnathan Hickman's.

The writer, together with artists like Steve Epting, Jim Cheung and Jerome Opena, crafted one of the most inventive story-arcs in recent memory with his series of New Avengers comics, the first of which (Everything Dies) could easily inspire an entire new trilogy of Avengers films on its own.

Hickman's saga has already bore cinematic fruit in Avengers: Infinity War, and will likely inspire some elements in its follow up releasing next year. With that in mind, it's almost certain that Marvel are consulting his material on the regular, and with his most lauded work having revolved around a particularly secretive Avengers group, known as the Illuminati, it's likely that it too is on Marvel's mind.

Titled Everything Dies, this particular series brought together the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Mister Fantastic, Namor and Black Bolt in a grand conspiracy to safeguard the Infinity Stones. The X-Men's very own Beast went on to play a pivotal role in the comic, and with the full roster now at Marvel's disposal, and with the opportunity to switch up the team's line-up available too, there's as good a chance as any that audiences could see the House of Ideas' very own Illuminati light up the big screen in a future phase.

Advertisement
Content Producer/Presenter

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.