Fans tend to think of Kate Bishop as a relatively new character, and that'd be correct. Even though she's been around since the late 2000s, that's nothing compared to some of Marvel's other characters, who've been going strong since the sixties and seventies.
However, during that time, Kate has managed to cement herself as a staple of the House of Ideas' comics. She's featured prominently in every volume of Hawkeye after her initial introduction, and even led the series on her own for a time. Add to that sporadic roles in various Marvel events, and even recurring roles in several team books, and it's little surprise Marvel fans consider Clint and Kate to be equals.
They share the title, and it works perfectly. Even better is the fact that Bishop is one of several recent Marvel characters who've been placed on an upward trajectory, with Spider-Gwen arguably the only other character who's experienced as meteoric a rise.
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.
