New York Comic Con 2017: 10 Major Anouncements That Must Happen
9. A New Arkham Title
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Although it's been quiet on the Arkham front for some time now, and NYCC is as unlikely a time as any for a new announcement to drop, it would be brilliant if DC could kick off the show with a look at a new entry in the series, ostensibly being cooked up by Warner Bros. Montreal.
Dubbed Arkham: Insurgency in a leak posted a while back, the title will supposedly follow on from Arkham Origins and be jam-packed with a gigantic cast of rogues, an origin story for Dick Grayson's Robin and, most importantly, will most definitely not include a Bat-tank. Woo!
Arkham Origins gets a bad rap for a whole host of reasons, but Montreal have been plying their trade on something for the past few years. There's little doubt that it'll be DC related; whether or not it's Batman, however, remains to be seen, and - even if Rocksteady are teasing something - Montreal's project deserves an official announcement. If not at NYCC, then at another event down the line.
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.
