New York Comic Con 2017: 10 Major Anouncements That Must Happen
8. New X-Men Comics
Marvel
Bleeding Cool reported earlier this week that Marvel were gearing up for a bevy of X-Men announcements at NYCC, one involving Legion (which was announced alongside the aforementioned Rogue/Gambit comic), and another involving the New Mutants who, as we all know, are gearing up for their own film releasing next year.
Another book mentioned in the report was Uncanny X-Men, which will apparently return once Phoenix Resurrection ends. Astonishing X-Men will also be the main vehicle behind Wolverine's return, as well as a potential resurrection for Professor Xavier, but all these bar the Legion announcement are yet to pan out.
In any case, it's clear that NYCC will be bringing the X-Men right to the forefront of its proceedings, and if that means we get a (new) New Mutants book to tie-in with the upcoming film, then that really is great.
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.
