Created when the former Marvel maestro left the House of Ideas at the turn of the 1970s, the New Gods came along and reinvented the scale of the DC Universe. Darkseid, Orion, Mister Miracle and Big Barda were all created during this period, and with the group set to take on a new level of fame when DuVernay's film moves ahead, now's a good a time as any to get cracking on that video game.
Of all the duos to focus on, Mister Miracle and Barda are the most obvious. Certainly so, given their recent resurgence in Tom King and Mitch Gerads' Mister Miracle.
Undoubtedly the main appeal, however, lies in exploring the architecture Kirby created during his time at DC. Apokolips, New Genesis and countless other planets all have their own lore to explore, and though they were broached in the aforementioned Rise of Apokolips, they've never been explored to the extent that a Rocksteady project inevitably would.
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.
