Ranking Every 2017 Comic Book TV Show Worst To Best
19. Lucifer
Fox
A spin-off of Neil Gaiman's seminal Sandman comic, Mike Carey's Lucifer series never really seemed destined for either the big or small-screens. Still, it's a reality that, in 2017, we somehow have a Lucifer TV series and not a single adaptation of Sandman in sight.
Even weirder is that Lucifer, another series in Fox's long line of comic book covers, is a police procedural. Better still, the format has actually served the series well, with the third season in particular garnering accolades from across the board for its writing and, for the most part, the strength of its characters.
It's no Constantine, that's for sure. But Lucifer's an enjoyable show when it wants to be. Certainly so, if you can get past the fact the lead was also Gary from BBC's Miranda.
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.
