Ranking Every 2017 Comic Book TV Show Worst To Best
24. Guardians Of The Galaxy
Disney
Much like Avengers Assemble, Guardians of the Galaxy makes little effort to differentiate itself from its cinematic counterpart.
Visually and narratively, it is indistinct from James Gunn's films, and while again, yes, that's not exactly a bad thing, it squanders yet another opportunity to have its own identity separate too the MCU.
It’s just a far cry away from the animation that was being produced after Batman: The Animated Series set the bar in the nineties, and fairly blatant with how content it is to be a tie-in and little else.
Indicative of Marvel’s lax approach to animation, Guardians does nothing wrong and yet still somehow manages to get everything wrong in doing so, daring to be nothing and exemplifying the ever-widening gap between Marvel and DC when it comes to animation.
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.
