Thee Cult Magazine: Issue 4 - Magazine Sampler

Thee Cult Issue 4: The Superhero Issue 

SHIPPING WEDNESDAY 9 JULY 2025

It’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. It’s a sneak peek at Thee Cult Magazine’s boldest issue yet. This 16-page digital sampler offers a taste of Issue 4: The Superhero Issue, ahead of the full 80-page print release.

INSIDE THIS FREE PREVIEW

FEATURE 

• Fantastic Four: First Steps or Final Hope? by Dolu Aina

  The Fantastic Four has spent thirty years trapped in the wrong stories - flattened, sidelined, and rebooted into irrelevance. This piece charts the long road from cult classics to catastrophic misfires, and in the midst of the MCU’s creative unraveling, considers First Steps a shot at something deeper. It's a chance at restoring the weird, intimate magic that made Marvel’s First Family (and the MCU) timeless.

CULTURE

• The Passion of Chalamet by Daniel Chandler

  Following Timothée Chalamet’s viral SAG speech, where he declared his desire to be "one of the greats"; this article explores why creative ambition makes us uncomfortable - and how we’re conditioned to mock sincerity, downplay dreams, and fear the audacity to want more. From classrooms to TikTok, this piece unpacks the quiet shame around choosing to care.

MUSIC

• No Black in the Union Jack by Calvin Shanu-Taylor

  National identity, sonic rebellion, and the Union Jack as both stage and cage. A provocative deep dive into Black British music’s uneasy dance with patriotism.