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Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's Pull List.
And I'm Ryan Penagos, a.k.a.
Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And, look, we're here.
We're here to tell you about comic books.
And recently, we've been talking about some classic books,
some stories that we love.
It's been great.
It's been wonderful.
But today is a glorious day because we have brand-new
frickin' comics for your faces.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
Brand-new comics, that's right.
May 27's new releases, we have Spidey stuff.
We have Avenger stuff.
We're going to Krakoa.
We're going to Star Wars.
We're going to see the sickly symbiote.
We have so much on offer, and I have been waiting for it,
and it's all here.
Ryan, what are we starting with?
Fwip, fwip.
It's time for Amazing Spider-Man, issue number 43.
I loved issue number 42.
It's probably my favorite issue of
the entire Amazing Spider-Man run that we're currently in.
It's so emotional.
It's a story about a giant monster/alien creature that
comes to Earth, and rampages, and it's
tragic story, and everything.
And then this follows up on that with humor,
with action, and some of the best dang Spidey art
you're going to see these days.
Ryan Ottley crushing it with his renditions of the web-slinger.
And, of course, Nick Spencer, just he's on a roll, man.
It's so good.
It's incredible.
Going from Amazing Spidey over to Avengers.
This is Avengers, number 33.
It's written by the great Jason Aaron.
But the art on this issue is by an artist, Ryan,
that you and I are both really big fans of.
And I think it's his first time with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
It's Javier Garron who brings it.
This is the start of a new story arc that
centers around Moon Knight.
We get to see how Moon Knight is slowly, slowly clawing his way
through the Avengers team.
So much fascinating stuff to come.
It's really a kind of dream combination
to get all of these pieces here together.
Can't wait for more.
RYAN PENAGOS: And it has one of my favorite martial arts
battles in comics of recent memory.
Man, this issue rules.
Another issue that rules is Marauders, number 10.
And, look, everybody is excited.
They've been like, X-Men, X-Men, X-Men, X-Men.
Give me my Mutants.
Well, you've got some Mutant stuff in here.
There's a whole bunch of stuff that's going on.
The Marauders team has had a lot of highs, a lot of lows.
And unfortunately, there's been a major death for their crew
and for mutant-kind.
And it even gets more intense this issue with a letter,
a prose page from Nightcrawler to someone else,
that is one of my favorite bits from the entire Dawn of X
so far.
But there's a great bit of revenge in here,
and you get to see the Marauders team finally let loose.
And, look, we've got Bishop in here
being the badass that he is.
That's all I care about.
Totally.
Next up, we are going from the Marvel Universe
over to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars--
Doctor Aphra, number 1.
I am so, so pumped to see where Doctor
Aphra goes in this post Empire Strikes
Back era of Star Wars comics.
This issue is brought to you by Alyssa Wong and Marika Cresta,
two incredible creators who are jumping
on board with this character and really,
really making her their own.
I'm also excited about the supporting cast
that we get to know in here.
That's something that you can just tell
is going to be so special moving forward.
So much to enjoy in any Doctor Aphra
book, let alone a fresh, new voice,
a new start like this one.
Could not be more excited to continue
reading stories of Doctor Aphra because, look, she's a rogue.
She gets into trouble.
You never know where she's going to end up.
Hey, Tucker, I just--
I had something running through my head.
Yeah.
No time for love, Doctor Aphra.
You get it? You get that reference?
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, I knew that would tickle you.
All right, we've got one more book to talk about this week,
and it is Venom, number 25.
It is the final part of Venom Island.
Donny Cates has been doing amazing stuff as the writer
of Venom, and he's had incredible collaborators
the entire time, of course, starting with Ryan Stegman, who
has two pages in this issue that are
going to knock your socks off.
But then this story line has had Mark Bagley,
one of Venom's most famed artists
and people who have drawn the character over time.
There's a sequence in the beginning of this issue.
Tucker, you know what I'm talking about.
Oh, yeah.
It's when you just see Eddie Brock up close,
and he's talking to the camera.
It's so simple but so wonderfully done,
both from the dialogue standpoint
and from just the acting that Mark brings to the table.
It's incredible.
And on top of all that, you bring David Michelinie and Ron
Lim, classic Venom creators, coming in
to tell a story that's set way back
in the '90s when the original Venom Island sort of story line
happened.
And it is great.
It is wacky.
It's Eddie talking to the symbiote,
talking about eating people, stopping bad guys,
just living his best life.
It's a lot of fun.
Great comics this week, and we talk about them and some
more this week on Marvel's Pull List, the podcast version.
Get it wherever you get your audio.
And then we'll be back with another video version
next week.
I'm Ryan.
And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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