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 every week, we talk about a whole bunch of comics.
We tell you why you gotta get hyped for them.
Tucker, what are we talking about this week?
TUCKER MARKUS: This week, we have eight excellent Marvel
comics coming right at you.
We're highlighting four right here,
and we're starting with one that is very highly anticipated.
This is Empyre, number 0, Avengers.
And this will be the prelude to the mega massive, super huge,
galactic wide event, Empyre.
This issue is written by Al Ewing with art by Pepe Larraz.
And what a joy it is to see Pepe taking on the art duties
once again in a spectacular, massive book, just like this.
It's both intimate, you get these great moments,
like with Black Panther and Captain Marvel
and Captain America, of course, She-Hulk.
But then you have the huge, kind of, royal intrigue,
craziness that's going on at this galactic scale.
To see that all go down and then to see, of course, how
the Fantastic Four become involved
as we head towards the events of Empyre proper is so exciting.
It's so well done across the board.
It's a great book and makes me really excited for what's
to come in Empyre.
Yeah.
I also love proud uncle Thor in that issue.
He's just, like, aw, that's not my son,
but I love him like a son.
When he's talking about Koi.
Very cool.
So that's-- that's an event issue.
And this is Captain America Marvel's Snapshots, which
feels like an event issue.
It is a Captain America story, sure,
but in the tradition of Marvels, it
focuses on just a regular person, who sees events
that are going on around them.
Specifically, the events of the Madbomb, a classic Jack Kirby
story line in which Captain America and Falcon had to foil
some nefarious plans and Madbomb itself,
which was turning people into ravenous, twisted versions
of themselves, where they were killing
friends and loved ones alike.
So you've got a small group of people, particularly
a young man and his family, that are
caught up in all these things.
And what happens to him, it's just one of my favorite issues
that I've read in a long time.
Yeah, I agree.
It's so much emotional impact in that issue.
And so much emotion happening in Iron Man 2020, number four.
This series has been an explosive delight
as Arno Stark has gotten involved
as Tony Stark has fallen away.
This issue is co-written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage.
And Dan, going back to his run on Tony Stark: Iron Man,
has been dropping these seeds down and planting
so many different story ideas that revolve around
artificial intelligence in this robot revolution
that is now coming to fruition here.
But this issue was kind of a landmark moment.
It was a threshold moment in this story
because we get to see this tale told both in reality and then
also in virtual reality.
And the way that the storytellers jumped
between those is so clever.
It carries so much impact.
It feels like a big turning point
not just for the Iron Man 2020 series,
but for the 2020 corner of the universe
going on right now, in general.
And I can't wait to see how it all wraps up as we
head to the last few issues.
This issue also features my favorite panel of the week,
which is a cat at a keyboard.
All right, one more book to talk about for me,
and that is Immortal Hulk number 34.
Oh my goodness.
This one focuses on the Leader as you
see with the Alex Ross cover, who
is one of Hulk's arch nemeses.
He's an amazing character.
Samuel Sterns' art on this one is by Butch Guice,
and it fricking rules.
It's so dope.
This gives you the origin and, sort of,
frames pretty much everything you
need to know about the Leader and then puts it
through the lens of Immortal Hulk.
So it's real weird, it's dark.
It's very much a horror story.
Then tells it all to you in the Leader's point of view.
I think it's a masterful issue.
So we have these incredible four issues
and then, like I mentioned, we have four other great ones
with 2020 Rescue.
We have Spider-Ham.
We also have Star Wars Bounty Hunters.
And if that wasn't enough for you,
we also have a massive issue of Thor.
So much incredible action to dig into this weekend.
So much varied and different stuff.
That's right.
We're going to tell you all about those comics
and many more on the podcast version of Marvel's Pull List.
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real soon.
I'm Ryan.
And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.