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Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's The Pull List,
and I'm Ryan, AKA Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week we read every single Marvel
comic that comes out.
We get super excited about 'em, and we want you to get excited
about 'em, so we pick a couple of 'em, we pick a topic,
and we tell you why we're so darn excited.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
Today we're going global.
Ooh.
We have four issues that take place across the world,
and we're starting right here in New York
with THE WEB OF BLACK WIDOW #1.
We've been really excited for this series to begin,
and what's really the most exciting part of it
for me was how unexpected it all was.
This isn't the Natasha I thought I knew.
There's some really interesting stuff going on
underneath the surface with this,
'cause it looks like a spy story that maybe we've
seen a little bit before, but then it
all changes in really interesting ways.
There's been some great stuff happening with Black Widow
over the past couple of years in general,
but this kicks it up to a new level.
And Stephen Mooney's art is so killer.
I love it so much, especially as we get into the last few pages
to see what is coming with WEB OF BLACK WIDOW.
So exciting.
Yeah.
There's this double-page spread that Stephen draws of Natasha
fighting all these bad guys, and she's basically
doing ballet moves through it.
And you can sort of close your eyes and hear the music.
It's really good.
Also really good is ALPHA FLIGHT: TRUE NORTH.
This is a big, special one shot in celebration
of Marvel's 80th anniversary, and it was
all done by Canadian creators.
It's three stories in here.
You've got one that features Snowbird and Talisman,
which is really cool.
Ends in a very emotional, deep place, which I really,
really dug.
There's a great one with James and Heather Hudson,
which has a ton of history.
It had my head spinning a little bit.
But my favorite-- I think Tucker's favorite as well--
is the one featuring Puck, who's telling
a story about being a 1930s adventurer, hunting monsters.
When you find out who his crew is, you're gonna lose it.
It's so good.
It is tremendous.
That's right.
OK.
So now we're going from Canada over to Asia
with AGENTS OF ATLAS #2.
Really there's no series like AGENTS
OF ATLAS going on right now.
This is a team comprised of a bunch of Pan-Asian heroes,
and in this issue we get to go see a new place called
the City of Pan, which is so exciting,
so inventive, so much fun--
all brought to you by Greg Pak and company.
And in Pan, we get to know a new character named Isaac
Ikeda, who is so much fun.
Love the costume.
Love everything about this new character.
Can't wait for more.
There's really fun stuff going on with him
and Luna Snow and Brawn and everybody involved.
It's really, really, really good stuff.
There's so much more to come from this series.
This is a really great place to leap
off from as we journey around with this excellent group
of heroes.
So much fun. The best.
Yes.
Also so much fun--
SAVAGE AVENGERS is the last issue of this arc, issue #5.
And we're talking about going global.
We've got two big locations in this issue.
The first is Shanghai, where the team-- which can't
really call them a team per se.
They're just a bunch of people who
like to stab and shoot things, and then
cause chaos and mayhem--
for the greater good of course.
They are fighting this giant god that is like a centaur
meets a kaiju meets a demon.
And they slice him up a lot in Shanghai.
It also takes place in the City of Sickles,
which is located in the Savage Land right now,
which is located in Antarctica.
So it is a big shift, but thankfully they
have Doctor Voodoo on the squad, who can
[SNAPS FINGERS] teleport 'em.
You get some really great stuff with Kona,
and you get some awesome stuff with Wolverine, Punisher,
Elektra, the whole lot of 'em.
It is huge and wild and gory and intense--
slicey, dicey, super fun.
But there's a lot of fun books out this week.
You can find out about all of them
on the podcast version of Marvel's The Pull List.
Get it wherever you get your podcasts and your audio,
and then we'll be back with another episode next week
I'm Ryan. - I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel, your universe.
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