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Hello, Marvel-ites.
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.
And we get excited.
And we want to tell you what you should be excited for.
We pick a couple of books.
We pick a topic.
Tucker, what are we talking about this week?
Get your popcorn, because it's all about summer
blockbusters this week.
We have so many huge issues, a bunch of new number ones,
a bunch of big stories.
We've picked four for you here today.
And we're starting with Agents of Atlas number one.
I have been so excited about this series.
And I know a bunch of people literally across the world
have been so excited for this new ongoing.
We have a team of Asian and Asian-American Super Heroes
coming together.
We first saw them unite in "War of the Realms."
And now we're seeing them in their own series, led
by Amadeus Cho, who's kind of getting to know
the whole leadership thing, like, as he goes,
which is so much fun.
Then we have Jimmy Woo and Shang-Chi
and Luna Snow, K-pop superstar.
We have Crescent and Io, and Wave, and Sword Master,
and Aero.
There are so many heroes in here.
If you're a fan of any one of these characters,
then this is required reading.
I love this issue so much.
It's a great start.
Tucker, you forgot to mention that it also has dragons!
And also, there's a dragon-ish in Future
Foundation number one, which has Dragon Man and a great team.
This is spinning out of the pages of Fantastic Four.
And it's really cool.
I love the idea behind this book.
It's the smartest kids in the multiverse
just going around, discovering stuff, learning, experiencing.
But now, they have a very specific mission.
They're looking for the scattered pieces of
their friend, the Molecule Man.
He's all over the multiverse.
And so they find themselves in a prison in this first issue,
because there's little bits and pieces
they detect of Molecule Man therein.
Plus it's got Yondu, who's just being
a kind of a jerk, a bounty hunter,
but helping out for a price.
Really cool stuff.
Great little bit at the end with a new villain that's
going to show up in this book.
Very exciting.
We have some big blockbuster number ones this week.
But we also have some things that may be a little bit bigger
than number one.
And that's House of X number two.
I recently saw Chip Zdarsky talking about this issue
online.
And he was saying--
he was cursing Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz for how--
I don't know. He doesn't know.
Nobody knows.
They somehow ramped up all the action,
all the incredible inventiveness going on in House of X number
one here in House of X number two.
It is really, really incredible.
It's groundbreaking stuff, landmark stuff.
The reaction to House of X number one
and Powers of X number one have been so exciting to see,
because people finally seeing how
big a deal this all really is.
And it all continues here in House of X number two.
I could not be more excited about what's going on here.
There is a very, very big and bright future
for the mighty mutants here at the House of Ideas this year
and beyond.
And it's all going down right here.
You gotta read it.
Well done on not giving any details on that book.
Thank you!
All right, our last book to talk about this week
is a true big-time blockbuster.
It's Absolute Carnage number one.
It is here.
It is exciting.
It is big.
And it is horrifying.
You know, we've been building up to this for a while
in the pages of Venom.
But if you've not been reading Venom,
you're missing out on great comics.
But don't worry.
You can dive right into the story
with this first issue, which is essentially,
like, three comics long.
It is a massive, massive tome.
And it's got Venom trying to stop
Carnage from bringing Null--
Null is the god of the symbiotes.
And he's trying to bring Null to earth,
wake him up, just cause all kinds of chaos and horror.
And it's all up to Venom, who is pretty much the only one
who knows how to stop him--
thinks he knows.
And who does enlist with him?
Spider-Man.
Gorgeous, amazing art.
It somehow actually is, at the same time,
big and poppy and superhero and exciting while being
dark, and gory, and violent, and nightmarish.
Just amazing work by Ryan Stegman, JP
Mayer, Frank Martin, the team.
And of course, Danny's, like, weird,
wild story culminates in this issue in Ravencroft Asylum.
And oh, boy.
It's just giving me chills thinking about the situation
there.
And I'm not going to spoil any more of it.
You know you want to read Absolute Carnage.
Going to have to go pick it up right now.
Now there are so many more books out this week.
We're going to tell you all about him
on Marvel's "The Pull List," the audio version.
Check that out wherever you get your podcasts.
And then we'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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