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Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's Pull List.
And I'm Ryan, AKA Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week, we read every single Marvel
comics that comes out.
We pick a bunch of them.
And we pick a topic.
We tell you all about them.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
This week is the start of a new month.
So we're also talking about new number 1s
some really exciting stuff happening
across the House of Ideas.
And we're going first, to a galaxy far, far away with Star
Wars Darth Vader Number 1.
I've been looking forward to this for a very long time,
because of course, we are jumping into a new era of Star
Wars here at the House of Ideas in the aftermath of the events
of the Empire Strikes Back.
In this issue, we get to see how Darth Vader
is reeling after the events.
It's a really fascinating story as Greg Pak tells it,
because that whole thing where Vader calls out to Luke, offers
to rule the universe with him, and Luke says, no,
chooses instead to seemingly fall to his death, that
dredges up a lot of dark memories for Anakin
Skywalker and Darth Vader.
We get to dig into all of that by going
to the Sands of Tatooine.
And as that happens, we flashback to the events
of Phantom Menace.
We flashback to events of Attack of the Clones.
There is so much built in here.
Somehow, Greg Pak turns one of history's greatest villains
in to this really complicated character
that you just empathize with in a very natural way.
So much to love here, and I can't wait for more.
And there's a great droid introduced in this issue.
Unfortunately, there's no droid in Ant-Man Number 1.
Man, what a hoot this book is.
It's like, that's what it is.
It's a romp.
It's fun.
It's exciting.
You have this sort of team up book
here, because it's Ant-Man with Stinger.
His daughter, Cassie, has taken on a new Super Hero moniker.
And she's joining him on some adventures.
You've got Scott Lang, hanging out, talking to ants,
talking to bees.
It's really fun the ways we see Zeb Wells write that dialogue
of the conversation, as it were, between a human
with this technology and a different insect,
and what that means, and how they communicate.
I love that aspect of it.
It's really fun.
Of course, Dylan Burnett just does such great scale.
You see them grow ginormous or shrink down real low.
It's wonderful.
If you are a fan of Ant-Man in any form of media,
you're going to love this comic.
Totally.
That takes us to X-Men/ Fantastic Four Number 1.
This deals with the ramifications
of everything that's been going on in the Marvel Universe
recently.
And of course, that has so much to do with the new status
quo for mutantkind.
With them establishing themselves on Krakoa now,
they have a new base of operations.
They have a newfound life, literally.
So to see Franklin Richards, who is a mutant,
but is also a member of the family of the Fantastic Four--
he's the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm--
to see where that takes him is so, so fascinating,
because it's a complicated story.
He is excited by the idea of joining the mutants in all
that that means for him.
But he also has so much family loyalty to Johnny, and Ben,
and everyone there.
So at the same time, it can be this enormous, epic,
goosebump-inducing inducing Super Hero story and also
a really kind of personal small tale about this kid who has
this big decision ahead of him.
And he's wrestling with that.
It's really, really, really fascinating.
I love, especially, where this issue ends.
It made me jump out of my seat in excitement, such good stuff,
can't wait for more.
Yeah, look, I would go to Krakoa.
I don't know about you. - Yeah, no.
Whatever.
Deal with that, Franklin.
What, we've got one more this weekend.
It is Dark Agnes Number 1.
Dark Agnes is a character created by Robert E Howard.
I was blown away by this book.
It is so much fun.
It reminds me of a great, you know,
action adventure comedy with heart, kind of a little bit
like plussed up, a little bit more violent, a little bit more
rowdy in all the best ways.
You know, you have Becky Cloonan coming in
and writing a tale about a 16th century woman
who swings her sword around.
She gets into fights.
She drinks hard.
She rides horses.
She punches anybody who gets in her way.
She has a very specific point of view of things she wants to do.
Nobody's going to stop her.
She rules.
And then you have Luke Pizzari coming in and just
drawing the heck out of it, like the smirk on Agnes' face,
or the anger, all those emotions coming forth in the best
acting we see in comics.
It's a really great comic book.
I hope you guys check it out.
But there are so many comics coming out this week.
And we're going to tell you all about them
on Marvel's Pull List, the Podcast Version.
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We'll be back with another episode here next week.
Until then, I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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