Hello, Marvelites, you're watching a very special bonus
episode of Marvel's Pull List.
I'm Ryan, a.k.a.
AgentM.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And so normally we pick a couple of new comics
that have come out that week.
We tell you why you've got to check them out.
But since it's the end of the year
and everybody's making their fancy lists, and telling you,
"Oh, those are the best that, and this is the best this,"
well, no, we're saying these are our favorite Marvel
Comics of 2019.
How's that sound?
It sounds pretty good to me.
I have two picks.
You have two picks.
Our favorite comics of 2019, I'm starting with HOUSE
OF X and POWERS OF X, this new beginning,
positioning the mutants in a new way
on Earth and the Marvel universe,
and at times in Marvel history redefining things.
I don't think anyone could have ever guessed what Jonathan
Hickman and company did here.
He teamed up with Pepe Larraz on HOUSE OF X and RB Silva
on POWERS OF X to tell this story
that spans years and years and years and years and years.
RYAN PENAGOS: Millennia.
TUCKER MARKUS: Yes.
It is really unbelievable stuff.
One of my favorite moments in this
is seeing characters arrive on Krakoa for the first time
and witnessing that they have a safe haven,
that they have a home.
To see some of the characters we've
seen as villains traditionally in the past come to the table
and realize that.
And now everything that's going on in DAWN OF X,
across all of those books, and seeing
all the intricate webs that are being woven across the board.
It's a really big moment for the mutants.
And it's something that we'll be seeing the effects of for years
to come.
Yeah.
Another big moment this year for us, and one of my favorites
is WAR OF THE REALMS.
This was a huge story.
It's kind of the best interpretation
of a giant, cool, line-wide, action
adventure Marvel Comics event.
It's got a great creative team--
Jason Aaron, and Russell Dauterman,
and Matthew Wilson, and everybody else.
And it spans six issues plus an epilogue.
You've got great stories with Daredevil
and Thor and everyone else.
But I think my favorite moment--
a little spoiler-- comes at the final battle,
the final battle where Thor has sacrificed so much.
And he has to face one of the greatest evils he's ever faced.
He can't do it alone.
And there's this beautiful double-page splash
where he goes in with the people he needs the most.
And it's so dang cool.
But if you like big, big action adventure
wild rides with huge stakes, WAR OF THE REALMS is your book.
And talking about Jason Aaron, my other favorite comic
of the year was KING THOR.
That's Jason Aaron writing the character
and wrapping up an unbelievable landmark seven-year run
with the character.
He's the person that gave Jane Foster the hammer.
He's the person that has told so many
now legendary moments for the god of thunder,
for Loki, for everybody involved.
One of my favorite moments in this story,
again, comes at the end, because there's something about the way
that Jason Aaron wraps up a story
that is really, really special.
It's something that if you just picked up
KING THOR for the very first time
without having read anything before,
you could feel the weight of all of that here.
It's a really, really special book.
And look, a rare thing to see a writer tell a character's story
for that many years, and then wrap
it up in such a beautiful way.
I love KING THOR.
Beautiful book.
And it's also really cool looking at Marvel history past,
present, and future, just like HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE,
which because we're celebrating 80 years of Marvel this year,
this has been kind of the perfect book to tell us
everything that's happened from the Big Bang in the beginning
to the last moments of this universe.
And it started out by telling you, here's Galactus.
Here's Franklin Richards.
They are the last two beings alive at the end of time.
And Galactus is telling the history of the Marvel universe
to his friend, who he's been with for millions of years,
Franklin, because Franklin is going
to go on into the next universe, much like Galactus
came to ours.
That is the perfect way to then tell everything.
The Celestials, the Eternals, the Shi'ars, the Skrulls,
the X-Men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four,
all the families, all the teams, all the races, everything
is in this book.
If I had to pick one like perfect part of it
is right at the end of the last issue
where Galactus and Franklin have their final words
to each other.
And it's a beautiful double-page image.
And it just gets you.
Yeah
It gets you right here.
It is a perfect way to tell our 80 years of Marvel history
in comic book form.
I hope you guys check it out.
But there's so many other books that we loved this year.
And on Marvel's Pull List, the podcast version,
every week we talk about all of them.
Our final episode of the year, we actually crunched
the numbers, looked at all the data,
and figured out which creators we said, "You've
got to read this book," the most, which
titles came up again and again.
So check that out wherever you get your audio.
And then we'll be back with another video episode really
soon. I'm Ryan.
I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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