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Hello, Marvelites.
You are watching Marvel's The Pull List,
and I'm Ryan, AKA Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week we're going to read every single Marvel
comic that comes out, and pick a couple of them,
and we pick a topic to tell you why we're so hyped.
Tucker, what are we talking about this week?
This week, time runs out.
We're kind of going through some threshold moments in a bunch
of issues this week, and we've selected four
for a few different reasons.
We'll dive into it right, now with FANTASTIC FOUR # 12.
This one, we are literally up against the clock.
We are following Mr. Benjamin J Grimm on his honeymoon.
Aw.
Oh, that's fun.
He's out there with Alicia, and that just so
happens to line up with the one day a year
where he morphs from the Thing back into Ben Grimm,
with no powers.
He's just a normal dude.
And right when that happens, guess who shows up?
The Immortal Hulk.
It's Thing versus Hulk.
That's classic Marvel goodness right there.
Ryan, you were saying that Dan Slott
has been talking about this issue for years,
and rightfully so.
It does not disappoint.
Great stuff all around.
Then we also have a backup story by Jeremy Whitley and Will
Robson, where we get to know the Future
Foundation a little bit better, ahead of their ongoing series.
Julie Power shows up, which is really exciting.
So much to love in the FF universe.
Just great stuff.
Heck yeah.
What's also great?
Death's Head number one.
Boy, oh, boy, I've been super ready for this series
to come out.
I'm a huge Death's Head fan, as much as one
can be for such a relatively obscure character-- at least
for, you know, Marvel comics readers in the US.
But Death's Head is such a fascinating character,
transversing realities.
One of the greatest designs, I think, in, you know,
Marvel Comics.
He's, like, a robot bounty hunter,
and so now he's got his own series.
But if you don't know who Death's Head is and you're
still, like, on the fence after I told you all this cool stuff
about him, how about if I tell you Wiccan
and Hulkling are in this book?
Tini Howard coming in.
It's so funny.
Her dialogue is always great.
The scenario is big action, all that stuff.
Kei Zama coming in, doing a kind of manga
meets cyberpunk meets superheroes vibe to the art.
I absolutely loved it.
There's a big mystery right at the end of the book.
I can't wait for more.
I love Death's Head, so this is perfect.
Moving on to CONAN THE BARBARIAN # 8.
This is a wild one because we have Conan--
he's got all the best intentions.
He's heading home, back to hometown, to see his grandma
and a bunch of people he grew up with,
people that he loves, just to kind of talk about his travels,
and things like that.
But things don't work out that way
because what he comes across are, like, a bunch of cultish,
undead, scary, mystical versions of everything
he thought he once knew, and he has to go up against it all.
Great stuff, as always, in CONAN, led
by Mr. Gerardo Zaffino on art.
And it is gorgeous.
Yeah.
All right, so you're like, OK, Mr. Mustache, you're wearing
an X-Men t-shirt.
POWERS OF X came out this week.
Where's my X-Men?
POWERS OF X!
We're going to talk about it.
Of course we're going to talk about it.
Now, if you read HOUSE OF X # 1 last week, you're like,
wow, this is incredible.
What's next?
POWERS OF X is next.
The fun thing is each week you'll get a new issue of HOUSE
OF X, and then the next week, the new issue of POWERS OF X,
back and forth, as they go through all six
issues of each series.
And there's parts of HOUSE OF X that dive
right into POWERS OF X # 1.
You can read them separately.
I would say give us all your money, read both books,
and enjoy the great storytelling that Jonathan Hickman, RB
Silva, Marte Garcia, and the team are doing on POWERS OF X.
I will say that, you know, we've seen some characters
with really cool designs.
There's a guy who's red, looks kind of like Nightcrawler.
There's a woman who has a big sword that
looks like Magik's, and she has metal that
looks like Colossus' steel.
You'll find out a lot about them in this issue,
and see what they're all about.
And plenty more.
You're going to want to read this, and keep going.
Make sure you check these out.
They're so good.
We're going to tell you so much more about all the
Marvel comics out this week.
I will still tell you nothing about POWERS OF X
when you listen to the podcast version
of Marvel's "The Pull List."
Get it wherever you get your audio,
and we'll be back with another episode of this video show,
and the audio show, next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
And this is is Marvel.
Your universe.