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Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's Pull List.
And I'm Ryan, a.k.a. Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week, we read every single new Marvel
comic that comes out.
Then we pick a couple of them.
We pick a topic.
We tell you about them on this show.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
We're talking about books we're thankful for.
Aw.
Come on.
I'm thankful for all the comics.
That's right.
But we've picked four special, especially beloved issues
that we love for a bunch of different reasons.
And I'm starting with one that I really love.
This is X-FORCE # 2.
As series writer Benjamin Percy put it, "This book is poison."
That's a really good Benjamin Percy impression.
Thanks.
And I completely agree in all the best ways.
It is savage.
It kind of captures this epic tone that never stops
throughout the entire story.
We're dealing with the aftermath of something really huge.
And I kind of don't want to say it
out loud still, if only partially because I like
hope it's not true.
But it's really really amazing to see the worldbuilding
that's going on around this.
And, look, X-Force is the team that deals with it
in a really, really big way.
And it is just a delight to read.
I love it so much. - Heck yeah.
Yeah.
All right, a book I am thankful for
and I love very much is VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER.
This is issue number five.
And it says on the cover, like, "One of these Super Heroes
will die," ah.
And it's cool.
That's one of the really fun aspects of the series where
Jane Foster can use her Valkyrie vision
and see like how close someone is to death.
So in this issue, she is trying to save
Doctor Strange from death.
And death comes in the form of the Grim Reaper
who is doing some nasty stuff.
So you get this cool Valkyrie, Grim Reaper fight.
Great, great, great.
But most importantly, you get Mr. Horse
being the best character in Marvel Comics 2019.
I'm just laying it out there.
He is my favorite.
He's a talking horse.
He gets into it with another talking flying horse
as well as a robotic horse.
Amazing, beautiful book.
And another one that I am thankful for
is FANTASTIC FOUR: GRAND DESIGN.
This is issue number two.
The Grand Design series, this comes off the back of X-MEN:
GRAND DESIGN.
And it's kind of succinct, kind of all-in-one story
that tells the history of these various teams.
And this one, of course, is about the first family.
And it's all brought to you by Tom Scioli.
He writes it.
He pencils it, inks it, colors it, all
in this glorious retro style.
Almost every page is around 20 panels.
RYAN PENAGOS: Wild.
TUCKER MARKUS: It's ridiculous.
And we go throughout so much of Fantastic Four history.
It's amazing.
It's relentless.
Really, like this is the kind of book that needs
to be taught like in a class.
It is amazing.
But it is also so wildly entertaining.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So good.
Also, wildly entertaining, VENOM.
This is issue number 20.
And you're like, hey, that says this
is an ABSOLUTE CARNAGE tie-in issue,
but didn't that end already?
Wasn't the last issue of ABSOLUTE
CARNAGE-- yes, that's true.
This is really looking at the aftermath, the repercussions
of the events of ABSOLUTE CARNAGE,
particularly in two places.
One is Eddie and Dylan.
Now we're really getting into the familial stuff
between the two of them.
It is wonderful stuff.
There's a hug in this issue, which
is one of my favorite hugs in comics this year.
You're going to know it when you see it.
And then on the other side, a more
sinister path that we're going on,
is following the Maker, a.k.a.
Ultimate Reed Richards.
And his part of the book sort of opens up like a flower.
As you go along, like, it just becomes more and more and more.
By the end, you're like wafting in that sweet, sweet pollen.
And you're like, oh god, what's happening?
TUCKER MARKUS: Yeah.
It is incredible.
I think you guys are going to really dig it.
Now there's plenty of comics out this week,
which we think you will dig.
You're going to have to find out about them on Marvel's
Pull List, the podcast version.
Get it wherever you get your audio.
And then we'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel--
--your universe.
Thank you for that.
Thanks.
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