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Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's The Pull List,
and I'm Ryan Penagos, AKA Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week we read every single Marvel
comic that comes out.
We get really excited about a bunch of them.
We pick a topic, we pick a couple of them,
and we want you to get hyped, so that's why we're here.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
Today we're talking about cinematic storytelling.
Obviously that has a lot of permutations that means
a lot of different things.
But we're starting in the perfect place
with the modern master of mystery himself,
that's JJ Abrams and his son Henry Abrams,
it's Spider-Man number one.
A book 15 years in the making.
RYAN PENAGOS: Truly.
Read a letter by Spider-Man editor, Nick Lowe,
for more on that story in here.
It's really cool.
The fresh perspective on this character
that we know and love so much.
This world was so new, it was so fascinating.
I really can't say anything about what
goes down in this issue.
But you aren't ready for it.
In addition, as if we needed another amazing reminder
of the skill and historical legacy
and amazingness of Sara Pichelli,
who just crushes the issue.
It's so gorgeous.
There's so much emotion.
There's so much realism to it all.
You don't want to miss this comic.
It's really, really good.
RYAN PENAGOS: I was really delighted to not
know what the story was and get flabbergasted by it.
It was great.
Another great story and also very cinematic
is Guardians of the Galaxy number nine.
So we wanted to talk about this issue
because there's a bunch of, like, dun-dun-dun moments,
where you feel like the music swells, big things happen.
You also have great moments.
Like, there's a bit in here where
Peter Quill is running around.
He's like trying to escape from the bad guys.
And he turns the corner and, boom,
he's faced to face with Cosmo, a telepathic Russian space dog.
And there's a wonderful exchange there.
It is so funny, so cool.
And then you get to a couple of beats
right at the end, which I will not spoil,
but it's like dun-dun, dun-dun.
And you could feel, like, the tension growing.
Everything is building, and building, and building.
And it's very exciting.
TUCKER MARKUS: Yeah.
Speaking of, like, endings out of nowhere
that just blow your mind, this is Dead Man Logan number 11.
The 12 issue limited series is coming to a close.
We're at the penultimate issue here.
And the drama is there to match it in this issue.
The way that certain panels are framed,
it's just these amazing wide shots of the wasteland.
So much action going on in there.
And Nolan Woodard's colors on top of if all.
The way it's kind of this amazing, like, anemic sepia
toned.
Of course, Ed Brisson's writing on top of it all.
I love the supporting cast in this book, just as
much as I love old man Logan.
And I really, really, really love old man Logan.
It's all coming to a close here.
And the way, like I said, that it wraps up
is going to blow your mind.
It's so excellent.
Our last book to talk about this week
is Valkyrie Jane Foster issue number 3.
There's like a spoiler that happened in the previous issue.
I don't really want to talk about, but it's, like, can
I talk about the issue without--
all right, I'm going to try.
This one is really cool because it is a journey
for Valkyrie and her charge.
She is to shepherd the dead to the next realm.
And usually that will be Valhalla,
but the person who dies-- see, I'm skirting around it--
the person who died has seen everything,
and they want to go past that.
They want to see what's beyond.
We go through heaven, we go through a version of a hell,
which is gnarly and cool, and ties
into all kinds of other stuff.
But the end, Fraser Irving does something
that makes you feel like you are transported
into a massive theater.
It is so haunting and it is moving.
And it's really, really beautiful stuff.
I hope you check this issue out.
I hope you check every issue out.
All of which, we talk about on Marvel's The Pull
List the podcast version, which you can get
wherever you get your audio.
And then we'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - I'm Tucker.
This is Marvel.
Your universe.
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