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Hello, Marvel-ites.
You're watching Marvel's "The Pull List."
And I'm Ryan Penagoes, AKA Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week, we read every single Marvel
comic that comes out.
We pick a couple of them, we pick a topic,
and we tell you why we're so hyped, because we
want you to read them.
Tucker, what are we talking about?
This week we're talking about some
captivating and cavorting crews.
Oh, I like that.
That's four different teams in four different books,
some that we know very well, and others that we're just getting
to know for the first time.
Like Strikeforce in STRIKEFORCE # 1.
This is such a fun collection of heroes.
We have Blade, we have Angela, we have Spider-Woman,
we have Hellstrom.
We have a bunch of great heroes that could be heroes sometimes,
but also maybe anti-heroes.
Their mission here is so unique, and so different.
Essentially, they do the things that the Avengers won't do--
which is such an exciting idea for a book.
RYAN PENAGOS: Yeah.
TUCKER MARKUS: And we really dive
into it from the beginning.
To see Tini Howard, who is the writer of this series,
take advantage of those characters--
dive into what they're all about, really kind
of the darker side of things here-- it's so much fun.
RYAN PENAGOS: Yeah, it had some of the creepiest stuff that,
like, freaks me out in stories.
TUCKER MARKUS: Yeah. RYAN PENAGOS: It's really cool.
But you know, talking about the Avengers,
we've got an Avengers book out this week.
AVENGERS # 24.
Jason Aaron, Stefano Caselli, and crew have really two
stories going on in this issue.
One of them is about the Avengers facing
off against Cosmic Ghost Rider.
If you don't know, Cosmic Ghost Rider
is Frank Castle with the Spirit of Vengeance and the Power
Cosmic, having traveled basically billions of years
through time.
He is here, and he's a little off.
And he fights the Avengers.
At one point he gets impaled on something,
and it is still wild how he fights.
So that's going on on one side.
And then on the other, you are down in Hell with Robbie Reyes
as current Ghost Rider racing for all
the marbles in the challenge of the Ghost Riders.
Racing Johnny Blaze in Hell.
It is really cool.
Now, there's a giant thing that I don't want
to spoil that happens in Hell.
It's a really cool story.
Yeah.
So we have three crews--
that's C-R-E-W-S-- and then we have one K-R-E-W-S. This
is PUNISHER: KILL KREW # 3.
Man, it's-- it's so excellent.
This is happening in the aftermath of War of the Realms,
where a bunch of different aliens and creatures
came to Earth, did a bunch of bad stuff,
including frost giants, and so Frank is getting
some vengeance on those dudes.
He teams up in this issue with Juggernaut.
What a combination.
It's one of those things that you never
knew you wanted until it happens,
and then you just want more, and more, and more.
It's so much fun to see how Gerry Duggan writes it,
but to see how Juan Ferreyra puts it together
on the art side is so amazing.
It has such texture, and you feel
like you could reach into the page and and feel everything.
And that includes barf.
Oh, yeah.
Best barf scene of 2019.
All right, last book of the week for us to talk about is
NEW MUTANTS: WAR CHILDREN # 1.
Wowie-zowie.
What an issue, what a book.
This brings back Chris Claremont with Bill Sienkiewicz.
Iconic duo who worked on NEW MUTANTS for a ton of issues
back in the '80s.
So if you are a NEW MUTANTS fan of old,
this is the perfect issue to read.
If you have never read that run of NEW MUTANTS,
this is a perfect issue to read.
It is, like, kind of almost a NEW MUTANTS greatest hits.
Gives you the sense of what that team was like,
the dynamics as these young kids--
they were basically the next generation of students
for Charles Xavier--
what they went through, how they worked together, their powers.
It gets really trippy and weird because BIll
Sienkiewicz's art is beautiful and so,
like, challenging and cool.
And makes you, like, really pay attention
to everything that's going on.
And it throws lots of little details, and lots of fun twists
and turns.
It's great.
It just-- just read the dang book.
Along with all the other books that came out this week, which
we're going to talk about on Marvel's "The Pull List,"
the podcast version, which you can get
wherever you get your audio.
We'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
This is Marvel.
Your universe.