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Hello Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's The Pull List.
And I'm Ryan, a.k.a.
Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week, we read all the new Marvel comics
that come out.
And then we pick a couple of them.
We pick a topic.
And we tell you why we're so hyped.
Tucker, what's going on this week?
This week it's you--
you-- huge debuts.
Huge debuts. - Huge!
Yeah, that's right.
And we have picked four issues where we talk about some really
big new things coming to the Marvel universe,
really exciting stuff.
We're starting with maybe the biggest issue of the year,
I don't know, it's possible.
This is HOUSE OF X # 1.
When Ryan and I saw each other for the first time today,
we just said, whoa, wow, it surpassed all the hype.
It is incredible.
Basically, this truly is the next big era of the X-Men.
You can feel it on every single page.
There is some incredible graphic design happening here
that's woven into the story in a really unexpected gorgeous way.
It just all feels monumental.
It all feels exactly what it is, which
is just a threshold moment for, you know,
this group of characters.
It's all incredible.
I cannot say enough about it.
But unfortunately, I can't say any of it right here.
Can't say anything.
We can't talk about the story, the plot
because we want you guys to go in fresh.
Just know, they nailed it.
They crushed it.
They came in.
They swung big, [WHEW],, 14 grand slams in one hit.
That's how you do it.
Baseball.
Oh, yeah.
So that is HOUSE OF X. But then another
one of my favorite books is HISTORY
OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE # 1.
This is a huge one.
So it's a really cool idea.
Goes back to the beginnings of time with Galacatus.
Because Galactus came from the universe before ours.
The big bang sort of he [SHH] went right through.
Turned in from what he was, which
is basically a dude, a science dude, came through,
became something more.
He eventually turned into Galactus.
Starting with the big bang and going from there
and learning about the entire cosmos, the infinity stones,
all magic, the gods, the cosmic abstracts,
every bit and piece of it.
And then you do that with Mark Waid's incredible knowledge
of the Marvel universe and Javier Rodriguez's and Alvaro
Lopez's just mind-bending art.
Beautiful design work in the way that they
level different panels and tell the story
of all these characters, all these worlds, all
these mythologies.
It is just absolutely breathtaking.
On top of all that, after that, after you read the story,
and it ends at a certain point-- we're going to continue
that in the next issue--
you get annotations to tell you where everything
came from, all the references.
And then you can go back and read the original comics.
It is perfection.
Totally.
So going from the incredible depth and history of the Marvel
universe to some new history being forged right now,
this is SWORD MASTER # 1.
Obviously, we've gotten to know Sword Master a little bit
with THE NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS and their WAR OF THE REALMS tie-in
series, which was a delight.
But in SWORD MASTER # 1, we get to zoom in on this character
and how, essentially, he got his powers, what his whole deal is.
And it is fascinating.
We have a couple of stories in here
that dig into this character in new ways.
One that examines his entire story, his relationship
with his father, which is really important,
the magical elements that come into play because of the sword.
It is so cool.
There's great kaiju action.
There's so much movement and just so much
dynamism throughout it all.
And then we have this other story
written by Greg Pak that is just incredible in its own right.
Because it's team-up with Mr. Shang-Chi.
Everybody is talking about Shang-Chi for some reason.
Come on.
He's great.
Yeah, Mr. Shang-Chi, the master of Kung Fu,
there is so much special stuff happening with this team.
You got to pick up SWORD MASTER # 1 because it, in its
own right, is so special.
It's great.
Speaking of special.
Last book for us to talk about is VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER # 1.
Oh boy.
So this spins out of WAR OF THE REALMS.
You know, we had WAR OF THE REALMS:
OMEGA recently, which really set the stage for this storyline.
But if you missed that, don't worry.
Everything is in this issue.
It follows Jane Foster as she is the lone Valkyrie left
to assure the worthy dead into the gates of Valhalla,
as it were.
It's a really fascinating take on what this means for Jane.
And so it's her.
She's got a cool new weapon, an amazing costume.
You find her in life, what she's doing,
her career, and how like she's trying
to hold on to that bit of humanity,
while still at the same time, having
almost god-level powers, which she's already had god
level powers when she was Thor.
So there's all kinds of stuff swirling
around, beautiful, beautiful moments with a variety
of Asgardians in here.
It is a wonderful ride and a great start to a huge series.
Now there's so much more for us to talk
about, which we do on Marvel's The Pull List,
the audio version.
Get that wherever you get your audio.
We'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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