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Hello, Marvelites!
You're watching Marvel's Pull List.
And I'm Ryan Penagos, a.k.a.
Agent M.
And I'm Tucker Markus.
And every week we talk about comics here,
whether they're some of my favorites
that I have behind me in my bedroom or some classics.
Tucker, what are we talking about this week?
This week we are talking about some classics.
We are going back to Marvel Two-in-One.
The incredible series that launched in the 1970s,
to spotlight a couple of excellent issues,
led by some of the most legendary creators
ever to grace The House of Ideas.
And the first one is Marvel Two-in-One number 50.
This is an issue centered around The Thing.
And it is written and penciled by the incredible John Byrne.
Essentially what goes down here is that Ben Grimm,
he's got the-- the emotion, the ennui.
He has feelings about--
You had to put ennui in this episode, didn't you?
Didn't you?
You know-- you know-- you know I had to, OK?
Essentially what The Thing does is
he tries to go back in time to his younger self, his self
in the past, to give him a serum so that he can cure the way
that he looks, his skin, his craggy, rocky skin,
in the future.
What goes down is not exactly a successful plan in the way
that he thought it might be.
But nonetheless it is an absolutely beautiful,
super fun, super action-packed issue, where The Thing
throws down with The Thing.
To see John Byrne's writing, which is so snappy, so smart,
and, of course, his art, which really speaks for itself,
it's some of the best stuff ever.
And I don't say that lightly.
The action scenes are incredible.
The emotion is incredible.
It's all there.
And it's all in Marvel Two-in-One number 50.
Yeah.
And he uses Doctor Doom's time platform.
And of the list of many things about Doctor Doom I wish
I had in common with, one of them
would be the time platform to go back in time,
tell my younger self, just let your hair grow.
It's beautiful.
It's Colombian.
It is who you are.
We're not here to talk about my hair.
My next issue is actually the issue right
afterwards because they're bangers,
the tail end of the 1970s I've got
Marvel Two-in-One number 51.
And while last issue was John Byrne,
the penciler for number 51 is a young man
by the name of Frank Miller.
And this is really fascinating because this is only
Frank Miller's fifth Marvel comic
that he drew at this point, only his 10th comic
that he's done at all at this point.
And right before this, he starts on a little character
by the name of Daredevil.
But right now, it's him getting involved in a poker game.
It's Nick Fury and Ben Grimm's, like, semi-regular poker
game, which is just the coolest part of the Marvel universe.
You want to be a part--
The cool list.
Right?
Like, it's-- it's a party.
They're hanging out.
They're having fun.
This one is, like, you know, you see some of their friends
couldn't make it, so they bring in new people.
All the while, they're dealing.
They're having fun.
Then they got to go beat up some bad guys.
It's really snappy, like you mentioned with the Byrne issue.
This one moves quickly.
It's got great action.
And you can see, even at this early part of Frank
Miller's career, he's got it.
There's a double page spread in here
that you'll look at probably for an hour,
just, like, trying to see the little details,
look at the action, how it's staged.
It's beautiful.
But it's also funny and cool and really
gives you a sense of being part of the Marvel Universe, which
is all we ever really want.
That's right.
And hey, these issues of Marvel Two-in-One, that's issues
number 50 and 51, they're available to read
on Marvel Unlimited right now.
So go get on it.
But that's not all we have this week.
We have some classics, like we said.
But members of the Merry Marvel Marching Society
rejoice, because we also have brand-new comics
coming your way digitally.
RYAN PENAGOS: That's right, Tucker.
I'm so excited that we have brand-new Marvel comics
hitting digitally this week.
We've got Ant-Man number 4 and Avengers
of the Wasteland number 4, both of which I absolutely love.
And then kind of gets you right in the heart.
And then Avenger of the Wasteland
has one of the most gruesome, grizzly wild
battles you're going to see in any Marvel comic
for a long time.
And then on top of that, we have brand-new issues
of Ghost Spider and Ravencroft.
Ghost Spider, of course, jumping alongside Gwen Stacy, which
is a beautiful issue, even given the standard that this book
has set for itself.
This was a standout for me, absolutely gorgeous.
And we also have Ravencroft, which
is another one of those absolutely
pitch-perfect stories.
It's written by Frank Tieri, so you
know it's going to bring the delights and the deliciousness,
all of that good/bad stuff that we just love.
And it's all coming out this week.
I want to see a reaction by Frank
Tieri when he hears you refer to his writing as delicious.
I would just want that on the next episode
of Marvel's Pull List.
But don't worry, we're gonna have more episodes.
We're gonna have a new audio episode for you,
which you can get wherever you get
your audio and your podcasts.
And then we'll be back here with another video real soon.
I'm Ryan.
And I'm Tucker.
And this is Marvel, your universe.
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