RYAN PENAGOS: Hello, Marvelites.
You're watching Marvel's Pull List.
And I'm Ryan Penagos, aka Agent M.
TUCKER MARKUS: 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 you gotta check these books out.
Tucker, what are we talking about this week?
Gigantic journeys, terrific travel's,
astonishing adventures.
I like it.
We're visiting a ton of different exciting settings
this week across the cosmos, across the mighty
Marvel multiverse, and we're starting
with "Ruins of Ravencroft--
Dracula," number one.
Of course, we visit the Ravencroft
Institute for the criminally insane in this issue.
But we also visit the past of the Institute, which
is really, really, really cool.
I love the delicious darkness that we get to dive into here.
But my favorite element of it is seeing Dracula go up
against Captain America, two characters
that I do not automatically associate with each other.
But to see their various like powers juxtaposed
against each other, to see it all
happening, like especially in a classic costume setting
is so fun.
I love the mythology of this place.
I love continuing to dive into that, to build that.
It's really fun.
Yeah, I do want to bring you to another location.
That would be not quite Atlantis,
but the portal city of Pan within the pages of Atlantis
attacks number one.
The city is really cool.
It's got big technology.
It allows for different slices of other Asian cities
to be put together.
And so you can like walk around a neighborhood,
and it's dozens of neighborhoods and different countries.
You can travel what is essentially around the world
very, very quickly.
And it's really cool, but it is powered by something that
has irked, I shall say, nay more the submariner,
the King of Atlantis, the greatest Marvel Super Hero,
maybe question mark.
He's the best.
And look, if you have no other reason to read this,
it's going to be Namor.
But believe me, this book is going to be a lot of fun.
It's got a lot of action, a lot of adventure,
some cool surprises at the end.
I love it.
Our next book this week is "Excalibur" number six.
We have a couple cool places to visit here, including Avalon.
We really get to dig into a kind of fantasy genre there,
and this issue is a big bombastic blow
'em up throw down.
There is so much team action in here.
It's brought to life beautifully by Marcus To on art,
but my favorite setting of the entire week is in this book.
And it is a jacuzzi.
Oh.
TUCKER MARKUS: Where we see a really, really wonderful
scene between Rogue and Gambit.
It serves this amazing break from the action.
There is just so much to enjoy about this issue
across the board.
Love every single one that comes out.
Can't wait for the next.
Yeah, all right, where would we be
if we weren't going to space?
And we're doing that with "Guardians
of the Galaxy," number one, and it's got a new look
for the gods of Olympus.
They have been reborn.
We killed them off, like a year and a half ago.
So Zeus and his whole pantheon, destroyed.
They are now reborn, and they are pissed off.
Holy cow.
It is awesome to see.
The scope of their anger and fury is wild.
And it's going to take the Guardians of the Galaxy
to step up, come together, and stop them.
And this is a different Guardians of the Galaxy
than we've seen.
They are very much like a family at this point.
They've come together in new ways.
They've been through so much.
It's really neat to see.
They are joined by Nova, which is really, really interesting.
And he has a huge journey in and of himself.
You've got Marvel boy in there.
You've got a whole bunch of other characters.
They're going to be in for the fight of their lives
in this storyline.
I can't wait to see more, and that's
just one of the many books out this week.
The rest of them, we'll tell you all about them
on Marvel's Pull List, the podcast version.
Get it wherever you get your audio,
and we'll be back with another episode next week.
I'm Ryan. - And I'm Tucker.
This is Marvel.
Your universe.