Hello Marvellites! You are watching
Marvel's Pull List and I'm Ryan, aka Agent M
And I'm Tucker Marcus and every
week we read all the new Marvel comics
that come out. We pick a couple we pick a
topic we tell you why we're so hyped
about Tucker what are we talking about
this week today we're celebrating
Halloween with some black magic in these
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yes we have a few books that are
focusing on magical stuff we have a few
books that are focusing some horror
stuff and we're starting with Avengers
Halloween special number one this issue
it collects five short stories that
focus in on different kinds of horror
different genres different heroes my
favorite focuses in on daredevil in a
really twisted messed-up way because we
kind of blur the line between what's
real what's not real we're seeing
everything through his point of view but
to some very dark and maybe deadly ends
there's some cool body horror stuff here
some sort of isolationist carpenter
esque things happening with Captain
America that's a really neat story
there's a great excellent ghost story
it's just really cool all around
Punisher story like set in Paris in the
1800s it's neat stuff and and really
like gives you a bunch of different
things to dig your teeth into for
Halloween but we also have another
anthology out this week vault of spiders
number one and this one is super cool as
part of spoiler coded and it features
four stores plus an overarching sort of
narration saying hey we're gonna check
out some spiders from other universes
we're get to see some really cool stuff
a cowboy spider-man who puts a
spider-man mask on his horse
there is a cool savage spider-man which
other was really neat like getting
infected by these giant and Harley
spiders there's a cool spider bite
character a brand new character but
maybe probably definitely my favorite
Marvel story this year is in this it's
eight pages of glory featuring super
high demand the Japanese spider-man
and his giant robot leopard on it is
based on the TV show from that ran in
Japan and the 70s and this story
actually does such a great job of
encapsulating what makes the show so
weird and cool it's black and white like
the splash page the first time you see
the story it feels like a poster sized
image of Japanese spider-man and they
need to go to planets spider and you get
to see all the special weapons professor
monster who is spider-man's
main foe obviously they're fighting it's
the best yeah it is so much fun but
moving from the horror anthology books
now into the magic with what if magic
number one and this book asks the
question what if magic became the
sorcerer supreme
I really really dug this issue because
we take magic Illyana Rasputin who has a
really dark past and we see what it's
like if she had a mentor uh in Doctor
Strange she kind of moves into the
sanctum sanctorum and hangs out with
long and Steven strange we see her
become his protege in a lot of ways we
see him teach her how to become a
sorcerer bream they travel to the astral
plane and while she is a bit rebellious
there is a really great relationship
that starts to brew here yeah it's
almost like she's got two new dads one
of those dr. strange
one of them's wrong high jinks ensue
there's demons and just like working
through so much stuff there's a
beautiful double page spread in the book
of like a montage of them training and
it's it is gorgeous it's really really
neat okay so you talked about the magic
but the black part comes with x-men
black Emma Frost number one this is the
final of the five x-men black one shots
that we've been doing all featuring
villainous slash antagonist characters
and Emma Frost has definitely been a
villain and an antagonist but also a
member of the x-men and like her deal is
that she is ultimately trying to help
people whether it's students mutants you
know various people who are a little bit
like have some stuff happened to them
but ultimately through her
methods and to her own ends it's so good
it cuts to the core of exactly who Emma
Frost is why she's so dangerous and why
is she so awesome in the back of each of
the x-men black issues we've been seeing
a backup story by Zack Thompson and
Lonnie Nadler the writers called
apocalypse and degeneration and this
issue sees the conclusion of it of that
story which has been so much fun to read
because we see this villain we see
apocalypse kind of over the course of
these stories broken down to his most
core elements and then built back up and
for me worth the price of admission
alone heck yeah
alright so these are four books there's
so many out this week you're gonna have
to check out Marvel's pull list on
marble comm or wherever you get your
podcast to hear about all of them until
next week I'm Ryan and I'm Tucker this
is Marvel your universe
