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[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the multi-verse podcast. This is Jason and I'm all alone today. I thought I would Come on. We haven't had a chance to get the whole crowd together and and go through a new episode. So what I thought might be fun is going through my pulls list and find what I want to add and what I want to drop. We've had some new series that have come on that are pretty exciting that I really enjoyed, and I need to make sure that those series are on my list and some series that I just I'm not into so much anymore than need to pull off. What I've done is I've logged into my subscription account on multi-verse dot shop. I'm taking a look at all of the different things that I subscribe to versus not now. Some things that I've pulled from my list are some series that have ended recently starting with captain America, symbol of truth, and captain America, Sentinel of Liberty. Now [00:01:00] these two. Captain America series just ended and I have pulled them from my list, of course, because, well, they're not coming out anymore. Another thing that's come off of my list. Oh, well, Let me say what, what came on in exchange was. The new J Michael captain America has been added to my list. So I went ahead and added J Michael Skis, just captain America number number one and so on. Because it is really good. First issue of that was really excellent. We talk about that in a previous episode. So check that out, but I've really enjoyed , that book. So that's been added to my list. While the captain America symbol of truth and SIM Sentinel of Liberty. Have both been pulled. , off of my list. So. That's done. That's gone. And then another one that is interesting. One of my favorite series. In the last couple of years has been a series by [00:02:00] Robert Kirkman called firepower. Now. Firepower is a really great kung-fu story and it's pretty fun. It's almost like a slightly better Iron fist. So I, I like this character a little bit more than Ryan pres. I know that will be sacrilege to many, many people. So don't Don't get too upset. The second issue of this thing was just so killer. It was a it was a silent issue where this this guy. Who's the main character and he's basically Martial artists that has the special power that he can shoot fireballs out of his hand.
He doesn't have to say the word, but they can do it right. Well, a bunch of ninjas show up at his house. Since he learned how to do all of this stuff. He has become like a normal dude that works , as a furniture maker. And a furniture sales guy , in a regular old town, working with his family. And he's got a daughter and a son. They have no idea that he's [00:03:00] like super ninja. So, these ninjas decide to attack, but. Yeah, ninjas are silent. And this guy sees what's happening and he's fighting them back silently. And it's this whole fight scene while trying not to wake up the kids. It's hilarious. It's so good. So well done. I love this book firepower. Here's the thing. It reads super fast. And I have this thing where a lot of times my comics will disappear from my box. Because the story is, if we are selling books, something gets pulled for me. And it's my shop. So I'd much rather sell somebody's customer book and miss it myself. I can always find a way to catch up. So, we do that a lot. , my books get pulled out of my box. And sold to someone else. So I ended up with these sort of spotty selections. And this particular book is such a fast read. That I had to pick up one of the trades to catch up on [00:04:00] on some of them. And I really enjoy the trade. I actually enjoy. The experience of the trade. So, what I've done is I started picking up the trades instead of the floppies on firepower. And I really like it quite a bit. So, That's one that's been dropped, but not dropped because I don't like it. In fact, it's one of my all time favorites. As soon as that comes in, I sit down and read it, sort of like benching a Netflix show. But I don't end up getting the floppies anymore at all. And I, I enjoy it quite a bit. Flashes one that's that is has a new number one out. I've read the new number one. And. I'm going to keep it on my list for now. We'll see, it's a very different take on flash. Flash has been like. Super fun and light. This is almost like. It's almost like immortal. Flash, like it's a, it's a little bit of a darker take. It's got almost like a hoary vibe to his weird It's certainly not take, I've seen on flash in the past. He's always been sort of a happy go lucky [00:05:00] guy. So. We'll see, it may be that these are like the greatest stories ever told, and we had no idea how great flash could be. I've always loved flash. I'll collect it for years. But it also might be that that this is a weird take that. I don't dig. So I'm going to still pick these up for a little while, but that was sort of on the watch list for me. I'm trying to figure out exactly. What's going on with it. I'd picked up Catwoman for a couple of issues. To go through the, the Gotham war storyline. I'm dropping that again. Really enjoyed Catwoman. And well, I I've enjoyed the Gotham war. It's, I've been a little hit or miss, honestly, with the current. Current Batman run, detective comics is a different story. I loved active that's on my pull list for short. Batman Ron I'm hit or miss, but it hits enough that I keep it on there. The other things that stay on the list. Action comics and Superman. Those are, those are excellent. I haven't read this new, [00:06:00] new sort of series and action. Superman. Super exciting right now. What's great about Superman is they've. Introduced this new character called the chain. That is fascinating to me. And I'm. I'm interested in seeing how that goes over a period of time. Action. Comics is starting to become sort of a, a family book with, with some multiple stories broken up. And they've wrapped up kind of one series. They're onto the next, and I'm interested to see where that goes ultimately. So, those two I'm keeping so Superman. He gets stick around both an action and Superman. Batman on keeping both Batman and detective. Those are staying flash I'm on the fence, but I'm holding onto it. Captain America. Picking up the new title, turning off the old one, the The other one that just had a new number one. That I'm going to add is wonder woman. I'm not sure what to think about. Wonder woman right now. I liked the last the, the new. [00:07:00] Series that came out. The number one that came out. I liked it well enough. I like where it's going. I like the ideas behind it and kind of the central figures and, and what they're trying to do. It was a, it's a longer read than I typically, like, I usually like a really fast read. So it was a little bit much for me. There was little chewy. So. We'll see where it goes. I'm going to give it two or three issues to see if it establishes some of the backstory. And then gets a little lighter or not. The other thing that I just caught up on , in DC. Is I finally just caught up on Nightwing and I'm up to the current issues now. I was a little slow on the train. I picked up the first the first issue of this current run. I think it might've been 78 in the current run. But it's just such a good book. It's so light and fun and happy. And I've really, really enjoyed it. Along the same lines, very similarly written. Is [00:08:00] Titans. So Titans has been really good. So I'm adding both Nightwing and Titans because I think they're excellent. I think it might Nightwing. Well, I don't know. Superman is my favorite Superman. I've read in a very long time. Nightwing might be outside of my favorite character. Who's Superman the best book in DC today. I just love it. Best ongoing for certain is probably Nightwing and Titans is carries on some of the same. Sort of light. Joyful. Kind of perspective that that's on there. It also reminds me of world's finest. World's finest is a book that it's the first book I pick up. And for the longest time, It was the best Batman or the best Superman you could read. Very classic mark. Wade writes it. Excellent. Excellent book. And I was reading that for the longest time. And I just found that when I would get my stack, world's finest. The thing I read first absolutely loved that book. Now to shift gears a little bit. There's a couple of other [00:09:00] books that, that have. Caught my fancy one is ultimate invasion. There's there's been a few issues of ultimate invasion. Jonathan Hickman, Bryan hitch. I love seeing Brian hitches artwork on the Avengers, brings me back to the ultimate universe and just makes me happy. So, Brian hitch. Jonathan Hickman in ultimate invasion. Excellent. Excellent book. I, I got hooked by this thing on the first, first issue. Second issue. Got a little confusing and then it got better from there. So really enjoy this, this series that is an ad. Believe it or not. I've just been picking that up off the shelf and I've gotten lucky we haven't sold out of them. So. Now I'm back to to, to doing it the, the, the official way and adding it to my pull list. Ultimate invasions worth your time. The other one that is on dive and reading off the shelf. That is going onto my list is void [00:10:00] rivals. So this is the spy bound comic. That was kind of the first book in that in the inner John universe. That they're that they're spinning up. And I just love it. I'm. I'm looking at a cover that is a second print cover. With a jet fire on the cover. And it's kind of a homage to the the Grover story. You know, from Sesame street. The monster at the end of this book. And it says the transformers bot at the end of this comic and a starring lovable tall jet flyer, it started lovable, old Grover. And it's such a, it's such a good book that the story at all is not. Particularly lovable. It's about kind of a star crossed meeting. Reminds me a little bit of the enemy mine. The idea is to enemies. Have met they've both crashed, landed, and met one another on a on an alien planet. They don't know where they are necessarily. And the, [00:11:00] they they find out some secrets about themselves. Their, their cultures have been in war for as long as they can remember. And they don't know why they're at war even. It's just that they hate each other because they'd killed each other as friends over a period of time. So it's this culture, they learned some things about each other because they're, they're stranded together. And And the story picks up from there. So void rivals is going on my list. I've been picking that up off the shelf. And have enjoyed it quite a bit. The other one I picked up off the shelf. Is a new number one that gets added. And that is transformers. So transformers number one. Man, it kinda picks up right in the middle of the eighties. It's right after the Autobots have crashed, landed. And they get discovered , by the kids who are out doing their thing. So it's sort of like , a slightly more mature version of the very first cartoon. Of transformers. So if you [00:12:00] remember back to that when that ship was found by the kids and and then the adventure started from there. And just imagine sort of a grownup version of that story. And that's what that's where we're looking at. Written by the great. Daniel Warren Johnson, who I just love. I think Daniel Warren Johnson's excellent. I've seen a bunch of stuff that he's done. He both wrote and drew this. So he's the writer and the artist. On this book he does get some help from Mike Spicer as a colorist and Russ Wooten is the litter. But Daniel warden Johnson does a, does a stellar job. On this, you don't see many books like this that are big franchise books. With a writer, artist combo, and that's, that's pretty impressive. So transformers Daniel, Warren, Johnson's our guy and well worth the time I would pick this one up too. If I were you. There's another one. That's that I've been reading. I picked up. X men. Following the hellfire gala and what, and everything that happened there.[00:13:00] Sort of the, the Coca-Cola. The Kurkova time that Hickman set up has fallen apart. So it's gone very much sideways for our heroes and they are once again, pariahs in society. Everyone's out to get the X-Men. And there's an incredible issue. I think it's issue number 25 with kitty pride, she's really embracing the shadow cat persona that she used to have. You know, she's been Kate pride now she's in this she's shadow cat, but imagine. Deadly ninja. They can phase through your body and do all sorts of terrible things to you. Yeah, she's that? And it's so good. So, that's such a good issue. Ah, excellent. Number 25. So it's made me want to pick up some X-Men. So I've picked up a few more. And I'm going to try to get caught up. I'm hoping the story. Has picked up and it's good again. I really liked kitty pride. When she was Kate pride on, in the marauders [00:14:00] and Dougan was writing then as well. So I'm hoping I've very, very high hopes. For what they're going to do, it seems like digging just really likes that character because the best things about anything that I've seen him, right. Have been the, the the approach to Katie pride or Kate bride thus far. I don't know why. But he's just done such an incredible job with, with that character. So. I'm going to pick that up again. And and see how it goes. I'm not reading spidey necessarily. I don't have Spider-Man in my pull list right now. They lost me. At some point in this new series. So I don't have spidey in there. I picked up star Trek, strange new worlds. The Scorpius run, it's sort of, between series book. And I've enjoyed that John and the shop recommended it, takes it up for me and. Had it to my list and I've I've been reading it ever since. And that is, I think that's it. I think those are all the [00:15:00] changes I'm going to make. I'm looking through other things that have been added and removed. I had Batman fortress. It was going for a little while. That was a good mini series. A. I'm dropping that just because it's over. So I would encourage you to pick up a bobbin fortress in collection. So they've collected it now. It's worth it. It's kind of like a aliens . Invade the world. Superman has disappeared. What do you do? And it's, it's become a really, really solid story. So I would, I would pick that up. Fire you it's. It's worth the read. And then in these. Well, the Indians I love, I, I, I. Started picking up a trade. I think department of truth is on hiatus right now. I love department of truth. And Monstrous as the other one that, that I'll pick up as the trades pop in. I've not been a saga reader. But as a group, the, the podcast guys, we all read saga we're we'll, we'll [00:16:00] do a podcast on that at some point. And I really enjoyed that. So I've actually been catching up on that and just re-read. Greenland and rebirth and a couple of other things. So. Man that is it. That's. I think you're caught up on everything. I'm reading what I'm adding and dropping from my list. And I encourage you to do the same. If you don't have a place where you have a pull list. Consistently today. You're welcome to join ours. Multi-verse dot shop. Is where you do that. There's a kind of a bright blue banner across the top. That gives you a link to click to get started. That's super easy. And, and I encourage you to do that. If you have a friendly local comic shop, certainly get a pull list , from those guys. And and I just encourage you to do that. It's a, it's tough when you start missing bits and pieces of your. Of your series. And the pull list is a. Absolutely free, easy way to solve that problem. So highly encouraged. Highly encourage you [00:17:00] to to do that and see how it goes. All right. Well, thanks for sticking with me for these 20 minutes as we've walked through. My pull list adds and drops. See you next time.
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