2:00

We're gonna have a little break in the

2:02

app for a couple weeks for the holidays

2:05

for the team to have

2:07

some time off, but then we're coming back

2:09

strong Friday, December 29th, 2023,

2:13

right at the end of the year for Ant-Man,

2:15

New Year, New Ant. It's a

2:17

one-shot story written by Jerry Duggan and it

2:19

is a lot of fun. There's a party

2:22

at Avengers Mansion. Things

2:24

go awry, Ironheart and

2:27

her armor play a big part in

2:29

this story. There's a giant baby. There's

2:32

a whole lot. Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. It's

2:34

very fun, very silly and a great way-

2:36

Wait, we talking Stay Plus Marshmallow Man giant?

2:39

I mean if you're Ant-sized, if

2:42

you're Ant-Man-sized, perspective is everything. It's

2:45

a great way to kick off your fitness journey as you get

2:47

into the New Year. I had a lot of fun with that

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one. Of course, you can

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we were also App of the

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Day recently across the world on

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iOS, so woo-hoo to us. Woo-woo.

3:09

All right, so as we keep

3:11

moving into the New Year, we've

3:14

got some incredible announcements and

3:16

I don't want to ignore January,

3:18

although that is going to be your time to

3:21

remember that you're now going to be writing 2024 instead of 2023. February

3:27

is coming. There's a lot of cool

3:29

things are coming out in February. There's

3:32

going to be Black

3:34

History Month covers. We've got Marvel's

3:36

Voices Legends coming out, but for

3:39

those who have been digging

3:43

deep into the Ultimate

3:45

Universe, we have got

3:47

Ultimate Storm and Ultimate Killmonger

3:50

making their electrifying debut in

3:52

the one, the only, Ultimate

3:55

Black Panther. I know

3:57

folks have been really excited about this since it's

3:59

announced. is going to be an Ultimate all

4:02

new to Challa, Black Panther. And

4:04

just to see what this world is going to

4:06

be, right? Because Wakanda is more than just the

4:09

Black Panther. You've got an entire cast of characters

4:11

who are going to be shaping out this world

4:13

of Wakanda, including, as I just said, an Ultimate

4:16

Storm and an Ultimate Killmonger. You

4:18

can check out Ultimate Universe's Storm

4:20

and Killmonger on April's Ultimate Black

4:22

Panther number three cover. And make

4:24

sure you check out Peach Momoko's

4:26

character design sheets over on

4:28

marvel.com. I

4:30

love this because right off the bat, Ultimate

4:34

Black Panther number one, the

4:36

couple debuts to defend their

4:38

people as these heroic

4:41

freedom fighters throughout the continent of

4:43

Africa. But when Moon Knight, yeah,

4:45

I said Moon Knight, army launches

4:48

a brutal invasion, they'll have to

4:50

convince the powerful nation of Wakanda

4:52

to finally step out of the

4:54

shadows. So make sure you

4:56

check out the covers and designs now. And

4:58

pre-order, go do it, put

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got some spidey news this

5:12

week because writer J.M. De

5:14

Mateus is going to reveal

5:16

the Osborn family's darkest secret

5:18

in Spider-Man Shadow of the

5:20

Green Goblin. This is coming

5:22

in April. Alongside De Mateus

5:24

is artist Michael Santamaria as

5:26

they continue to tell the

5:28

macabre mystery of Proto Goblin

5:30

in a new limited series.

5:33

This one is really interesting. It

5:35

revisits the now classic Spider-Man minus

5:38

one. Minus one was a whole series

5:40

of issues we did in 1997, telling

5:43

sort of old school

5:45

throwback, flashback issues. And Spider-Man

5:47

minus one was cool one. They're

5:49

going to revisit this, tie up

5:51

a plot thread that's been dangling

5:53

since that issue in 1997, involving

5:56

the tragic truth behind Norman

5:59

Osborn's research. assistant Nels

6:01

Van Adder the first test

6:03

subject for the goblin formula

6:05

which transformed him into proto

6:07

goblin so this is a

6:10

really neat one getting deep into those nooks

6:12

and crannies of spider-man lore you

6:14

want to head over to marvel.com you can check out

6:16

Paulo Saccato's new cover and get a

6:18

little bit of a tease and a hint

6:20

what's to come in spider-man shadow of the

6:22

green goblin coming in April. In

6:24

other comics news we have an exclusive

6:27

announcement following the return of carnage in

6:29

carnage number one and here to tell

6:31

us all about it is the writer

6:33

Tarn Gronvek. You were on this

6:36

week of Marvel earlier in

6:38

the season but now you're back and

6:40

you have news to share with

6:43

us exclusively here on this week

6:45

in Marvel tell me tell me tell me I want

6:47

all the juicy details. Okay

6:50

the thing is we are doing

6:52

we're doing a crossover with carnage

6:54

and venom it begins

6:56

with Carnage 5 and Venom

6:58

31 and it sort

7:01

of it made sense to us to to sort

7:04

of intertwine the two stories given that

7:06

they have Venom and Carnage

7:08

in the same city at the same time

7:11

like I'm writing Venomville

7:14

Al and Al has a

7:16

very specific idea we have

7:18

a very specific direction of where we're going

7:21

but it made no sense when carnage

7:24

figured out that he wanted to be a

7:26

god and he is sort

7:28

of trying to figure out what godliness

7:31

entails and if they're both

7:33

in the same city at the same time

7:35

we had to make

7:37

sure their paths crossed so

7:40

that is what we're doing.

7:43

Carnage desperately wants to to

7:46

get Eddie Brock and

7:48

he can't get to Eddie because Eddie

7:50

is nowhere to be found on earth

7:52

in this time and with the knowledge

7:55

that Venom is currently bonded to Dylan

7:58

they cleared his sort

8:00

of logic here is that if you

8:03

just torture the boy, the father will

8:05

come. So

8:07

that is sort of our setup for the

8:10

crossover. And it is the first time

8:12

we'll see Dylan and

8:15

Carnage sort of

8:17

both fight and be in the same room

8:19

together. And it is sort of that there

8:22

is some family drama going on here, because

8:24

technically, they're both the child of Eddie

8:26

or Venom in a sort of strange way.

8:28

So they're sort of kind of brothers, if

8:30

you want to look at it that way.

8:34

And it is it's so

8:36

natural to bring them together. It

8:39

brings up especially for Dylan, all

8:42

the secrets that Venom has

8:44

kept from him, because you sort of you assume

8:46

that if you bond

8:49

with someone, or a

8:51

symbiote, you will have access to everything they've done

8:53

and everything like you both will have access to

8:55

their mind. But

8:57

it's we sort of figure out that

9:00

Venom has kept things naturally from from

9:02

Dylan. Because,

9:04

I mean, Venom was the

9:06

one who made, like

9:09

Eddie do horrible things.

9:12

Dylan's mother do horrible things, like

9:14

we've gotten to the point

9:16

where if Dylan sees the full extent

9:18

of what Venom has done in this

9:20

world, might

9:22

not be great. And Carnage

9:25

being and clearest maybe especially

9:27

being the like,

9:31

just sadist as he is, he

9:33

doesn't just want to kill Dylan,

9:35

he wants Dylan to know everything.

9:38

He wants Dylan to be

9:40

aware of everything that Venom has done.

9:42

And it turns

9:45

into a sort of spectacular thing. And

9:48

then it sort of it

9:50

takes a turn. And I'm not going to say what

9:52

kind of turn but it goes, it doesn't go the

9:54

way you think it will. Okay, so we're gonna

9:56

keep the spoilers. But one thing I gotta say,

9:58

it seems like Whenever there's

10:01

one symbiote and

10:03

another symbiote get together we start dragging

10:05

and you're kind of

10:07

teasing it We'd start dragging the

10:09

family into this it becomes family

10:12

drama, you know What

10:15

can you tell us about the level of

10:17

drama on top of that and you know,

10:19

are we gonna see any other symbiotes? Well,

10:23

I don't want to spoil anything. I'm trying to be I don't

10:25

know. We are going to

10:27

see Cletus Kasady as his most horribly

10:30

cleedisy and we're gonna see sort of

10:32

the God emerging I love the fact

10:34

that we now have a word which

10:36

is Cletusy Cletusy. I think

10:39

there's a very sort of distinct

10:41

different between carnage who is the

10:43

puppy? Like it's just a sweet

10:45

little murderous puppy and You're

10:49

making a face or you do not agree No,

10:51

I just think it's I just thinking

10:53

of carnage as a sweet little murderous

10:55

puppy is like it's almost like saying

10:59

It's a mag-wai that you got wet that

11:01

you said and got wet after midnight and

11:03

that's carnage Yeah, carnage is a gremlin is

11:05

a sweet little murderous puppy. We is though

11:07

like it's just a Cletus

11:11

however is just

11:13

a murderous evil human being and it is a

11:15

sort of I think the two

11:17

of them together Like there's nothing like it

11:20

and being able to sort of push the

11:22

boundaries Because there

11:24

is a sort of there's a we

11:26

can't do all we I suppose we can we keep

11:29

Decapitating people and doing horrible things in

11:31

this book But yeah, when we bring

11:33

in the symbiotes the tone of the

11:35

fighting changes a little bit And

11:38

at this point the venom is sort

11:40

of fighting for his

11:42

own history in many ways he's sort

11:44

of trying to it's defending not only

11:46

Dylan but sort of himself as the

11:50

symbiotes and All

11:52

the things that he has made people do And

11:55

it is it is the beginning

11:58

of a big I

12:01

think I can say that. So

12:03

what I love about this is as we're

12:05

putting together this incredible book where you're giving

12:07

these different perspectives, we've got a

12:10

new look for carnage, we've

12:12

got variant covers, you are

12:14

working with some absolutely incredible

12:17

artists, both the artists that are

12:20

on dealing with carnage and

12:22

venom and some other folks coming

12:24

in. So talk to me about

12:26

how it's been working with these

12:28

creators. Well, working

12:30

with Perret on carnage,

12:34

I knew it would be something special

12:36

the moment I saw the second page

12:39

because he just gets it. He gets

12:41

me, he gets all my stupid jokes,

12:43

he delivers every moment and then more.

12:47

And you can kind of see, especially in

12:49

this issue, how we just sort of, he

12:51

lets loose. And it's a very interesting thing

12:53

because we're doing the same story

12:55

with two different point of views in Venom 31

12:57

and Carnage 5. And

13:01

in Venom 31, we have Ken

13:03

Lashley on art. And Ken

13:05

is a sort of old school genius. The

13:10

pages coming in are just like, it

13:12

just feels like they're from a different time

13:14

and they're so beautiful.

13:16

Like this is, like

13:19

the art is just stunning. And

13:21

he sort of sneaks up, he sends sort

13:23

of a picture of his desk and you

13:25

could see like half a page sticking out

13:27

and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever

13:30

seen. So I

13:32

think being able to do this with the two

13:34

of them, I know the

13:36

result is just going to be stunning. And

13:39

I'm so excited because we

13:42

talk with the editors and they

13:45

sort of just let us do exactly what we

13:47

wanted. And we haven't, like

13:50

there's no holding back anywhere.

13:53

So it sort of, it feels like something

13:55

truly special, at least to me. So

13:58

I couldn't be more excited. about this.

14:00

It looked when you

14:02

came on the pod to talk

14:05

about this new carnage series you

14:07

also mentioned the one and the

14:09

only Flash Thompson aka Antivinum and

14:12

you know for those who have read issue

14:14

one if you not go fix that in

14:17

your life it's out now issue

14:19

two comes out at the end of the month but

14:21

Antivinum you know is playing a

14:24

role here from literally

14:26

almost the first moments of

14:30

the story you know how

14:34

does he fit into the

14:36

crossover though? Well I'm

14:40

trying to spoil anything more here but

14:42

the thing is Flash is sort of

14:44

our savior in the book

14:46

and I think he's sort of

14:48

working both to save himself to

14:50

figure out who he is but

14:53

also just save and

14:55

when he saves carnage too but

14:58

I don't want to spoil exactly what

15:00

we're doing but Flash plays very much

15:02

plays a part not

15:05

in the Dylan, Khalidis,

15:07

carnage conflict but certainly in

15:10

the who is carnage

15:12

and who is Khalidis sort

15:14

of thing that we're

15:16

doing. I adore

15:18

that the person who is so good

15:21

with words is like I

15:23

do not I am NOT ruining

15:25

this for the readers and

15:28

you know it's funny because both you

15:30

and Al

15:33

between you and Al Ewing there's just been

15:35

a lot going on with Venom you

15:38

know that story

15:40

doesn't just stop right? The

15:42

story continues to go it continues to evolve and

15:44

I'm sure y'all had to work together

15:46

a little bit to make sure both the

15:48

storylines of Venom and Carnage also

15:51

keep their their parallel past moving

15:53

forward. How does this crossover a

15:55

bit further that story and you

15:58

know how much is involved? what's going on

16:00

over there? Oh I would say

16:03

very much like we've gotten to the point where

16:05

Dylan who is 16 17

16:08

something like that he's a young boy living

16:10

alone he's been left alone his father

16:13

sort of left him alone with some instructions

16:15

the main one being do not bond with

16:17

the symbiote which was obviously the first thing

16:19

he did but

16:21

there is a level of neglect here

16:23

that we can't sort of we've been

16:25

sort of skirting past it but it's

16:28

getting to the point now where like

16:30

Dylan cannot ignore it anymore so

16:33

this is sort of we're building up to

16:35

the big one with and

16:37

as I said like that it's the beginning

16:40

is this crossover this is the

16:42

point where Dylan sort

16:45

of understands and sees the

16:48

entire picture for the first time

16:52

and this is the thing

16:54

that sort of push the

16:56

conflict ahead it makes

16:58

sense it does and it

17:01

will make sense when folks go out and make

17:03

sure you pick up issue number

17:05

one and issue number two

17:08

of carnage but also catch

17:10

up on venom because

17:12

it's gonna get messy in the

17:15

best way make sure you catch

17:17

this thrilling new crossover between two

17:19

of our favorite symbiote baddies carnage

17:21

and venom starting in March with

17:24

venom number 31 and carnage number

17:26

five wonderful animation news

17:28

for everybody out there because Marvel's

17:30

moon girl and double dinosaurs roaring

17:33

back for season two it's gonna

17:35

be very excited of course this

17:37

is the Disney branded televisions Emmy

17:40

Award nominated Marvel's moon girl

17:42

in season two it's gonna debut a

17:44

season two on Friday February 2nd at

17:46

8 p.m. Eastern on Disney Channel and

17:48

Disney XD with two episodes and

17:51

then a batch of season two episodes will

17:53

be available February 3rd on Disney Plus and

17:55

the whole first season is now available to

17:57

stream on Disney Plus What

18:00

if? Hmm. Hmm. It's

18:03

a question I ask myself every day. And you know

18:05

what? It's a question we're

18:07

all going to be able to celebrate

18:09

very soon because Marvel Studios' new

18:11

season of What If, she

18:14

coming. Mm-hmm.

18:16

So I'm really excited because

18:18

filmmakers, press, and special guests

18:20

gathered earlier this week at

18:22

the Walt Disney Studios lot to screen

18:25

not one but two all-new episodes of

18:27

season two of Marvel Studios' What If.

18:30

It is arriving for all the rest of us

18:33

common folk on

18:35

Disney Plus on December 22nd. I'm

18:38

joking. We're all very special with new

18:40

episodes that are going to be arriving

18:43

every single night

18:46

for nine days. Happy

18:49

holidays. For

18:52

the special screening though, it was

18:54

actually introduced by executive producer Brad

18:56

Winterbaum, head of streaming television

18:58

and animation for Marvel Studios. And it was followed

19:00

by a Q&A with

19:02

filmmakers, including director and executive

19:05

producer Brian Andrews, writer and

19:07

executive producer A.C. Bradley, and

19:09

writer, producer Matthew Chauncey, kind

19:12

of coming in and talking about where this season is going

19:14

to go. And as a surprise

19:17

for those in the room, Winterbaum shared a

19:19

sizzle reel highlighting three of the

19:21

studio's upcoming animated series. Hell

19:24

yeah. Reaching Eyes of Wakanda, which

19:27

was revealed for the first time throughout

19:29

Wakanda history, brave warriors have been

19:31

tasked to travel the world, retrieving

19:34

dangerous, vibrating artifacts. This

19:36

is a story. That's how I

19:38

imagine I would read it. And

19:40

obviously, you

19:43

could not have done

19:45

this without doing a

19:47

little X-Men 97 and your friendly neighborhood

19:53

Spider-Man, previously titled Spider-Man

19:55

Freshman Year, was

19:57

also part of the lineup featured.

20:00

Dive into the multiverse with

20:02

What If, Season 2, and

20:04

a all-new episode every single

20:07

day starting on December 22nd.

20:10

Angelique, we were just talking about Marvel

20:12

Studios' X-Men 97, and I also want

20:14

to talk about some action figures from

20:17

Hasbro. So how about we marry the

20:19

two with a whole new wave of

20:21

Marvel Legends figures inspired by the series?

20:23

A bunch of figures in this wave

20:25

include Magneto with the big

20:28

M on his chest. Oh,

20:30

I love that look so much. Nightcrawler,

20:33

Jean Grey, Goblin Queen, which is awesome, different

20:35

from the one that you might have seen

20:37

a couple years ago

20:39

that Hasbro had teased out. This one is

20:41

very cool. It's based on the appearance in

20:43

X-Men 97. Goblin

20:45

Queen even comes with a little baby

20:47

Nate. Oh, so cute. An executioner

20:49

figure? Y'all, if you've never read executioner's

20:52

first appearance in the comics, it's a

20:54

banger. It's from an annual. It's real

20:56

good. It's a great, great, great

20:58

look for this character coming in

21:01

X-Men 97, as well as Cyclops.

21:03

He's got his little Force Blast

21:05

accessory looking fantastic.

21:08

This series of figures will be available for pre-order

21:10

in early 2024. In

21:12

other Marvel Legends news, during the

21:15

Hasbro Pulse fan stream yesterday, the

21:17

Marvel Legends team revealed a bunch

21:19

of other figures set

21:21

to debut in 2024. And

21:24

these included four different

21:27

Wolverine two-packs celebrating the hero's

21:29

50th anniversary. These two-packs

21:32

included some incredible

21:34

pairs, Brood Wolverine and

21:36

LeLandra, Marvel's Logan and

21:38

Sabretooth, Wolverine and Psylocke,

21:41

and Patch and Joe Fix It.

21:43

But also they revealed a classic

21:45

angel, Sam Wilson, Captain America

21:47

with Wings, which is a Target exclusive,

21:51

and Evil Captain America,

21:53

which is a Walmart exclusive. So make

21:55

sure you're checking out and watching out

21:57

for those brand new pieces coming out.

22:00

out next year. Angelique, it's

22:02

so far away. You know

22:04

what, Ryan, it is. But in the meantime,

22:07

we got comics on comics on comics because a

22:10

year may be coming to an end, but

22:12

there are still stories to be told.

22:14

Yeah, we have a couple picks I

22:16

wanted to toss out there. First up,

22:18

Daredevil Gang War number one. We've talked

22:21

about this on the show recently with

22:23

writer Erica Schultz. Gorgeous Pencils

22:25

by Sergio Zabila. It

22:28

is Badass Brings a New Villain

22:30

into Daredevil, where Electra has to

22:32

not only take on the heat, which is this

22:35

group that she's been fighting and has been

22:37

popping up in the main Daredevil book,

22:39

but then there's this other character who

22:42

is awesome and kind of like takes

22:44

it to Electra in this episode, which

22:46

I was really into. Plus, you got

22:48

all the gang warreness. And so like,

22:50

I like how this touches on crossovers,

22:53

like tells you other perspectives of scenes

22:55

we see in other books, which is

22:57

always, always a blast. Perfection.

23:00

That's all I got. It's Brings

23:03

Perfection. Yeah. This week also has a bunch of,

23:06

it's got some cool starting points, but

23:08

also big endings. We've got Moon Knight number 30,

23:11

which I want to toss out as a pick, written

23:13

by Jed McKay, art by Alessandro

23:15

Capuccio, and colors by Rochelle Rosenberg.

23:18

And this is the one.

23:20

The issue is called the

23:22

terminal seconds of Moon Knight. And we've been like teasing. I

23:24

mean, we knew this was coming. Yeah. Like it was

23:26

like watching a train wreck. Yes.

23:28

But a pretty train wreck,

23:30

a well-drawn gorgeous train

23:33

wreck, because that's who Moon Knight

23:35

is. Yeah. And so

23:37

like, we

23:39

know there's a new Moon Knight coming soon. And

23:41

we know what that, what is coming in Vengeance of

23:43

the Moon Knight, but this is how it all

23:45

comes together. And it's some really emotional great beats towards

23:48

the end of this, where like, Moon

23:50

Knight has gone through this gauntlet, gauntlet,

23:52

ahh, it's chaos and craziness. And then

23:55

how it all shakes out. And then who's

23:58

there to pick up the pieces afterwards? the

24:00

last page of this, so rad.

24:02

I love this book and I think this

24:04

is a great way to wrap up this

24:07

volume to lead us into what's next, which

24:09

is not far off. We don't have to

24:11

wait too long. And then

24:14

another, I believe this might be the

24:16

last issue, or at least it's the

24:18

end of a big storyline for X-Men

24:20

Red number 18. It is written by

24:22

Al Ewing, art by Ildaray Sinar, Colours

24:25

by Federico Bly. This is Storm

24:30

taking the stand, fighting

24:32

Genesis, the apocalypse's partner,

24:37

life partner if you will, who has come

24:39

and has been corrupted and is

24:41

trying to take over Araco

24:43

and it is awesome. There's

24:45

big massive fights of giant

24:48

kaiju-sized islands battling each other,

24:51

maybe hugging, who knows, we'll

24:53

see. There's plenty

24:56

of sadness in

24:58

here and death and sacrifice

25:00

and heroism and storm. If

25:04

you have not been reading X-Men Red and you

25:06

are a stormman, I'll get your

25:08

butt on this. It is so good. So

25:11

good. I think it

25:13

is time for us to take a

25:15

break first, but do not go

25:17

anywhere. We're going to be right back because we're going

25:19

to be talking our Marvel holiday

25:21

gift guide. We'll be right back. Welcome

25:34

back. You're listening to This Week in Marvel. I'm

25:36

Ryan Penagos. I am Angelique

25:38

Rocher and this is it. This

25:41

is what you've been waiting for. Yeah, we

25:44

are getting into the Marvel

25:46

holiday gift guide with marvel.com

25:48

Associate Editor Megan Damore talking

25:50

about a whole bunch of picks that she's put

25:52

up, some picks from Angelique and I, and

25:56

it's fun. A lot of gift ideas. It's not

25:58

too late, but you know, know what, let's

26:00

get into it, our holiday

26:02

gift guide spectacular right now.

26:08

Angelique, I'm excited to talk about

26:10

gifts and we have to do

26:13

it with our resident marvel.com gift

26:15

expert, Megan Damore. Hello, Megan. Hi,

26:18

Ryan. Hi, Angelique. How are you guys today?

26:21

So pretty good. Thanks for being here. Of

26:23

course, happy to be here. Megan,

26:25

you are the person who shepherds

26:28

all the amazing gift

26:30

guides that we have on marvel.com so

26:32

it feels super appropriate to

26:34

have you on here. Can you help

26:36

us come up with some really great

26:39

gift ideas of all kinds of all

26:41

price ranges and age ranges and maybe,

26:43

Angelique, you and I can throw in

26:45

some to sprinkle in from our own

26:47

hearts. Well, as a

26:49

matter of fact, I have gone and picked out

26:51

a few of my favorite items from

26:54

Marvel. It's like she just put it into a computer and

26:56

it just happened. So

26:58

I'm going to get us started actually by talking

27:00

about the Lego Avengers Tower, which is so cool.

27:03

It is 35.5 inches tall, which is like two

27:05

feet tall of Legos. Almost

27:12

three. That's the size of a

27:14

toddler. Also, Ryan can't stop talking about it

27:16

either. So well done, Megan. And I

27:18

was leaning into the Ryan of... Oh, wait. I wanted to get

27:21

where you leaning... Were you leaning into

27:23

the tower? Sorry. I'll see myself

27:25

out. Bye, Angelique.

27:27

See you later. That

27:29

was fast. So

27:31

this Lego Avengers Tower

27:33

set comes with 5,201 pieces in 31 minifigures.

27:39

And these are minifigures from all across

27:42

the Marvel Cinematic

27:44

Universe timeline. So we've got Iron

27:47

Man, Wong, Captain America, Thor,

27:49

Ant-Man, Black Widow, Nick Fury,

27:51

Hulk, War Machine, Vision, Hawkeye,

27:53

Wanda Maximoff, Wasp. So we're talking

27:55

like every single era of the

27:58

Marvel Cinematic Universe. So cool. which

28:00

is super cool. In my brain, audibly,

28:02

it was you just making that list, and then

28:04

10 minutes later,

28:06

and hops. We

28:09

would need 10 minutes by listed, all

28:11

31 of them. That's

28:14

amazing. But it's also not just

28:16

the figurines, right? It's not just the

28:18

figurines. We've got like little props and stuff

28:20

too from across this Marvel Cinematic

28:23

Universe timeline. We've got a

28:25

quinjet, we have some Chitauri chariots, like

28:28

the tesseract, Thor's hammer, the

28:30

pager that Nick Fury used to summon Captain Marvel

28:33

and Avengers and the

28:44

game. I'm sorry, did you say there's

28:46

a pager? There is a pager. What kid doesn't want a pager?

28:48

I mean, Aja Leek and I are probably the only people here

28:50

who had pagers, because I definitely remember them. Sure.

28:54

Including the one Nick Fury has. I love

28:56

it. We did a really great behind the

28:58

scenes chat about this gargantuan

29:02

toy set, amazing piece of

29:04

conversation that anybody who has

29:06

it in their house or

29:08

wherever. So if you haven't listened

29:10

to that yet, go check it out from one of our most

29:12

recent episodes. But that's probably the most

29:14

premium, incredible gift one can give or receive.

29:17

It's a piece of architecture. It really is.

29:19

It's a piece of architecture. And it's a

29:21

fun project to do with the ones you

29:23

love over the course of probably like several

29:27

weeks. I was going to say, I feel

29:29

like that requires some teamwork. Yeah. Yeah.

29:32

Yeah. Well, I gotta say, that's great. But

29:34

in the line of toys, Megan, I

29:36

know also on your list, and

29:39

for anyone who knows me, they know the

29:41

next word is going to be fun because

29:43

it's Funko. And there's so many Funkos on

29:46

this list, Megan. My

29:49

heart, because in particular, there were three that

29:51

I fell in love with because you can

29:54

never choose just one Funko, says

29:56

the several hundred in my house. May

30:00

Day, which I know is an exclusive at Hot

30:02

Topic. Obie,

30:04

literally the standout from

30:06

Marvel Studios, Loki

30:09

season two, has

30:11

his own Funko. It's so cute.

30:14

And for us old,

30:16

surly, X-Men

30:19

heads, our sweet,

30:21

sweet, sweet, sweet boy,

30:23

Wolverine, has his

30:25

own snow vinyl Funko.

30:28

And it's covered in snow. Just in time for

30:30

the holidays too. Just in time for snow season.

30:33

He's perfect. Yeah. Well,

30:35

let's move us right along into the next

30:37

item on my list, which

30:40

is the Spider-Man cozy family

30:42

matching sleepwear collection, which again,

30:44

perfect for this time of year

30:46

when we're sending out Christmas cards and

30:48

everybody's wearing matching pajamas. And

30:51

why not make it spider themed?

30:53

It includes a two piece sleep

30:55

set for men, women, and kids.

30:57

And the coordinating assortment features Spider-Man

30:59

applique and an all over plaid

31:01

pattern and Spidey's signature colors. I

31:04

love this so much. As

31:07

a family who loves matching

31:09

pajamas during the holiday seasons,

31:11

I am going to

31:13

be putting this in my cart and buying it for

31:15

the family ASAP. Also

31:17

for those who will be looking for

31:19

this, and for all of the gifts that we're going

31:22

to be talking about today, you can make sure that

31:24

you check out the show notes. We'll

31:26

make sure that you too can have the level of

31:28

joy that we have right now talking about our favorite

31:31

things. Speaking of, sometimes, Ryan, you

31:33

got to go get moving. Which

31:35

is great because I wanted to make

31:38

sure everybody thinks about a Marvel Move

31:40

subscription. You can have it as a

31:42

gift for yourself or for someone who wants to kick off

31:44

the new year in a very healthy way. You

31:46

walk, run, jog, move however

31:48

you want to Marvel storytelling

31:50

and a whole bunch of

31:52

interactive audio adventures. It

31:55

is a whole bunch of fun. We have

31:57

more stories, more episodes added every week. Our

31:59

Daredevil story. It's just about to start really

32:01

soon and that one's pretty pretty fun pretty

32:03

gnarly It's got black widow in it and

32:06

bullseye and a bunch of surprises We have

32:08

tons more coming in 2024 as we go

32:10

through those And

32:13

so if you go to ZRX app

32:15

slash gift slash Marvel You can get

32:17

gift subscriptions for six months or a

32:19

year and I love it because

32:21

we also made it so you can buy

32:24

two subscriptions One for yourself

32:26

one for someone you love and you can

32:28

move together And in fact, I feel

32:30

like we all need a little inspiration Right

32:32

like we need someplace to find the hero that

32:34

we're meant to be and as a

32:36

matter of fact We have a little book like that for

32:39

our younger readers That

32:41

would be the Marvel's the hero

32:43

I'm meant to be which is

32:46

written by Pamela Bobowitz and illustrated

32:48

by Alexander Varbosa it's a little

32:50

hardcover for for kids ages four

32:52

to eight and this stars the

32:54

stars of the Marvel's So

32:57

we've got Captain Marvel in there. We've

32:59

got Monica Rambeau. It's miss Marvel I wish

33:01

we there was a visual component of this

33:03

podcast so I could show you how cute

33:05

the Illustrations on this book are they

33:07

are just absolutely adorable Yeah,

33:11

but we also have other books like if you

33:13

want books with mostly words,

33:15

how about your next pick? Yes,

33:18

this next pick is for adults That's

33:20

for sure and it might sound a

33:23

little familiar if you've seen Ant-Man and the

33:25

Wasp of Quantum Media So

33:27

this book is titled look out for the

33:29

little guy and this is in fact the

33:31

memoir that Ant-Man

33:33

wrote in Ant-Man and the Wasp of

33:36

Quantum Media, but we've made it a reality. So

33:38

this is 224

33:40

pages of Ant-Man story 224

33:44

pages of Scott Lang it sure

33:46

is And this is

33:48

his version of events From

33:50

his adventures and the MCU so

33:53

far. So it is a delightful

33:56

little novel of Scott Lang's Life

33:59

and Time Love it.

34:01

That is definitely MCU vibes

34:03

right there. But we also

34:05

I wanted to toss out

34:07

another MCU book which is

34:09

Marvel Studios the Marvel Cinematic

34:11

Universe an official timeline by

34:13

Anthony Bresnikin, Amy Ratcliffe and

34:15

Rebecca Theodore Vachon. And we

34:18

had them on the show also recently talking

34:21

about the book so if you missed that

34:23

go find it one of our recent episodes.

34:25

But I actually have it on my bookshelf

34:27

here at the Marvel offices. It's a great

34:30

resource. It's fun. It's full of tidbits, great

34:32

art. It is one of those things where you're

34:35

gonna go back to like all the

34:37

time especially if you just like have a hankering

34:39

to go watch one of the movies in the

34:41

MCU canon you're gonna then go back to the

34:43

book and be like oh

34:45

right and you start seeing new things and

34:48

learning new things and it's just

34:50

fun. Here's the thing I feel like that

34:52

was a lot of books right? Yeah. That's a lot

34:54

of books we just said. So I

34:56

feel like we might need something to carry all

34:58

those books around in. So I want to talk

35:00

a little

35:02

bit about the Weapon X

35:04

backpack that is part of

35:06

the Heroes and Villains collection. I

35:09

love their latest X-Men collection.

35:11

It's so good. I had

35:13

a very difficult time

35:15

narrowing down what I wanted to share

35:17

from this particular collection but I had

35:19

to say it had to be the

35:21

Weapon X backpack. I feel like it

35:23

could be a perfect gift for the X-Men fan

35:25

in your life. It could be for a man,

35:28

a woman, a kid. Anybody in

35:30

the family would be thrilled to have this Weapon

35:32

X backpack which can fit up to a

35:34

17-inch laptop. So that's a pretty

35:36

sizable sizable bag and

35:38

it comes with so many pouches. So I

35:41

got one at New York Comic Con and

35:43

has it immediately became my daily backpack. I

35:46

take it to and from the office. I

35:49

will be honest with you, I'm not always

35:51

the brightest bulb on the ceiling

35:54

and only two weeks

35:56

ago did I realize as I was holding it

35:58

on my lap on the to the

36:01

office and said, wait, what's this zipper?

36:03

I thought I had found all the

36:05

compartments. And I unzipped

36:07

it and said, oh, there's

36:09

a dedicated space for the laptop, which

36:12

is separate from everything else. And it

36:14

like elevated the bag even

36:16

higher up. It is an incredible bag.

36:18

It carries so much stuff. It

36:21

is, I love it. I'm

36:23

literally wearing an Avengers sweater from

36:25

Heroes and Villains right now. They

36:27

make kind of all my

36:30

favorite things ever. They

36:32

also make a bunch of Japanese

36:34

Spider-Man, like Superman stuff. I

36:37

love them, they're the best. Look,

36:40

I agree. But for those of

36:43

us who also love fashion, I got a

36:45

shout out. There's a couple other things on

36:47

lists that have to do with clothing,

36:50

speaking of sweater. So

36:53

anybody knows me, I'm a casual closet

36:55

cosplay girl. I

36:57

have to caveat, there is

37:00

a lot of incredible fashion,

37:02

particularly out there for your, I

37:06

would say teens, pre-teens, folks who

37:08

like showing their fandom every single

37:10

day, who may

37:12

not be full fledged cosplayers, or

37:14

maybe and just wanna be stylish

37:16

on a Saturday. But

37:18

in particular, our

37:20

universe and her universe did

37:23

some amazing, amazing stuff with

37:25

some of the latest releases,

37:27

including our universe

37:29

low-key TVA double-breasted coat,

37:32

which is amazing. There's also

37:34

the shirt I have on right

37:37

now, which is the Our Universe,

37:39

the Marvel's flurkin' split woven button-up.

37:41

What that really means is it's

37:44

a button-up flurkin' shirt that has

37:48

tentacles and cats and flurkitties and it's

37:50

everything. I actually wore

37:52

it to the fan event for Marvel Studios and

37:54

Marvels and it was a hit. But

37:57

also, shout out. to

38:00

my favorite girl, her universe, Marvel

38:03

Studios, the Marvels, Photon, girls

38:05

hoodie with matching leggings. You

38:07

can literally dress like Monica

38:10

Rambeau every day of your

38:12

life. I've already did.

38:14

I have it. It's currently on sale. Go

38:18

get it. Like, I think it's the, you should give

38:20

it to everyone. Listen,

38:22

Angelique, I am also a hoodie girl. And

38:25

so I made sure to include one on my list

38:27

as well. So I have the

38:29

Go Spider pullover hoodie from

38:31

Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. You

38:34

can feel like Spider-Gwen. You can feel like Go

38:36

Spider by wearing this sweatshirt

38:39

with bold color blocking and the pink

38:41

web pattern and the pink lined hoodie that

38:43

Go Spider made famous. And

38:46

it comes in kid sizes too. So you can

38:48

find these both on shopdisney.com. And

38:51

they are good for anybody in your life.

38:54

Anybody who feels particularly drawn to Across

38:56

the Spider-Verse, Into the Spider-Verse,

38:58

or just the spider heroes

39:00

in general. We do

39:03

have a wonderful array of spider people.

39:05

Like we have two Spider-Men in Marvel

39:07

Spider-Man 2. I

39:09

had to include this y'all because it's

39:12

so good. The game is amazing. It

39:14

is available exclusively on PlayStation. You can

39:16

buy the physical version of the game.

39:18

You can buy a digital version. There's

39:20

a whole bunch of versions of the

39:22

digital version. If

39:25

you don't have a PlayStation 5 yet,

39:27

you can get the bundle which comes

39:29

with the game and the console. There

39:31

are like color

39:34

versions of the frame

39:36

for the PlayStation. There's the PlayStation

39:39

DualSense controller that

39:41

is themed from the

39:44

game. There's a bunch of different ways to celebrate

39:46

Marvel Spider-Man 2. Or just like

39:48

play the damn game. Feel all the emotions.

39:52

See what happens when Kraven and Venom fight.

39:54

It's a whole thing. You'll laugh. You'll

39:56

cry. Exactly. third

40:00

playthrough. I

40:03

recommend the Deluxe version

40:05

for the additional suit. That

40:07

game is fun for

40:09

the whole family. It is

40:11

something that everyone could do

40:13

together. But Ryan, I

40:17

gotta say some

40:20

people aren't video game people.

40:22

So maybe they like something

40:24

more tangible. Well,

40:26

do I have a tangible gift

40:29

for you? So we have

40:31

the Marvel Tarot deck and guide book,

40:33

which includes 78 Tarot cards

40:35

with that are illustrated by Lily

40:37

McDonald. And now all of these

40:40

cards feature Marvel characters. So that's

40:43

anyone including Loki, Galactus, Captain

40:45

Marvel, Moon Knight. There's, there's

40:47

two group cards, two group

40:50

cards, two group cards in

40:52

there, but they're absolutely gorgeous.

40:55

The guide book, actually, if you are

40:58

a novice, you've never done this

41:00

before. It's something you kind of want

41:02

to learn about. It's actually really, really

41:04

informative. There's different ways that you can

41:06

lay the cards out. There's explanations of

41:09

all the cards. And there was a

41:11

lot of love that went into particularly

41:13

choosing certain characters for certain cards. And

41:15

like even as I said, there's two

41:17

group cards, but it's group at two

41:20

different like evolutions. So it's like baby

41:22

group group. But yeah,

41:24

so it does feature the major and

41:26

minor arcana for those who know how

41:29

that works. Obviously the major being these,

41:32

these big shifts. And the minor

41:34

kind of looking at very specific

41:36

questions and ideas, depending on what

41:38

your philosophy is when it comes

41:40

to Terra. They

41:42

also come in this beautiful decorative gold

41:45

gift box. It's

41:48

gorgeous. So I would suggest

41:50

pairing this gift with

41:53

this gorgeous marble glass set that

41:55

has the Avengers logo. Now we'll

41:57

also say there's a Thor one.

42:00

And there's a Deadpool one. I'm

42:02

to say my name starts with an A and

42:04

I'm always going to go with Avengers when

42:07

it comes to giving gifts. It's

42:09

a collective gift set of two glasses,

42:12

absolutely gorgeous to

42:15

put whatever beverage you cold

42:17

beverage that you choose in

42:19

them. You know what

42:21

else goes great with beverages? Reading.

42:24

And we haven't really touched on the

42:26

most important thing a human can read

42:28

which is comic books, Marvel comic books.

42:30

Megan what do you have to say

42:32

about some Marvel comics? Well

42:34

first let me say I wanted to end on a

42:37

strong note. So this is my other

42:39

favorite item on the list being

42:42

the Marvel Unlimited subscription. And

42:45

wouldn't you know we're having a holiday

42:47

sale for a Marvel Unlimited subscription. Now

42:49

this is kind of like the

42:51

streaming service of comics, right? And

42:54

like I said Marvel Unlimited is currently

42:57

having a sale. So if you sign

42:59

up between now and January 4th you

43:02

can buy a year long subscription

43:04

for $55 with the code HOLIDAY23. And

43:10

this will also include a digital bundle of

43:12

director's cuts of comics and those comics are

43:15

Ultimate Invasion number one, the Hellfire Gala

43:17

from this year, Sins of Sinister number

43:19

one, Death of the Venoverse number one,

43:22

and Captain America Cold War Alpha number

43:24

one. The other awesome thing that I know a

43:26

lot of fans use it for is to kind

43:28

of read a whole bunch of books and test

43:30

a bunch of books and then oh I

43:33

read this and I really like it. I'm going to

43:35

go buy the trade paperback or the hardcover so

43:38

I can read it without having to worry

43:40

about like spending a whole bunch of money

43:42

upfront and then they can buy something that

43:44

they can have forever in a

43:47

print format later on. I think

43:49

that's a really fun way to

43:51

enjoy the comics. Yeah

43:54

and I feel like it's also accessible. It

43:56

also makes accessible comics that are more

43:58

difficult to find. in

44:01

a comic shop. Like I read all of Uncanny

44:04

X-Men on Marvel Unlimited

44:06

and I'm talking about going back to the

44:08

very beginning to the 60s through the 80s

44:11

and the 90s. You have the

44:13

entire or nearly the entire run

44:15

of Uncanny X-Men on

44:17

this one available to you whenever

44:19

you want. Megan you picked

44:21

a really good you

44:24

picked yeah no this is this is

44:27

a solid all-encompassing everybody should have this

44:29

in their stocking gift. Indeed. One

44:33

last thing we wanted to shout out is Marvel

44:36

HQ you know parents get your young

44:38

Marvel fan the gift of a subscription

44:40

to the Marvel HQ app. Published

44:43

by Story Toys, Marvel HQ is

44:45

a one-stop hub for superhero fans

44:47

designed for kids ages 4 to

44:50

7. It's packed with activities, videos,

44:52

creative fun, books, comics, learning and

44:54

interactive characters. All the

44:56

gangs here from Marvel Spidey and his

44:58

amazing friends to Captain America, Black Panther,

45:00

to Groot and many many more.

45:03

And while your little superheroes are having

45:05

fun they'll also be learning. For example

45:08

they'll practice problem-solving skills by coding with

45:10

Hulk, make and play music with Spidey,

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I love that so much. When

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a special thanks to marvel.com

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bringing in the Marvel holiday gift

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guide. Make sure

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you're checking out our show notes. All the stuff

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we talked about is going to be down there.

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So you can specifically go and check it out.

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most amazing things for

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your loved ones, or yourself, or

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yourself. Because I might have bought myself something during

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that conversation. Fair

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enough. All right, let's

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get into our community section, AKA This

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Week in Messages and TF, an upcoming

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question of the week. What Marvel things

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are you most excited for in 2024? Could

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be comics, could be a film,

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could be something on Disney Plus, could be

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a toy, could be a surprise,

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could be a convention. Who knows?

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What are you excited about, Ren? I

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am excited for possibilities.

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I'm also very much excited for

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the big old Deadpool film coming

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to big screens. Oh, yeah. I'm

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excited for a lot of comic

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stuff, from Blood Hunt to

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all the things happening with the X-Men.

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As an X-Men fan, for life, I

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am jazzed. Well, I am

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personally excited to finally give the world

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My Superheroes Black, which is coming out

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in 2024. I'm

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excited for all the comic books. I'm

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excited for all the Marvel's

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Voices stuff that's coming, because I'm selfishly always

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going to think about that. But also Marvel

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Studios Echo coming out in January. I've

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been literally at, if you

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haven't seen that teaser trailer,

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go watch it. So good. Um,

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and then go read all of the echo comics you

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can. Uh, but yeah, no,

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I'm, it's going to be a good year. Heck

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yeah. Uh, so again, we want to

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know what Marvel things are you most excited for

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in 2024? Tell us all,

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tell us everything we want to know. You

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can send your answers to us on

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social media at the right Instagram, et

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cetera. Uh, at agent M, um,

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at onto the crochet or use the

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hashtag this weekend. Marvel. It's still active

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over on Twitter. You can send a

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message to our Facebook page at facebook.com/this

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best way is to email them to us at

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twin podcast at marvel.com. Make sure to tell us

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it is okay to read Twim on

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the show. Love

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it. Love it. Love it. And,

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but in the meantime, we had a question of the week last week and

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that question was what's

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on your Marvel wish list

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this year? Yeah,

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Caroline Cosplay, uh, said,

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my wish is to get another

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Peach Momoko book with Psy as

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the main character soon. That's

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a, it's a great wish, Caroline.

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I will say though, Peach is

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working hard on the ultimate

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X-Men comic. So I

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think that's going to be the big thing for

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Peach, at least for the foreseeable future.

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Uh, Anne Mervine at

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Mervine underscore Jean

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said new comics for them,

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which I love because it's

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a picture of sweet, sweet

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Wiccan and sweet, sweet Hulkling

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at their wedding, getting their

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kiss on and it's so

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adorable. And the white tiger core said,

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I want more white tiger content has

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been very underused for a long time

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outside of a few issues or comics.

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Hey, one never knows white

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tiger. one never does.

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We've got an email from

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our pal Caris. Don't

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tell Tracy, my wife, but

50:09

I bought her the Lego Aventress Tower set

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and I can't wait to see her face

50:13

when she opens it. I really hope she's

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not listening to this. There

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will be photos all over social media.

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I'm also searching for the Nova trade

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that came out earlier in the year

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for her. I have a list

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of Marvel Funko pops I want to buy, but

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the one at the top it is

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Princess Carol from the Marvels, but

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sadly it's a US

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exclusive. Sad face.

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Maybe I'll get it for my birthday instead. Love to

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all, Caris. Happy

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holidays, Caris and Tracy. All right, those

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are some great, great emails and messages.

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Thank you all for sending some in

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all year long. But oh, Ryan, we

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have a gift for them. We do?

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What is it? We have a

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Marvel Insider code. The

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supply. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Quick

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note, we'll be back in the new year.

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Have a wonderful holiday new year and stay

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tuned. This episode of This Week in Marvel

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is produced by Jasmine Estrada, Isabelle Robertson, Anjali

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Groce and Ryan Penabas. Our

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senior manager of production and development

51:37

is Brad Barton. Emily

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Gottfried is our production manager. Special

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thanks to Megan, Jamore for

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coming on and giving all us

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that good gift holiday wisdom. Yeah,

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a special thanks to everybody who listened this

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year. We appreciate you and we'll catch you

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in the new year. I'm Ryan. I'm Anjali.

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This is Marvel. Your universe.

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you