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Alex: The Infernal Hulk #7 (PKJ, Adam Gorham)
Dave: Escape #7 (Daniel Acuna, Rick Remender)
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Come on.
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Moving on to our next segment. Stand
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out
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cuppow
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moment of the week. Making you wait. Our
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favorite panel or page,
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you picked one from my top two. What did
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you like?
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Well, I just love this slaughter.
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>> You love it.
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>> I love it. Uh,
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number seven, Philip Kennedy Johnson
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with art by Adam Gorum. Uh, a
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devastating page for Maro's 20 fans. Um,
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no, I'm kidding. Maro is a great
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character, fascinating character,
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starting out as mut mutant liberation
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front as a morlock. Interesting stuff.
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Um, this is a brutal [ __ ] scene where
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uh,
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>> what's his name? Not Eternal. Eldest,
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Eldest snaps her spirine and then rips
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her in half. And Mera was known for
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being pretty [ __ ] resilient. She can
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rip her own bones out of her body and
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then those wounds heal. She also
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famously has two hearts. Um, because
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there's a story where Storm stabs her in
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a heart and she's like, "Ah, [ __ ] off. I
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have a second heart." And it's like,
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okay. Um, not sure where that came from.
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>> But I think even with a healing factor
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and uh, two hearts, I think this might
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be the end of Marrow for a while, which
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>> yeah,
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>> you know, it's not a surprising choice.
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She is like a popular character, but not
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a like top 15 to 20 popular character.
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>> So, there's people who are going to be
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like, "Oh [ __ ] they just killed a
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[ __ ] X-Men." Um, and
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>> didn't see that coming for sure.
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>> Didn't see that coming. But it's also
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not like [ __ ] Cyclops where you're
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like, "Okay, well, he's going to be back
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in an issue, you know? It's a character
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where like she she could stay dead for
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like potentially a decade until someone
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decides to bring her back."
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>> They need to keep her dead like Captain
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America, have a Bucky version of of Maro
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show up.
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>> Exactly.
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>> Do that for like 9 years, and then
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finally bring back Maro. Uh when there's
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the marrow bucky and then yeah, I think
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this is
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>> or they bring her back and she's like
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made out of bones and she like rips skin
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out of her bones. I don't know.
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Something stupid as hell.
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>> That would be helpful.
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>> I just thought that it was brutal. I
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love a sch slurp uh in a comic when it
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has
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>> aren't these the sounds when you make
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love.
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>> Exactly. Yeah. When I'm ripping my
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partner in half.
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Um,
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>> you know, be cool if she comes back and
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she's like Darth Maul with the spider
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legs.
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>> Oh [ __ ] that would be dope. Um, well,
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some people are saying that she's going
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to be like a really cool zombie fighter
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for Eldest that she like is going to be
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back in the next issue because he's like
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able to raise monsters and her power is
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obviously like a horrorbased power. Um,
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>> yeah,
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>> just gross. Talk about a kapow. Uh,
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thank god it wasn't Leech. If it was
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Leech, I would have started crying.
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>> Yeah, if you're listening, uh, go to
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acom.com to check out this art. My
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favorite panel or page came from Escape
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Number Seven by Daniel Akuna and Rick
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Remener. There was a couple pages like
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this one in a row that I really liked.
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um where the captions are showing how
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fast our character is thinking
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while he fights this Nazi bat guy. Uh
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and it's it's a fight that actually
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lasts three pages.
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>> And Akuna's
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storytelling here is so great. like
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every punch, every, you know, thud of
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the gun, it it feels really intense and
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yet it's just two characters that don't
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have powers in a hand to hand combat.
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And it it really is like a moment where
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you're worried that our hero could die.
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Obviously, he probably wouldn't, but uh
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the intensity of it, I think, is
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captured very well from these captions.
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like flash of white fades, bad news, the
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detonator, idiot. Like it's so fast,
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fast, fast, fast. And it's probably how
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you would think if you were literally
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like in the throws of like a if you just
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mess up for a second, you could be down
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for the cow and then shot dead. Uh, and
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I think that that is an element of like
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old war movies uh that is captured well.
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Like I mean we all remember the Prior
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Ryan scene where the guy is like going
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to get stabbed and the guy is fighting
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with the knife and then the knife slowly
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goes into his heart. Like it's those
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intense small moments even in in the in
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the span of a giant war where you
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realize you know this really these these
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wars come down to tiny moments like this
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which is really intense and quick.
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>> Yeah. all very impressive to make a like
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twoerson nonpowered melee melee fight so
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engaging. Um, I also like how the sound
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effects are going past the borders and
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how the detonator flies between the
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edges of panel one and panel two. That's
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just like cool cool detail work.
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>> Yeah, there's a lot of little Kuna is
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amazing and you you you probably have
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seen his work in Marvel. He he worked at
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almost exclusively Marvel for years, but
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cool to see him doing a creator round as
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well.
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Come on.
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