Hello Marvelites you're listening to this weekend Marvel,

and I'm Ryan Panago,

say K A Agent M.

And I'm Lorraine Sink, Agent of Earth X, Paradise X,

Marvel's X, Your X. This week in Marvel is a podcast where we talk about all things Marvel every single week,

except for this week because we did that on Friday. We're doing a very special episode this week with incredible Marvel

creator Alex Ross talking about Marvel's and The Earth X series of comics.

Yeah, this is a big super special episode because we have Alex Ross, Marvel Storyteller, writer, artist, painter,

kind of legendary storyteller over the last 25 years and then we also wanted to talk about some really great comics with him

which I think is especially fun right now for everybody who's at home who wants some Marvel comics to read while they're you know working from home or just

hanging out. I think a lot of people also know Alex Ross from his work on the

1994 series with Kurt Busick, Marvels.

And I think the thing that really sets that story apart

for a lot of people and why it's been one of his more iconic parts of his portfolio is that it's really told from a very

human perspective and Alex Ross's art is very important to that perspective because it has a sort of genuine realism to it.

It's sort of painterly, it's very realistic and yet it's very grounded in sort of a traditional

Marvel Comics style.

Yeah, the human perspective is so important to the book

because Marvel follows this reporter, Phil Sheldon.

He's a photographer in New York City, sort of at the onset of the Marvel

Age of Superhero.

So if you think about 1961 time frame in terms of when we started publishing Fantastic Four and then Hulk and X-Men and Spider-Man and

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