Hello, Marlates welcome to the Polest!

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.

This is our special romance episode.

We're going to talk about comics.

What's more romantic than that? Yeah, right? We're going to talk about all the new comics. Comics. of them. So I'm going to dive right into it.

First up, we've got Amazing Spider-Man annual number 42.

If you don't know what an annual is, real quick, an annual is a book that comes at once a year,

sort of bigger than your traditional issue of the comic book series, so larger than a regular issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and these tell-tales that sometimes they tie to other things, sometimes they're just one-offs.

Usually they include a couple of different stories. I'm a big fan of annuals because I grew up

reading them and they were always like a big deal. So this one does have that feel of

the annuals of your. The first one is called

Berry the Leeds, which works on a number of levels here. I really, really dig it.

It's written by Dan slot, art by Corey Smith,

Inks and finishes by Terry Pallet,

Colors by Brian Reber, and Letters by Joe Caramonia.

It's got the Enforcers in it.

I love the Enforcers.

They got these like new looks, it's kind of hip.

But the enforcers are back from the dead slash clones, I guess.

But whatever, I'm happy.

You've got Ox, who's the big dude.

Montana is a dude that uses a whip real good and has a cool hat and

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