Episode 164 - The December Previews Catalog - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

As Andy and Derek do at the beginning of every month, they use this first week of December to flip through the latest Previews catalog, highlighting upcoming series and notable new releases that capture their attention. Among the many soon-to-be-released titles they discuss on this week's show are comics from

• Dark Horse Comics - King's Road #1, Neal Adams' Blood, and I Am a Hero Omnibus, Vol. 1


• DC/Vertigo - The Dark and Bloody #1


• IDW Publishing - Wynonna Earp #1, Archie's Americana Box Set, and Haunted Love #1


• Image Comics - Mirror #1, Snow Fall #1, Bloody Mary, and Octopus Pie Vol. 2


• Action Lab Entertainment - The House of Montresor #1


• AfterShock Comics - Second Sight #1


• Alterna Comics - All My Ghosts


• Alternative Comics - Street Dawgz, From Now On, The Sequential Artist's Workshop, and Incomplete Works


• Bergen Street Press - Revenger, Vol. 1


• Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - Future Shock Zero


• BOOM! Studios - Kennel Block Blues #1 and Hit: 1957


• Conundrum Press - Adventures of Drippy the Newsboy, Vol. 2: The Red Drip of Courage and Ramshackle: A Yellowknife Story


• Dynamite Entertainment - Shaft: Imitation of Life #1


• Drawn and Quarterly - Big Kids


• Fantagraphics Books - Powr Mastrs Book 4, Kramer's Ergot 9, Ganges #5, The Meat Cake Bible, and Crickets #5


• First Second - Last Man, Vol. 4: The Show and Sweaterweather and Other Short Stories


• Humanoids - The Ark


• Improper Books - Mulp: Sceptre of the Sun #1 and Porcelain: Bone China


• Last Gasp - As You Were, Vol. 4: Living Situations


• Magnetic Press, Inc. - Golem, Vol. 1


• Oni Press - Wet Moon, Book One: Feeble Wanderings


• Pantheon Books - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye


• 21 Pulp - Hero Hourly


• Viz Media - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2 - Battle Tendencies, Vol. 2 and Assassination Classroom, Vol. 8


• Vanguard Productions - Wally Wood: Jungle Adventures with Jim King and Animan

Also in this episode: the guys enthusiastically welcome new Patreon supporters; complain about reading from PDF files; discuss the increasing weirdness of Neal Adams; speculate on the pronunciation of "Amontillado"; anticipate next year's new SyFy series, Wynonna Earp; pat themselves on the back for getting an endorsement blurb for a major upcoming book; and, of course, give a lot of love to Fantagraphics.

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