Episode 169 - The January Previews Catalog - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

Welcome to January! As the guys do at the beginning of every month, they use this time to discuss the solicits in the latest Previews catalog. And there's a lot packed into the January issue, starting with a rundown of the 50 titles that will be featured this coming Free Comic Book Day. Gene and Derek are particularly looking forward to the FCBD comics coming out from Fantagraphics, Archie Comics, First Second Books, Image Comics, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, VIZ Media, and Nobrow. After that brief detour, they get into the catalog proper, highlight upcoming releases from publishers such as

• Dark Horse Comics - Death Follows, The Massive: Library Edition, Vol. 1, Bird Boy, Vol. 1: The Sword of Mali Mani, and Trump: The Complete Collection


• DC/Vertigo - Kingdom Come: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition and Suiciders: Kings of HelL.A. #1,


• IDW Publishing - Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 1, Johnny Boo, Book 7, and Paracuellos


• Image Comics - Circuit Breaker #1, The Discipline #1, and The Rattler


• Abrams ComicArts - The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded and Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads


• Alternative Comics - Compulsive Comics, Bartkira, Ohio Is for Sale, and Power Button #0


• American Gothic Press - Lost in Space #1


• Amulet Books - Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Vol. 6: Alamo All-Stars


• Bliss on Tap - Future Proof #10


• BOOM! Studios - Turncoat #1 and The Baker Street Peculiars #1


• Canton Street Press - Eerie Comics #1: Replica Edition


• Devil's Due/First Comics - Delete #1


• Digital Manga - Captain Ken, Vol. 3


• Dynamite Entertainment - Vampirella (Vol. 3) #1


• Drawn and Quarterly - The Birth of Kitaro and Carpet Sweeper Tales


• Fantagraphics Books - Patience and Outer Limits: The Steve Ditko Archives, Vol. 6


• First Second - Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling and The Glorkian Warrior, Vol. 3: The Mustache of Destiny


• NBM - Thoreau: A Sublime Life


• One Peace Books - Belushi: On a Mission from God


• Overground Comics - Oh, Hell #1


• Pantheon Books - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Regular Edition)


• SelfMadeHero - H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth


• Simon & Schuster - The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule


• Titan Comics - Loan Sloane: Delirius 2


• Viz Media - Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 and One-Punch Man, Vol. 5


• Youneek Studios - E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams, Vol. 1


• Time Out - Time Out Shortlist: Gotham and Metropolis Guidebook

All in all, Gene and Derek have a fun time thumbing through the January Previews catalog, making their checklists for comics they want to read, titles they'd like to discuss on the podcast, and creators they want to interview in the coming year.

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