Episode 182 - The April Previews Catalog - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

It's the first week of April, so that must mean that it's time for the Two Guys with PhDs to look through the latest Previews catalog. This month, Andy Kunka is back for his first Previews show of 2016 -- where has the time gone? -- so Derek helps him to shake off the cobwebs and get down to deep solicitation-reading business. Among the many upcoming releases they highlight are titles from publishers such as

• Dark Horse Comics - Weird Detective #1, Alena, and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Complete Joe Kubert Years


• DC/Vertigo - Wacky Raceland #1, The Sheriff of Babylon, Vol. 1, and Scalped Deluxe Edition, Book Five


• IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Tales from the Darkside #1, Bacchus: Omnibus Edition, Vol. 2, and The Fun Family


• Image Comics - Midnight of the Soul #1, She Wolf #1, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, and Blue Monday, Vol. 1: The Kids Are Alright


• AfterShock - The Revisionist #1


• Albatross Funnybooks - Satan's Sodomy Baby! II and Hillbilly #1


• Alternative Comics - Miss U.S. of Heya, SEC, and Sun Bakery #2


• Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - Elf Cat in Love


• BOOM! Studios - Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #1, Strange Attractors #1, and The Joyners #1


• Canton Street Press - Torchy #1 Flashback Replica and The Senate Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency 


• Conundrum Press - Bird in a Cage and The Ghosts We Know


• Dynamite Entertainment - The Shadow: The Death of Margo Lane #1, Control #1, and James Bond Vol. 1: Vargr


• Drawn and Quarterly - The Birth of Kitaro and Hot Dog Taste Test


• Fantagraphics Books - Wrinkles, Lovf: An Illustrated Vision of a Man Losing His Mind, and Drinky Crow Drinks Again


• Farrah, Straus and Giroux - Compass South


• First Second - Nobody Likes a Goblin: A Picture Book


• Gen Manga - Sorako


• Grand Central Publishing - Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars


• Odod Books/Uncivilized Books - Musnet: The Mouse of Monet


• One Press - The Sixth Gun #50 and Fresh Romance 


• Pegasus Books - The Stranger


• SelfMadeHero - The Shadow of Innsmouth


• Ten Speed Press - Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes


• Titan Comics - Sherlock: A Study in Pink #1


• VIZ Media - Goodnight Punpun Vol. 2


• Z2 Comics - The Sweetness #1


• University of California Press - Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins


• North Atlantic Books - Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary

The guys also discuss the pros and cons of DC and Image doing their own mini-catalogs, the mixed bag of publisher crossovers, and the weirdness surrounding recent book that have been repurposed as limited series. Derek also shares news about how a recent on-location episode of the podcast became a Steve Lieber boon for the manager of Collected Comics in Plano. It's apparently true: there is such a thing as The Comics Alternative bump and the success it can bring you!

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