Episode 195: The July Previews Catalog - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal
from 2016-07-06T10:57:02
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It's the first of the month, and that must mean that it's time for the Two Guys with PhDs to take a deep dive into the latest Previews catalog. For the month of July, there's a lot for Andy and Derek to discuss. And in between speculations on solicitation-writing strategies and disagreements on how to pronounce "gyros," the guys pack as much as they can into this almost-two-hour episode. Among the many solicits they highlight are from publishers such as
- Dark Horse Comics - Resident Alien: The Man with No Name #1, Aleister & Adolf, Creatures of the Night, and Ranx
- DC/Vertigo - Doom Patrol #1, Everafter: From the Pages of Fables #1, and Frostbite #1
- IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope, Crazy Is the New Normal, and The Return of the Zombies
- Image Comics - Seven to Eternity #1, Surgeon X #1, She Changed Comics, and Kill Six Billion Demons Book 1
- Aardvark-Vanaheim - Cereus in Hell? #0
- AfterShock - Alters #1
- Ah! Comics - Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol. 1
- Alternative Comics - After Land Vol. 1, The Short Con, and So Buttons
- Archie Comics - Josie and the Pussycats #1
- Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - The Late Bloomer
- BOOM! Studios - Skybourne #1, Klaus, and Abigail and the Snowman
- Candlewick Press - Snow White and Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life
- Drawn & Quarterly - Mooncop, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, and Nicolas
- Dynamite Entertainment - The Great Divide #1
- Fantagraphics Books - Love & Rockets Comics, Vol. IV #1, My Favorite Things Is Monsters, Otherworld Barbara, American Blood, Band for Life, Disillusioned Illusions, Toward a Hot Jew, and The Moolah Tree
- First Second - The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, Mighty Jack Vol. 1, and Varmints
- Kingpin Books - Fossils of Beautiful Souls and The Waltz
- Kodansha Comics - Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition Vol. 3, Attack on Titan Anthology, and Spoof on Titan Vol. 1
- Koyama Press - Cat Rackham
- Locust Moon Press - The Lost Work of Will Eisner
- Magnetic Press/Buno - Light
- Metropolitan Books - The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir Vol. 2: 1984-1985
- NBM - Elvis
- Nobrow Press - Hilda and the Stone Forest
- Oni Press - Oh Joy Sex Toy Vol. 3
- Rebellion/2000AD - Misty
- SelfMadeHero - Becoming Andy Warhol, Ghost Stories of Antiquary Vol. 1, and The Trial of Roger Casement
- Titan Comics - Pacific and Ian Fleming's James Bond: Classic Collection Vol. 1: Dr. No - 1958-1960
- Toon Books - Ape & Armadillo Take Over the World
- Uncivilized Books - Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore
- Valiant Entertainment - X-O Manowar #50 and Britannia #1
- VIZ Media - One-Punch Man Vol. 8 and Goodnight Punpun Vol. 3
- Z2 Comics - Carver: A Paris Story
- University Press of Mississippi - Peter Kuper: Conversations
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