Episode 286: The July Previews Catalog - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

Happy Independence Day! It's the beginning of the month, so it's time for another look at the latest Previewscatalog. On this episode, Paul and Derek highlight many of the upcoming titles solicited in July. And this is a long episode, running for just over 3 hours and 20 minutes, so strap in and get ready for a long ride.

First, they begin the episode by sharing a variety of listener correspondences they've received over the past week...and there are a lot of them. Then they jump into the July Previews. They start with the offerings for this October's Halloween ComicFest, and then they turn to the catalog proper. Among the many publishers and titles that they focus on are:

• Image Comics - Man-Eaters#1, MCMLXXV#1, Cemetery Beach#1, Green Monk: Blood of the Martyrs, Me the People, and My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
• Dark Horse Comics - Stranger Things#1, Mystery Science Theater 3000#1, Olivia Twist#1, War Bears#1, Gamma#1, Disney MobyDick, Joe Golem: The Drowning City#1, and I Am a Hero, Vol. 8
• DC Comics/Vertigo - Border Town#1, Cover#1, The Dreaming#1, House of Whispers#1, United States vs. Murder, Inc.#1, John Constantine: Hellblazer - 30th Anniversary Edition, and Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil, Deluxe Edition
• IDW Publishing - Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive#1 and From Hell: Master Edition#1
• Marvel Comics - X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis
• Dynamite Entertainment - James Bond: Origin#1
• BOOM! Studios - Low Road West#1, Welcome to Wanderland#1, Pandora's Legacy, and Form of a Question
• Abstract Studios - Strangers in Paradise XXV, Vol. 1: The Chase
• Aftershock Comics - Moth and Whisper#1
• Ahoy Comics - High Heaven#1
• Albatross Funnybooks - Spookhouse2 #1-4
• Alternative Comics - True Stories#4
• Amigo Comics - The Tree That Grew on My Walland Welcome Home
• Archie Comics - Archie 1941#1
• Arthur A. Levine Books - Tales from the Inner City
• Avery Hill Publishing - The Great North Wood
• Bloomsbury - The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
• Cinebook - Alone, Vol. 9: Before the Midnight Child
• Conundrum Press - 100 Days in Uranium City
• Dead Reckoning - The Best of Don Winslow of the Navy, Vol. 1and Trench Dogs
• Drawn and Quarterly - Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet Box Set, Blame This on the Boogie, and Fielder#1
• Fantagraphics Books - Now: The New Comics Anthology#4, Mort Cinder, Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe, Bastard, Twists of Fate, and Blammo#10
• First Second - The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, Vol. 2: Monster Mall, Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship behind a Musical Revolution, The Nameless City, Vol. 3: The Divided Earth, and Science Comics: The Solar System
• Gallery 13 - Other People
• Grand Central Publishing - Rx: A Graphic Memoir
• Graphix - Amulet, Vol. 8: Supernova
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - The Best American Comics 2018and The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees
• Humanoids -Kabul Disco, Vol. 2: How I Managed Not to Get Addicted to Opium in Afghanistanand Marilyn's Monsters
• Koyama Press - Bratand Chlorine Gardens
• Learner Publishing Group - My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
• Lion Forge - Upgrade Soul, Curtain Call, Fraternity, and Rolled and Told
• Liveright - Home after Dark
• NBM - The Silent Invasion, Vol. 1
• Oni Press - Drawn to Sex: The Basics
• Pegasus - H.P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness
• Retrofit Comics - All the Sad Songs
• Secret Acres - Flocks
• SelfMadeHero - I Feel Machineand One Two Three Four Ramones
• Silver Sprocket - F*ck Off Squad
• Toon Books - 3 x 4 and We Are All Me
• University Press of Mississippi - Gender and the Superhero Narrative
• W.W. Norton - Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
• VIZ Media - Dr. Stone, Vol. 1and 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1
• Kodansha Comics - Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Networkand Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Vol. 1
• Pantheon Books - My Brother's Husband, Vol. 2
• Seven Seas Entertainment - Devilman: The Classic Collection, Vol. 2and Space Battleship Yamato: The Classic Collection
• Vertical Comics - After the Rain, Vol. 1and The Delinquent Housewife!, Vol. 1

 

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