The Comics Alternative

Episode 186 - The May Previews Catalog


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Hold on to your butts! It's another

substantive, jam-packed episode where the Two Guys look through the
latest Previews catalog. And for May, Andy W.
and Derek see a lot of good stuff, enough to make this a
longer-than-average episode. (Yes, the guys are going into 2+ hours
territory again, but only slightly.) Among the many
solicits Andy and Derek highlight are of titles from
publishers such as

  • Dark Horse Comics - Black
  • Hammer #1 (again!), Angel Catbird, and The Battles of Bridget Lee
  • DC/Vertigo - The
  • Hellblazer: Rebirth #1, American Vampire
    Anthology #2, and Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book
    13
  • IDW Publishing/Top Shelf
  • ROM #1, Snake
    Tales!, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial
    Dater, and Dirty Duck
  • Image Comics
  • - Snotgirl #1, Throwaways #1,
    and The Hunt #1
  • Action Lab - The House of Montresor
  • AfterShock - Captain
  • Kid #1 and Lifespanners #1
  • Alternative Comics - Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and
  • Prose, Terra Flats #1,
    and True Stories #2
  • Archie Comics
  • Betty and Veronica #1 and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  • Big Planet/Retrofit
  • Comics - The Experts
  • BOOM!
  • Studios - Sombra #1 and Adventure
    Time Comics #1
  • Canton Street Press
  • Blood Is the Harvest #16 (Replica
    Edition)
  • Chapterhouse Comics
  • Johnny Canuck: Compendium 1941-1946
  • Dover Publications - The Boys of Sheriff Street
  • Fantagraphics Books
  • Neat Stuff, Garden of Flesh, and Hip Hop Family Tree Book 4:
    1984-1985
  • First Second - Last Man, Vol. 5: The Order
  • Humanoids - I Am Legion and Milo Manara's Gullivera
  • Deluxe 
  • Jet City Comics - Cirque
  • American: Girl over Paris #1
  • Kodansha Comics - Appleseed Alpha, Vol. 1
  • Nobrow Press - Einstein
  • Odod Books/Uncivilized
  • Books - The Whistling Factory
  • Titan Comics
  • Torchwood #1 and The Best of
    B.C.
  • Vanguard Productions
  • The Sensuous Frazetta
  • VIZ Media - Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol.
  • 9
  • Stone Bridge
  • Press - The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and
    Anime

    In addition, Derek and Andy discuss

    other matters, including a correction from last week's publisher spotlight -- Melissa
    Mendes's Lou is actually an Alternative Comics
    publication, not from Hic + Hoc -- and an email of appreciation
    they received from Jon Allen whose book, Ohio Is for Sale, was discussed in
    that same episode. They also talk a little bit about this coming
    weekend's Free Comic Book Day, wonder over the
    new Image+ insert magazine (and Andy is pissed
    that he didn't get one with his copy of Previews),
    poke fun at Millarworld, and point out the truly freaky and
    absolutely unnecessary Big Head Walking
    Dead figures they saw in the catalog.

    ...more
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