It's the first of the month, so it's time to look at the latest Previews catalog! What's more, this is Sterg's very first Previewsshow, and Derek honors this occasion with much fanfare. As listeners have come to expect from the monthly Previews shows, this episode goes long. In fact, it goes extra long, and in many ways this becomes a trial by fire for Sterg as a new cohost. But he rises to the occasion, providing solid and tireless recommendations of upcoming titles. For October, the Two Guys with PhDs discuss a variety of  publishers and titles such as:

• Image Comics - Die #1, Prodigy#1, Hardcore#1, and Street Angel Pentathlon

Dark Horse Comics - LaGuardia#1, Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise#1, Mind MGMT Omnibus, Vol. 1, War Bears, EC Archives: Piracy, and Berserk: Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

DC Comics/Vertigo - Goddess Mode #1, and Detective Comics before Batman

IDW Publishing - Rocketeer Reborn#1, Belzebubs, and Ye

Dynamite Entertainment - Mars Attacks#3

BOOM! Studios - Klaus and the Crying Snowman#1, The Great Wiz and the Ruckus, Waves, Wizard Beach#1, and Feathers

Albatross Funnybooks - Mega Ghost#1

Black Mask Studios: Emmie-X: All Systems Go#1

Chapterhouse Publishing - Die Kitty Die!: Heaven and Hell#3

Devils Due/1First Comics - Love Town#1

Drawn and Quarterly - This Woman's Work, Cave-In, and Worn Tuff Elbow#2

Fantagraphics Books - Memorabilia, Ink and Anguish: A Jay Lynch Anthology, The Sea, Vanishing Act, Now#5, and In Christ There Is No East or West

Feral House - Hi Jax and Hi Jinx: Life's a Pitch, and Then You Live Forever

First Second - Science Comics: Polar Bears

Lion Forge - Infinity 8, Vol. 3#2

Oni Press - The Long Con, Vol. 1, Long Road to Liquor City, and Guerrillas: Omnibus Edition

Papercutz/Super Genius - Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars Omnibus

Silver Sprocket - Nothing Nice to Say

Sourcebooks - Illegal

Starburns Industries Press - Fantasmagoria Holiday Special 2018

Titan Comics - Breakneck#1, Tyler Cross: Angola, and The Night

Vanguard Productions - The Wally Wood Christmas Book

VIZ Media - We Never Learn, Vol. 1, Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition, and 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2

Yen Press - Mirai

Dempa Books - An Invitation from a Crab

Kodansha Comics - Quintessential Quintuplets, Vol. 1

Seven Seas Entertainment - I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Vol. 1

Vertical Comics - Pop Team Epic, Second Season