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!
