This week on the podcast, Andy and Derek discuss the August Previews catalog. Even more importantly, the Two Guys celebrate the four-year anniversary of the podcast! That's right, The Comics Alternative is now four years old, having its first episode published on August 1, 2012. So this episode begins with a brief assessment of the many episodes they've done over the years. But the core of this week's show is a discussing of the solicitations in the latest Previews...and there are a lot of them worth mentioning. So many, in fact, that this is another extra long episode. Among the many upcoming title Derek and Andy highlight are from publishers such as
Dark Horse Comics - Bait, Spell on Wheels #1, and Muhammad Ali
DC/Vertigo - Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye #1, The Lost Boys #1, and The Unwritten: Deluxe Edition, Book One
IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #1, Tom Tomorrow: 25 Years of Tomorrow, The Electric Sublime #1, and Super Weird Heroes
Image Comics - Moonshine #1, Cannibal #1, Thought Bubble Anthology Collection
Abrams ComicArts - Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey
AfterShock - Shipwreck #1
Albatross Funnybooks - Spookhouse #1
Alternative Comics - Cowboys and Insects, Johnny Appleseed, and Reich #1
Arsenal Pulp Press - Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63
Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - We All Wish for Deadly Force
Drawn & Quarterly - A Walk in Eden, Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon, and Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Dynamite Entertainment - James Bond: Hammerhead #1, Betty Boop #1, and Will Eisner’s The Spirit Vol. 1: The Spirit Returns
Fanfare/Ponent Mon - A Distant Neighborhood: Complete
Fantagraphics Books - Looking for America's Dog, Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter, Weathercraft, and More Heroes of the Comics
First Second - Demon, Vol. 1, Science Comics: Volcanoes, and Tetris: The Games People Play
Hill & Wang - Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Best American Comics 2016
Humanoids - El Niño
Insight Comics - Baker Street Four, Vol. 1
Kodansha - Neo Parasite F
NBM - A Treasury of 20th-Century Murder: Black Dahlia
Nobrow Press - How to Survive the North
Odod/Uncivilized Books - Musnet, Vol. 2
Oni Press - Angel City #1 and Heartthrob, Vol. 1
Pantheon - Last Look
SelfMadeHero - Art Masters Series, Vol. 4: Dali and The Return of the Honey Buzzard
Titan Comics - Peepland #1 and Triggerman #1
VIZ Media - Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 9 and Platinum End
