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Episode 199: The August Previews Catalog

Episode 199: The August Previews Catalog

FromThe Comics Alternative


Episode 199: The August Previews Catalog

FromThe Comics Alternative

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Length:
130 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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
Released:
Aug 3, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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A weekly podcast focusing on the world of alternative, independent, and primarily non-superhero comics. (There's nothing wrong with superhero comics. We just want to do something different.) New podcast episodes become available every Wednesday and include reviews of graphic novels and current ongoing series, discussions of upcoming comics, examinations of collected editions, in-depth analyses of a variety of comics texts, and spotlights on various creators and publishers. The Comics Alternative also produces "special feature" programs, such as shows specifically dedicated to creator interviews, webcomics, on-location events, and special non-weekly themes and topics.