Episode 195: The July Previews Catalog

It's the first of the month, and that must mean that it's time for the Two Guys with PhDs to take a deep dive into the latest Previews catalog. For the month of July, there's a lot for Andy and Derek to discuss. And in between speculations on solicitation-writing strategies and disagreements on how to pronounce "gyros," the guys pack as much as they can into this almost-two-hour episode. Among the many solicits they highlight are from publishers such as

• Dark Horse Comics - Resident Alien: The Man with No Name #1, Aleister & Adolf, Creatures of the Night, and Ranx
• DC/Vertigo - Doom Patrol #1, Everafter: From the Pages of Fables #1, and Frostbite #1
• IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope, Crazy Is the New Normal, and The Return of the Zombies
• Image Comics - Seven to Eternity #1, Surgeon X #1, She Changed Comics, and Kill Six Billion Demons Book 1
• Aardvark-Vanaheim - Cereus in Hell? #0
• AfterShock - Alters #1
• Ah! Comics - Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol. 1
• Alternative Comics - After Land Vol. 1, The Short Con, and So Buttons
• Archie Comics - Josie and the Pussycats #1
• Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - The Late Bloomer
• BOOM! Studios - Skybourne #1, Klaus, and Abigail and the Snowman
• Candlewick Press - Snow White and Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life
• Drawn & Quarterly - Mooncop, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, and Nicolas
• Dynamite Entertainment - The Great Divide #1
• Fantagraphics Books - Love & Rockets Comics, Vol. IV #1, My Favorite Things Is Monsters, Otherworld Barbara, American Blood, Band for Life, Disillusioned Illusions, Toward a Hot Jew, and The Moolah Tree
• First Second - The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, Mighty Jack Vol. 1, and Varmints
• Kingpin Books - Fossils of Beautiful Souls and The Waltz
• Kodansha Comics - Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition Vol. 3, Attack on Titan Anthology, and Spoof on Titan Vol. 1
• Koyama Press - Cat Rackham
• Locust Moon Press - The Lost Work of Will Eisner
• Magnetic Press/Buno - Light
• Metropolitan Books - The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir Vol. 2: 1984-1985
• NBM - Elvis
• Nobrow Press - Hilda and the Stone Forest
• Oni Press - Oh Joy Sex Toy Vol. 3
• Rebellion/2000AD - Misty
• SelfMadeHero - Becoming Andy Warhol, Ghost Stories of Antiquary Vol. 1, and The Trial of Roger Casement
• Titan Comics - Pacific and Ian Fleming's James Bond: Classic Collection Vol. 1: Dr. No - 1958-1960
• Toon Books - Ape & Armadillo Take Over the World
• Uncivilized Books - Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore
• Valiant Entertainment - X-O Manowar #50 and Britannia #1
• VIZ Media - One-Punch Man Vol. 8 and Goodnight Punpun Vol. 3
• Z2 Comics - Carver: A Paris Story
• University Press of Mississippi - Peter Kuper: Conversations