Episode 199: The August Previews Catalog

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