Episode 221: The January Previews Catalog

Happy New Year from the Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics! On this, their first regular episode of 2017, Andy and Derek take their monthly gander at the current Previews catalog. Before they do that, though, they welcome and thank a couple of new Patreon supporters to the Comics Alternative family, including Alla Rull, who becomes the latest of the guys' official Podcast Patrons. Then they jump headlong into the January Previews, highlighting a variety of upcoming titles from both large and small publishers alike. Among the interesting fare found in this month's catalog are offerings from:

• Those participating in Free Comic Book Day and the announcement of their titles!
• Dark Horse Comics - American Gods: Shadows #1, Rebels: These Free and Independent States #1, The Once and Future Queen #1, Jerry and the Joker: Adventures and Comic Art, and Starslayer
• DC/Vertigo - Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Annual, The Doom Patrol Silver Age Omnibus, and Savage Things #1
• IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Lennon: The New York Years, Her Bark and Her Bite, LOAC Essentials, Vol. 10: Dan Dunn, Secret Operative, and Star Hawks, Vol. 1
• Image Comics - Afar, Royal City #1, Extremity #1, Rat Queens #1, Underwinter #1, and The Complete Phonogram
• Abrams ComicArts - The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
• Amulet Books - One Trick Pony
• Archie Comics - The Archies One-Shot
• Avatar Press - Providence #12
• Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - I Thought You Hated Me
• BOOM! Studios - Grass Kings #1, Strange Fruit, and The March of the Crabs, Vol. 2
• Candlewick Press - Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
• Dynamite Entertainment - James Bond: Black Box #1 and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie #1
• Drawn and Quarterly - Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero and Terms and Conditions
• Fantagraphics Books - All Time Comics: Crime Destroyer #1, John Stanley: Giving Life to Little Lulu, Eartha, Fante Bukowski Two, Crickets #6, and Ganges #6
• First Second - California Dreamin': Cass Elliot before The Mamas and the Papas
• House of Anansi Press - In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer
• Kodansha Comics - Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant
• SelfMadeHero - Fun: Spies, Puzzle Solvers, and a Century of Crosswords
• Titan Comics - Anno Dracula #1
• W.W. Norton - Will Eisner's Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
• Quirk Books - The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History