Episode 234: The April Previews Catalog

It's time to look at the current Previews catalog from Diamond, and for this month Derek is joined by Paul, the new cohost of the monthly Young Readers series. Paul has helped out on earlier Previews shows, and as Andy has jokingly pointed out, on those occasions the episodes have tended to clock in on the longish side. And indeed, that's what happens this week! But the lengthiness of the April Previews show is filled not only with choice solicits, but also with critical commentary, astute observations, and even a couple of soapbox rants. In their highlights from this month's catalog, the guys discuss offerings from:

• Dark Horse Comics - Briggs Land: Lone Wolves #1, Bankshot #1, Calla Cthulhu, and the trade of Dead Inside
• DC/Vertigo - Shade, the Changing Girl, Vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy and a new edition of It's a Bird...
• IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Clue #1, Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point, and Super Weird Heroes: Preposterous but True!
• Image Comics - Crosswind #1, The Divided States of Hysteria #1, Shirtless Bear-Fighter #1, and Tokyo Ghost Deluxe Edition
• AdHouse - Tarantula
• Aftershock Comics - Jimmy's Bastards #1 and Babyteeth #1
• Alternative Comics - King Cat Comics and Stories #77
• Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - Canopy
• Black Mask Studios - The Skeptics and Beautiful Canvas #1
• BOOM! Studios - The Unsound #1
• Cinebook - Alone, Vol. 7: The Lowlands
• Clarion Books - Fish Girl and Lint Boy
• Dynamite Entertainment - Blood Brothers #1
• Dover Publications - Kafkaesque
• Drawn and Quarterly - If Found...Please Return to Elise Gravel
• Fantagraphics Books - A New Low, Ripple: A Predilection for Tina, All Time Comics: Blind Justice #1, and Vague Tales
• Farrah, Straus and Giroux - Four Points, Book 2: Knife's Edge
• First Second - The Big Bad Fox and Making Scents
• Knopf Publishing - Rickety Stitch and Gelatinous Goo, Vol. 1: The Road to Epoli
• Kodansha Comics - Appleseed Alpha, Vol. 1
• Lion Forge - Noble, Vol. 1 #1 and Jazz Maynard, Vol. 1 #1
• Nobrow - Garbage Night
• Oni Press - The Sixth Gun, Book One: Cold Dead Fingers (Square One Edition), Heartthrob, Season Two #1, and Angel City: Town without Pity
• Sunday Press - Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations: Rube Goldberg, Early Comics 1909-1919
• Ten Speed Press - The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up
• Titan Comics - Normandy Gold #1 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-Millennium #1
• Udon Entertainment - Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo and Manga Classics: The Jungle Book
• Valiant Entertainment - Secret Weapons #1
• VIZ Media - Golden Kamuy, Vol. 1, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga, and Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6
• Z2 Comics - Murder Ballads
• Rutgers University Press - Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon