Episode 279: The May Previews Catalog

This week, Paul and Derek take an extensive look at the May Previews catalog. In fact, their look is so extensive that their discussion evolves into an extra-long episode, spanning almost three hours! (Then again, listeners of the podcast probably are used to these long Previews episodes.) The Two Guys begin by sharing listener mail, and then they make a few comments about some of the changes Diamond has made to their catalog over the past couple of months. After that, they jump into the nitty gritty of the episode, highlighting a variety of solicitations that catch their eye this month. Among the many publishers and titles that they focus on are:

• Image Comics - Farmhand #1, Unnatural#1, The New World#1, Outpost Zero#1, and Memoirs of a Very Stable Genius
• Dark Horse Comics - The Quantum Age#1, She Could Fly#1, The Alcoholic: Tenth Anniversary Edition, and Criminy, Vol. 1
• DC Comics/Vertigo - Astro City: Broken Melodyand Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
• IDW Publishing - Real Science Adventures: The Nicodemus Job #1, Assassinistas, Euthanauts#1, Brat Pack, Full Bleed#2, Atomic Empire, and Corto Maltese: Tango
• Dynamite Entertainment - James Bond: Case Files, Vol. 1
• BOOM! Studios - Bone Parish#1, Alice: From Dream to Dream, and Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus
• Aftershock Comics - Relay#1 and Clan Killers#1
• Amaze Ink/Slave Labor Graphics - Let Go
• Archie Comics - Archie Meets Batman '66#1
• Avery Hill Publishing - Permanent Press
• Birdcage Bottom Books - In the Future, We Are Dead
• Drawn and Quarterly - Coyote Doggirland Art Comic
• Fantagraphics Books - I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag 11B, Song of Aglaia, The Best of Witzend, The Kurdles Adventure Magazine#1, The Agency, and Constant Companion
• First Second - The Adventure Zone, Vol. 1and The Dam Keeper, Vol. 2
• Gallery 13 - Bad Girls
• Graphix - Making Friends, Vol. 1and Smiley's Dream Book Picturebook
• Harper Collins Publishers - Action Presidents, Vol 3: Theodore Roosevelt
• Liveright - The Ghost Script
• Lion Forge -A Sea of Love, Herakles, and The Dream of the Butterfly Part 2
• Oni Press - The Long Con#1
• Secret Acres - Little Stranger
• Silver Sprocket - Girls
• Somos Arte, LLC - Ricanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico
• Titan Comics - McCay
• Twomorrows Publishing - American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s
• Uncivilized Books - The Clandestinauts
• VIZ Media - Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction, Vol. 2
• Kodansha Comics - Grand Blue Dreaming, Vol. 1