Previews Spotlight #102 (Apr->Jun) Deadline: Sat AM, Apr 9

[JohnMayo]

Previews will be coming out on Wednesday, March 30th. The deadline for sending in submissions to the Previews Spotlight is the crack of dawn on Saturday, April 9th.

Please post which comics you will be sending in submissions for here on this thread with the full title, issue number and publisher. That way we can reduce the number of duplicate submissions and maximize the number of different items that are covered. If someone has already posted that they will be covering something you are passionate about discussing, we are okay with more than one submission for the item but want that to be the exceptional case.

Remember: Anyone can send in a short audio clip talking about any book in the upcoming Previews (or slated for release around that same time). This includes creators, publishers and other people directly involved in the project. This is your chance to promote items, including ones you have worked on.

The email address to send the clips to is TheGuys@ComicBookPage.com.

The Previews Spotlight is released as a mono podcast, not stereo. If you record in stereo, I'll convert it to a mono record by dropping one of the tracks.

The Comic Book Page podcast is an all-ages podcast and is profanity free. I will have to edit out any profanity in the clips, including any unfortunately named comic book titles. If that section of the clip can't be easily removed I will have to replace the profanity with the DTMF tones for "profanity". In addition to this being my personal stand on profanity, it is also an iTunes policy: If your audio includes explicit language, we require you to set the explicit tag- regardless of why it is spoken (title of comic, name of street, etc.)

Please follow the naming convention of:
p###-[M###-]ItemName-YourName.mp3.

p###: the page number in Previews (ex: an item on page 80 would start with p080-)
Note that the "p" is lowercase. I use the name of the clip to sort the tracks in Audacity and it sorts all of lowercase letters before any of the uppercase letters. Obviously, I can fix this part of the filename if needed. If you don't know the page number, that is fine. Just use "p000-" instead and I'll look it up. Just use "p000-" for this part of the filename. If it is something not in Previews, use 888 for the page number and be sure to include a URL or whatever information might be needed to get the item for I can include that in the show notes if needed.
M###: If the item is in the Marvel Previews, use the first even page number in Previews for Marvel with the page number in the Marvel Previews. If the item is not in the Marvel Previews, skip the M###- part of the file naming convention.
ItemName: This is the name of the item. We need is enough to determine which item it is.The more complete this is, the better. Capitalize the first letter of each word and don't include spaces or punctuation. For example, "WolverineAndTheXMen1".
YourName: All we need here is enough to properly credit you in the show notes.

I've got some automation around the episode assembly process which uses the dashes to parse the filenames. Please do not include spaces in the filename. Not all of the tools I use to prepare the clips for the episode handle spaces or other odd things in filenames gracefully.

If you have a link you'd like me to include in the show notes, include both your name and the link it in the email to me and I'll add it to the system I use for doing the show notes.

The episode covers items in the order they are in Previews so listeners can follow along in Previews if they want to.

Useful Links
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Tips on how to record a clip can be found here.

Online solicitations can be found at Comic Book Resources for Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Image and Marvel. First Comics News is also a great source for the online solicitations.

Dark Horse:
DC:
IDW:
Image:
Marvel:

451 Media Group:
AC Comics:
Aftershock Comics:
American Gothic Press:
Archie/Dark Circle:
Aspen:
Avatar Comics:
Benitez Comics:
Bongo Comics:
BOOM!/Archaia:
Boundless Comics:
Broadsword Comics:
Chapterhouse Comics:
ComixTribe:
Darby Pop Publishing:
Devil's Due/1First Comics:
Dynamite Entertainment:
Legendary Comics:
Magnetic Press:
Mike Wolfer Entertainment:
Oni Press:
Valiant:



If you see online solicitations for any of the publishers that aren't linked to here in the thread, please post the link. I'll copy them into this list when I get the chance.

[JohnMayo]

I will be hosting the monthly Comic Book Page Previews teleconference on Saturday, April 2nd at 5pm Pacific, 7pm Central and 8pm Eastern.

We'll be discussing the items in the April Previews catalog and whatever else comes up.

You are welcome to join in at any time and stay for a long or short as you want.

All you have to do to join the teleconference is to send me a chat message on Skype requesting to be added in.

My Skype handle is TheJohnMayo.

[MrAloha]

Dear Gang,

Here is the first solicit for June 2016.

Aspen Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=192161

Aloha!

[bralinator]

I'm currently interested in the following:

Marvel
Star Wars: Han Solo #1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1

Dark Horse
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: A Complete Guide to the Classic Animated Adventures

Also going to try to add the following:
Monstress tpb
Cryptocracy #1
Tarzan Complete Joe Kubert Years tpb

[drew]

I'm currently interested in the following:

Star Wars: Han Solo #1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1

oooh - i look forward to the musical bumper

[bralinator]

oooh - i look forward to the musical bumper

You got it Drew


And here are some of the latest solicits I've found (fixed)

451 Media
Aftershock Comics
Archie Comics
Aspen Comics
Bongo Comics
BOOM! Studios
Chapterhouse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
DC Comics (just listings)
Image Comics
Marvel Comics
ONI Press
Valiant Comics (warning crash-prone newsarama link

[MrAloha]

And here are the Image Comics solicitations for June 2016

Image Comics 2016

Dear Bralinator,

I'm sorry to inform you but these Image solicits for April 2016. I tripled checked it to make sure. And I remembered Todd sent in a clip for The Fix #1 (Nick Spencer-Writer and Steve Lieber-Artist) from the Spotlight Episode #100.

Seriously, if I see the Image solicits for June 2016, I'll let you know and you can post it on the forum.

I'm sorry about that,
Jason

[MrAloha]

I'm currently interested in the following:

Star Wars: Han Solo #1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1

oooh - i look forward to the musical bumper

Bralinator,

I'm also looking forward to your musical bumpers and movie clips.

It's so cool when you add the music or a movie clip on your clips.

I'm toying around with the idea of doing musical bumpers on the Dark Horse July solicit for Aliens: Defiance. It's to mark Aliens' 30th Anniversary (July 18, 2016). This classic came out on July 18, 1986.

Aloha!

[bralinator]

Dear Bralinator,

I'm sorry to inform you but these Image solicits for April 2016. I tripled checked it to make sure. And I remembered Todd sent in a clip for The Fix #1 (Nick Spencer-Writer and Steve Lieber-Artist) from the Spotlight Episode #100.

Seriously, if I see the Image solicits for June 2016, I'll let you know and you can post it on the forum.

I'm sorry about that,
Jason

You are correct and thanks for double-checking that, Jason. I have now fixed it.

Here are the Image Comics solicitations for June 2016. Image wants you to sign up to their digital service now to see solicits, but this kind comics fan has made an album. I am sure it will makes its way to First Comics News later this week.

Image Comics 2016

[MrAloha]

You are correct and thanks for double-checking that, Jason. I have now fixed it.

Here are the Image Comics solicitations for June 2016. Image wants you to sign up to their digital service now to see solicits, but this kind comics fan has made an album. I am sure it will makes its way to First Comics News later this week.

Image Comics 2016

Dear Bralinator,

Thank you for posting the June solicits for Image Comics.

UPDATED Here are my picks for the June solicits:

DC Comics: BATMAN #1 by TOM KING
Art and cover by DAVID FINCH and MATT BANNING
(I'm going to record this clip at Dragon's Lair.)

Image Comics: Paper Girls #6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
NEW STORY ARC!

Aloha!

[bralinator]

Dear Bralinator,

Thank you for posting the June solicits for Image Comics.

Here is my first pick:

Image Comics: Paper Girls #6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
NEW STORY ARC!

Aloha!

My pleasure, Jason. I also edited my original post to include the latest solicit from Dark Horse. I will return to that post to add any others as I find find them other than any that you post.

[Joe3c]

Dark Horse is up. If the price listed is correct, that Joe Kubert Tarzan book is a steal!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... icitations

[MrAloha]

Dark Horse is up.

Dear Joe,

Thank you for posting the Dark Horse solicits for June.

Aloha!

[doctormo]

CBR has posted Marvel's solicits for June - http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... icitations

Also, I plan on providing clips for Lazarus #22 and Jupiter's Legacy Vol 2 #1 (both from Image).

[Joe3c]

Here's Boom: http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... icitations

And Oni: http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... icitations

Valiant: http://www.newsarama.com/28510-valiant- ... tions.html