Previews Spotlight #103 (May->Jul) Deadline: Sat AM, May 7

[JohnMayo]

Previews will be coming out on Wednesday, April 27th. The deadline for sending in submissions to the Previews Spotlight is the crack of dawn on Saturday, May 7th.

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.

If you see online solicitations for any of the publishers that aren't linked to here in the thread, please post the link.

[MrAloha]

Updated on 5/4/16

Dear Gang,

Here are the July solicitations.

Dark Horse Comic: http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... ack-hammer.

Image Comics: http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... icitations

Moonstone Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=194592

Here are my picks for the Previews Spotlight #103.
They are:

1) Image: PAPER GIRLS #7
by Brian K. Vaughan (W) and Cliff Chiang (A)
(I'll be recording this clip from Dragon's Lair in Hawaii)

2) Marvel Comics: Civil War 2 #3 & #4
CIVIL WAR II #3 (OF 7)
Brian Michael Bendis(W) • David Marquez (A)

3) Marvel Comics: Silver Surfer #6 (#200)
Dan Slott (W) Michael Allred (A/C)
SILVER SURFER #200!
WHAT! Didn't I do this last month?!?
It's under Marvel Comics' July Solicitations.

4) Archie Comics: Betty & Veronica #1
Adam Hughes (W & A)
Adam Hughes rekindles that old debate: Who do you like Betty or Veronica?

5) IDW: ROM #1

6) Valiant: Faith Vol.1 TPB: Hollywood & Vine
Jody Houser (W) and Francis Portela & Marguerite Sauvage

7) Dragon's Lair at the Amazing Hawaii Comic Con

Shout Out Clip

Aloha!

[bralinator]

I think I did a Previews clip for Jeff Lemire's 'Black Hammer' so since it is being resolicited, I will do that one again.

My picks this month*:

BOOM! Studios
Kong of Skull Island #1

Kaboom Comics
Adventure Time Comics #1

Dark Horse
Black Hammer #1

Dynamite
Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man #1

DC
Superman: Lois & Clark tpb

IDW
ROM #1

Image
Mechanism #1

*to be edited as the month progresses.

[MrAloha]

Dear Gang,

Here are a couple more solicitations for July.
They are:

Aspen Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=205260

DC Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=204987

For you Nightwing fans, the DC July solicits has Nightwing: Rebirth and Nightwing #1.
(I'm making it clear, I'm not submitting a clip for this series.)

If anyone sees other solicitations, please post them.

Aloha!

[Joe3c]

Here's Marvel: http://www.newsarama.com/28908-marvel-c ... tions.html

[GABE!]

Dear Gang,

Here are a couple more solicitations for July.
They are:

Aspen Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=205260

DC Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=204987

For you Nightwing fans, the DC July solicits has Nightwing: Rebirth and Nightwing #1.
(I'm making it clear, I'm not submitting a clip for this series.)

If anyone sees other solicitations, please post them.

Aloha!

Im so happy to see Nightwing return. I enjoyed Grayson, but something didn't feel right about not having Dick in the Nightwing persona

[Joe3c]

Archie: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=202006

[MrAloha]

Archie: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=202006

Dear Joe,

Thank you for posting the Archie and Marvel July Solicitations.

Aloha

[bralinator]

Here's a few more guys!

451 Media
Aftershock Comics
American Gothic Press
American Mythology
Avatar Press
BOOM! Studios
Bongo Comics
Chapterhouse Comics
Devil's Due/1First Comics
Dynamite Entertainment
IDW
Legendary Comics
Oni Press
Valiant Comics

[Joe3c]

My picks:

IDW:
Star Trek #59

Marvel
Mockingbird #5

[JohnMayo]

The ComicBookPage picks of the month are:

DARK HORSE
-GROO: FRAY OF THE GODS #1
DC
-NIGHTWING #1
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
-MIRACULOUS: TALES OF LADY BUG AND CAT NOIR VOLUME 1 TP
AFTERSHOCK COMICS
-CAPTAIN KID #1
-LIFESPANNERS #1
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
-THE LONE RANGER / GREEN HORNET #1 (OF 6)
-THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN: FALL OF MAN #1 (OF 5)
TITAN COMICS
-TORCHWOOD #1
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT
-FAITH #1

[Joe3c]

I don't think anyone has posted Titan,

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/04/20/ ... july-2016/

[Thedoh]

I would like to offer the following on this months podcast:

American Vampire Anthology #2
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Omnibus
Machine Man Complete Collection
Doctor Strange #10
Tarzan on Film HC

Thanks! -TODD

[drew]

Turns out Image is in the previews catalog as well as there own insert-FYI

[MrAloha]

IDW
ROM #1

Dear Bralinator,

May I ask if I can submit a clip on ROM #1 along with your clip?
(And it is okay to say no. Seriously, No hard feelings.)

I wanted to focus my clip on Bill Mantlo, the original ROM writer for Marvel back in the late Seventies. I remember his story from the old Wizard Magazine of how he moved up the ranks at Marvel to become a writer, how he turned a toy that Time Magazine called the worst toy of, I think, 1979 (Yes! I am dating myself) into a 60 issue run, and his tragic accident in 1992 that left him with a severe head trauma.

And if you want to cover this in your clip, please feel free to do so. I think to me, it's about remembering the man, the writer, who brought ROM to the comics.

Just let me know.

Aloha!