Previews Spotlight #108 (Oct->Dec) Deadline: Sat AM, Oct 8

[JohnMayo]

Previews will be coming out on Wednesday, September 28th. The deadline for sending in submissions to the Previews Spotlight is the crack of dawn on Saturday, October 8th.

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, "AllNewAllDifferentButSomehowStillNotParticularlyDifferentFromWhatHasGoneBeforeUncannyTitle1".
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]

Dear Gang,

Before we know it, Christmas will be here too soon.
Here are a couple of December's solicitations. They are:

Coffin Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/coffin-c ... citations/

Dark Horse: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/942-2/


Aloha!

[MrAloha]

Dear Gang,

Here are more December Solicitations.
They are:

Avatar: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/1766-2/

Coffin Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/coffin-c ... citations/

DC Comics: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/dc-comic ... citations/
"Yay! The first major event after Rebirth: JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD (6 issue mini series, 40 pages each issue, $4.99 an issue, Release dates: 12/21 for #1 and 12/28 for #2). Just in time for Christmas."
Sorry guys. That was my conscious again.

Seriously, I'll sit this one out because it looks like these issues may be coming out on a weekly basis for $5 a pop. I know DC maybe using this to promote the Justice League movie coming out next year and promote the Suicide Squad Blu-Ray when it comes out around Christmas time by doing this crossover. It's a shame that this event solicits don't refer to what happened in Rebirth.

Valiant: http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/valiant- ... citations/

If you guys see anymore December Solicits, please feel free to post them.

Here are my clips for Previews Spotlight #108.
They are:

DC Comics: Deathstroke Action Figure (from TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT). It is resolicited for April 2017.

Aloha!

[IanG]

Image Comics December 2016 Solicitations (First Comics)

Motor Crush looks cool. I will have to pick that one up.

MOTOR CRUSH #1
(W) Brendan Fletcher & Various (A) Babs Tarr, Cameron Stewart (CA) Babs Tarr
The team behind the critically acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series! By day, Domino Swift competes for fame and fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession of a rare, valuable contraband: an engine-boosting “machine narcotic” known as Crush.

Featuring Part One of ISOLA: PROLOGUE by BRENDEN FLETCHER and KARL KERSCHL!
$3.99

[bralinator]

Here are some more December solicits I found. Still looking for a few stragglers...

Aardvark Vanaheim
Aftershock Comics
American Gothic Press
American Mythology Productions
Archie Comics
Aspen Comics
Avatar Press
Bongo Comics
BOOM! Studios
Chapterhouse
Crusade Entertainment
Darby Pop Publishing
Dark Circle Comics
Devil's Due/1First Comics
Dynamite Entertainment
IDW Publishing
Magnetic Press
Marvel Comics
Moonstone Comics
Oni Press
Spacegoat Publishing
Titan Comics
Z2 Comics

And if you can't get your hands on a print copy of the Previews catalog, get a downloadable copy of it here for free.

[bralinator]

I'm looking at possibly recording solicits for the following:

Cyborg #6 (p089)
Nova #1 (m018)
Hulk #1 (m012)
Star Wars: Classified #1 (m095)
Sherlock a Study in Pink TPB (p413)
Locke & Key: Small World (p154)
Red Sonja #0 (p324)
Wonder Woman /Bionic Woman ’77 #1 (p322)

[IanG]

Thanks Bralinator for the October Previews Catalog PDF link. I use this to read Previews until I get my hard copy from DCBS.

Here's a link to just the order form which can be another way to scan for comic books in Previews each month.

Previews Customer Order Form - October 2016

[IanG]

I'm going to grab the following as a clip for Previews Spotlight.

p.297 Klaus and the Witch of Winter #1 (Boom! Studios)

[MrAloha]

Image Comics December 2016 Solicitations (First Comics)

Dear Ian,

Thank you for posting the Image solicitations.

Aloha!

[MrAloha]

Dear Gang,

These are my picks for episode #108.
They are:

1) Archie Comics: After Life with Archie #7
2) DC Comics: DC Rebirth Holiday Special #1
(I'll record this clip at Dragon's Lair)
3) DC Comics: Deathstroke Action Figure (from TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT). It is resolicited for April 2017.
4) Image: Surgeon X #4
(I'll record this clip at Dragon's Lair)
5) Marvel: Doctor Strange/Punisher #1(of4)
(I'll record this clip at Dragon's Lair)

Aloha!

[Thedoh]

I would like to submit clips this month for:

Aquaman 12-13
Dark Knight III- Master Race 7
Deadly Class 25
Incredible Hulk Epic Collection- Future Imperfect

Thanks! -TODD

[MichaelCastle]

I will be submitting clips for the following titles
DC Comics Justice League vs Suicide Squad 1-2 page 78
Image Comics Motor Crush #1 page 192
Moonshine #3 page 214
Seven to Eternity #4 page 219
Aftershock Comics Rough Riders volume 1 page 258
Scout Comics Once Our Land TP page 394
Marvel Comics U.S. Avengers #1 page 8
Hawkeye #1 page 14

Really love Previews Spotlight episodes I look forward to hearing everyone's picks!

[drew]

Comics for Fun and Profit picks

Nightwing #10
Klaus #1

[SupermanFan]

Dark Horse Comics:
BLACK HAMMER #6
USAGI YOJIMBO #160

DC Comics:
ACTION COMICS #'s 969 & 970
SUPERMAN #'s 12 & 13
SUPERWOMAN #4

Vertigo/DC:
ASTRO CITY #41

Image Comics:
INVINCIBLE #134

Icon/Marvel:
POWERS #9

Abstract Studios:
MOTOR GIRL #2

[victorvondoom]

Planning on submitting clips for these issues
Conan The Slayer #6 Dark Horse - page 51
GI Joe A Real American Hero #235 Idw - page 164
Red Sonja #0 Dynamite - page 324
Evil Dead 2: A Merry Deadite X-Mas One Shot Space Goat Publishing - page 397

-Jerry