Previews will be coming out on Wednesday, June 26th. The deadline for sending in submissions to the Previews Spotlight is the crack of dawn on Saturday, July 6th.
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The earlier you send in submissions, the happier I'll be. It is a bit awkward to not get any of the submissions until the last minute. If you think of more you'd like to talk about after you've sent in submissions, feel free to send more in clips.
Please post which comics you will be sending in submissions for here on this thread. 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.
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If possible, please follow the naming convention of:
p###-[M###-]ItemName-YourName.mp3
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Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pacific
Moderator: JohnMayo
Re: Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pac
Here are the Comic Book Page picks I've just sent off to DCBS:
DARK HORSE
Brain Boy #1
Fred Van Lente (W), R. B. Silva (P), Rob Lean (I), Ego (C), Ariel Olivetti (Cover), and Juan Doe (Variant cover)
On sale Sept 11
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
Ongoing
When the United States Secret Service needs to stop an assassination before the killer’s even decided to buy a gun, they call the world’s most powerful telepath: Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy. But when the secret agent that can read anyone’s mind finds that a powerful psychic network has been hidden from him, Brain Boy begins to wonder whether he knows everything or nothing at all!
• Written by New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente (Archer and Armstrong, G.I. Joe) with art by R. B. Silva (Superboy, Jimmy Olsen)!
DC
BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1
Written by CHIP KIDD, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, MARIS WICKS, JOHN ARCUDI and HOWARD MACKIE
Art by MICHAEL CHO, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, SEAN MURPHY and CHRIS SAMNEE
Cover by MARC SILVESTRI
1:25 Variant cover by TBD
1:200 B&W Variant cover by MARC SILVESTRI
“We Can Be Heroes” Blank variant cover also available.
On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 48 pg, 1 of 6, B&W, $4.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with four covers. Please see the order form for more information.
The legendary, Eisner Award-winning series BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE returns in a brand-new six-issue miniseries featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics’ greatest writers and artists! This first issue kicks off with stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee!
IDW
BLACK DYNAMITE #1 (OF 4)
Brian Ash (w) • Jamal Igle & Sal Buscema (a) • Dave Wilkins (c)
HE’S A POWDER KEG OF BLACK FURY THAT’S ABOUT TO EXPLODE! He’s the biggest, baddest, meanest, most not to be trifled with dude in the history of the universe and he’s coming to comics! A former CIA agent and expert in all disciplines of international (bleep) kicking and a sworn enemy of The Man… he’s BLACK DYNAMITE—and he’s about to walk into the most dangerous journey of his life!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
IMAGE
REALITY CHECK #1
story GLEN BRUNSWICK
art / cover VIKTOR BOGDANOVIC
SEPTEMBER 4
32 PAGES / FC / T+
$2.99
A struggling artist, Willard Penn, scores an unlikely hit with his new comic. The story centers on a hero more concerned with his libido than serving justice. After an unexpected sell out, Willard can't recall anything about his story. That night the book's hero shows up outside Willard's window refusing to return to the comic until he finds true love. Exasperated, Willard is forced to help the lovesick hero meet the perfect woman. But he'll need to hurry because the book's villain, a homicidal maniac, has entered his world as well.
MARVEL
INFINITY HEIST #1 (of 4)
FRANK TIERI (W) • Al Barrionuevo (A)
Cover by Ale Garza
INFINITY TIE-IN
• As the Marvel U prepares for Thanos, Spymaster and some of Marvel’s best baddies decided where there is chaos – there is opportunity!
• It’s the crime of the century and an alien invasion is all the cover they need – so why is BLIZZARD having doubts?
• Frank Tieri and Al Barrionuevo bring you the biggest score – it’s the Infinity Heist!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ASPEN MLT
ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: IRIS #1
Brian Buccellato – Story / Pasquale Qualano – Pencils / John Starr - Colors
An all-new direction for the Executive Assistant that started it all begins right now!
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS is free from the murky past that has haunted her fate and threatened her existence up until this point. Now, with her former master Ching, the mastermind Mazutsu and the CIA a distant memory, Iris will painstakingly discover that the start of a new life for an Executive Assistant can be anything...but free from danger!
Aspen is proud to welcome writer Brian Buccellato (Flash, Black Bat), and penciler Pasquale Qualano (Soulfire: Grace) to the Iris family! Along with colorist John Starr, this incredible creative team is ready to bring you an ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS unlike anything you’ve ever seen before!
ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS #1 is in stores September 4th, 2013!
32pgs, FC $1.00
AVATAR PRESS
GOD IS DEAD #1
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Di Amorim
Cover: Jonathan Hickman, Jacen Burrows,
Like a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic launch issue of GOD IS DEAD is here! East of West and Fantastic Four author JONATHAN HICKMAN launches a fierce new series that stomps where others fear to tread. Mankind has argued over the existence of gods since the dawn of time. In modern eras it’s been fashionable to mock religious believers with taunts of scientific testimony and fact. But when the gods of old begin to reappear on earth and claim the domain of man for their own, the world is thrown into a state of utter anarchy. Now Horus walks the streets of Egypt, Zeus has taken over the Sistine Chapel, and Odin is coordinating the dissection of the earth among the returned deities. Mankind held sway over the world for thousands of years and their hubris over that time has made them powerful but when faced with the divine, can mortal weapons put an end to the second coming of the gods? Available with a Regular cover by Jonathan Hickman, End of Days cover by super-star Jacen Burrows, a premium Iconic cover by Burrows that features a card stock cover and is limited to just 5000 copies, and a Pantheon Order Incentive cover by series artist Di Amorim.
MATURE THEMES
REGULAR—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
END OF DAYS—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
ICONIC—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
CODENAME: ACTION #1 (OF 6)
Writer: Chris Roberson
Art: Jonathan Lau
Covers: Jae Lee (20%), Francesco Francavilla (20%), Jonathan Lau (20%), Johnny Desjardins (20%), Captain Action Spy Cover (20%)
During the height of the Cold War, unknown forces scheme to heat up a global conflict. As key officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain are replaced with doppelgangers, the infiltration threatens to disrupt the precarious state of world affairs. The security of the Free World depends on a young secret agent, one assigned to shape the world’s masked heroes into a force with singular purpose and unyielding resolve!
32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT
BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14
Writer(s): Christos Gage & Joshua Dysart
Artist Name(s): Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover Artist(s): JG Jones, Emanuela Lupacchino, Rafael Grampa, Patrick Zircher
ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM! Acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy, Thunderbolts) joins New York Times best-seller Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong, X-Factor) to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe's most feared team of superhuman operatives!
The world's most deadly soldier has a new assignment. Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION -- the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines -- and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe…and heroes always die trying.
32pgs, FC $3.99
If you guys want to do a clip on one of these, that is fine. Just let me know by posting here on the thread.
DARK HORSE
Brain Boy #1
Fred Van Lente (W), R. B. Silva (P), Rob Lean (I), Ego (C), Ariel Olivetti (Cover), and Juan Doe (Variant cover)
On sale Sept 11
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
Ongoing
When the United States Secret Service needs to stop an assassination before the killer’s even decided to buy a gun, they call the world’s most powerful telepath: Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy. But when the secret agent that can read anyone’s mind finds that a powerful psychic network has been hidden from him, Brain Boy begins to wonder whether he knows everything or nothing at all!
• Written by New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente (Archer and Armstrong, G.I. Joe) with art by R. B. Silva (Superboy, Jimmy Olsen)!
DC
BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1
Written by CHIP KIDD, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, MARIS WICKS, JOHN ARCUDI and HOWARD MACKIE
Art by MICHAEL CHO, NEAL ADAMS, JOE QUINONES, SEAN MURPHY and CHRIS SAMNEE
Cover by MARC SILVESTRI
1:25 Variant cover by TBD
1:200 B&W Variant cover by MARC SILVESTRI
“We Can Be Heroes” Blank variant cover also available.
On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 48 pg, 1 of 6, B&W, $4.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with four covers. Please see the order form for more information.
The legendary, Eisner Award-winning series BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE returns in a brand-new six-issue miniseries featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics’ greatest writers and artists! This first issue kicks off with stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee!
IDW
BLACK DYNAMITE #1 (OF 4)
Brian Ash (w) • Jamal Igle & Sal Buscema (a) • Dave Wilkins (c)
HE’S A POWDER KEG OF BLACK FURY THAT’S ABOUT TO EXPLODE! He’s the biggest, baddest, meanest, most not to be trifled with dude in the history of the universe and he’s coming to comics! A former CIA agent and expert in all disciplines of international (bleep) kicking and a sworn enemy of The Man… he’s BLACK DYNAMITE—and he’s about to walk into the most dangerous journey of his life!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
IMAGE
REALITY CHECK #1
story GLEN BRUNSWICK
art / cover VIKTOR BOGDANOVIC
SEPTEMBER 4
32 PAGES / FC / T+
$2.99
A struggling artist, Willard Penn, scores an unlikely hit with his new comic. The story centers on a hero more concerned with his libido than serving justice. After an unexpected sell out, Willard can't recall anything about his story. That night the book's hero shows up outside Willard's window refusing to return to the comic until he finds true love. Exasperated, Willard is forced to help the lovesick hero meet the perfect woman. But he'll need to hurry because the book's villain, a homicidal maniac, has entered his world as well.
MARVEL
INFINITY HEIST #1 (of 4)
FRANK TIERI (W) • Al Barrionuevo (A)
Cover by Ale Garza
INFINITY TIE-IN
• As the Marvel U prepares for Thanos, Spymaster and some of Marvel’s best baddies decided where there is chaos – there is opportunity!
• It’s the crime of the century and an alien invasion is all the cover they need – so why is BLIZZARD having doubts?
• Frank Tieri and Al Barrionuevo bring you the biggest score – it’s the Infinity Heist!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ASPEN MLT
ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: IRIS #1
Brian Buccellato – Story / Pasquale Qualano – Pencils / John Starr - Colors
An all-new direction for the Executive Assistant that started it all begins right now!
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS is free from the murky past that has haunted her fate and threatened her existence up until this point. Now, with her former master Ching, the mastermind Mazutsu and the CIA a distant memory, Iris will painstakingly discover that the start of a new life for an Executive Assistant can be anything...but free from danger!
Aspen is proud to welcome writer Brian Buccellato (Flash, Black Bat), and penciler Pasquale Qualano (Soulfire: Grace) to the Iris family! Along with colorist John Starr, this incredible creative team is ready to bring you an ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS unlike anything you’ve ever seen before!
ALL NEW EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS #1 is in stores September 4th, 2013!
32pgs, FC $1.00
AVATAR PRESS
GOD IS DEAD #1
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Di Amorim
Cover: Jonathan Hickman, Jacen Burrows,
Like a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic launch issue of GOD IS DEAD is here! East of West and Fantastic Four author JONATHAN HICKMAN launches a fierce new series that stomps where others fear to tread. Mankind has argued over the existence of gods since the dawn of time. In modern eras it’s been fashionable to mock religious believers with taunts of scientific testimony and fact. But when the gods of old begin to reappear on earth and claim the domain of man for their own, the world is thrown into a state of utter anarchy. Now Horus walks the streets of Egypt, Zeus has taken over the Sistine Chapel, and Odin is coordinating the dissection of the earth among the returned deities. Mankind held sway over the world for thousands of years and their hubris over that time has made them powerful but when faced with the divine, can mortal weapons put an end to the second coming of the gods? Available with a Regular cover by Jonathan Hickman, End of Days cover by super-star Jacen Burrows, a premium Iconic cover by Burrows that features a card stock cover and is limited to just 5000 copies, and a Pantheon Order Incentive cover by series artist Di Amorim.
MATURE THEMES
REGULAR—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
END OF DAYS—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
ICONIC—32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
CODENAME: ACTION #1 (OF 6)
Writer: Chris Roberson
Art: Jonathan Lau
Covers: Jae Lee (20%), Francesco Francavilla (20%), Jonathan Lau (20%), Johnny Desjardins (20%), Captain Action Spy Cover (20%)
During the height of the Cold War, unknown forces scheme to heat up a global conflict. As key officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain are replaced with doppelgangers, the infiltration threatens to disrupt the precarious state of world affairs. The security of the Free World depends on a young secret agent, one assigned to shape the world’s masked heroes into a force with singular purpose and unyielding resolve!
32pgs, FC (1 of 6) $3.99
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT
BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14
Writer(s): Christos Gage & Joshua Dysart
Artist Name(s): Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover Artist(s): JG Jones, Emanuela Lupacchino, Rafael Grampa, Patrick Zircher
ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM! Acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy, Thunderbolts) joins New York Times best-seller Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong, X-Factor) to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe's most feared team of superhuman operatives!
The world's most deadly soldier has a new assignment. Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION -- the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines -- and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe…and heroes always die trying.
32pgs, FC $3.99
If you guys want to do a clip on one of these, that is fine. Just let me know by posting here on the thread.
Re: Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pac
FYI, the DCBS order form for July has been posted: http://www.dcbservice.com/downloads.aspx
Re: Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pac
Hey guys! I don't see many people outside of John suggesting what they'll discuss this month. So I'll chime in here. I won't say anything about GOD IS DEAD, as I had thought I might, since John has that is a CBP pick. But I'll contribute clips on the following:
DARK HORSE
- Resident Alien
- Bandette
DC/VERTIGO
- Fairest in All the Land
IDW
- Power Puff Girls #1
- Haunted Horror
IMAGE
- Sex Criminals #1
- Multiple Warheads: Down Fall
- Century West
ARCHAIA
- Cow Boy Vol. 2
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
- Co-Mix
- Daybreak
FIRST SECOND
- Boxers & Saints
- Fairy Tale Comics
SELFMADEHERO
- We Won't See Auschwitz
DARK HORSE
- Resident Alien
- Bandette
DC/VERTIGO
- Fairest in All the Land
IDW
- Power Puff Girls #1
- Haunted Horror
IMAGE
- Sex Criminals #1
- Multiple Warheads: Down Fall
- Century West
ARCHAIA
- Cow Boy Vol. 2
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
- Co-Mix
- Daybreak
FIRST SECOND
- Boxers & Saints
- Fairy Tale Comics
SELFMADEHERO
- We Won't See Auschwitz
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Re: Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pac
...oh, and The Fifth Beatle on page 35.
Re: Previews Spotlight #069 (July -> Sep): July 6th, 5pm pac
jeez, is there anything left 
Daredevil Dark Nights #4
Mind MGMT #15
Batman 23.1 The Joker
Locke & Key 100 Penny Press
Todd, the Ugliest Kid on Earth #5
Hit #1
Super #1
Daredevil Dark Nights #4
Mind MGMT #15
Batman 23.1 The Joker
Locke & Key 100 Penny Press
Todd, the Ugliest Kid on Earth #5
Hit #1
Super #1
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