Finally doing a Previews Review.

Since DC and Image managed to put up their July solicits online already, I thought I should sober up long enough to look at the June offerings that were featured in this past Previews. We�ll start with Dark Horse this morning and I�ll do DC tonight or tomorrow, OK?

Dark Horse
The house that Schutz built only has a few new offerings for me. Concrete Volume 6: Strange Armor collects the complete origin of Paul Chadwick’s armored much beloved man-with-a-stone-body and examines the psychological repercussions of having your brain yanked out and placed in another body by aliens.

The second collection of Tycho and Gabe’s online adventures sees print with Penny Arcade Volume 2: Epic Legends Of The Magic Sword Kings. The first book was underordered by pretty much every comics shop and ended up doing gangbusters because, for once, Dark Horse managed to make sure there were enough copies of something in print to meet demand. I’m sure the second book will do the same business, especially with the quality that the first book had.

For those of you not reading the regular BPRD series, there’s a handy trade paperback coming out, collecting The Black Flame storyline. I’ve mentioned my love of this ongoing series a few times here and mock those who say they are Hellboy fans but aren’t picking this up. I mock you, I say!

A collection of Greg Preston’s photographs of comics artists and their studios, The Artist Within looks to be interesting, but not for $40. If you feel like splashing a couple of Jacksons, though, you get a look at Jack Kirby’s workspace, along with Frank Miller’s, the Simonsons, and Moebius among others.

I dunno if I’m actually going to order the first volume of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but that cover is mighty intruiging. Kevin Melrose talks about it here.

Finally, Star Wars nerds can rejoice because there’s Volume One of the Rogue Squardon Omnibus. These are mighty enjoyable comics that feature the awesomeness of Wedge Antilles, which is mighty indeed. Dude blew up the second Death Star – what have you done with your life?