The Two Guys with PhDs have been on hiatus for a couple of months -- as they explain in this episode, life matters prevented new episodes -- but now the weekly review show is back...and with a vengeance. On this episode, Gene and Derek look through the October Previews catalog. There's a lot packed into this month's solicits, and the guys have their hands full. But Gene and Derek rise to the occasion and highlight a variety of upcoming titles from publishers such as: Dark Horse Comics - Incognegro, Joe Golem: Occult Detective: Flesh and Blood #1, Inside Moebius, and The Secret Loves of Geeks DC/Vertigo - DC Universe Holiday Special 2017, Imaginary Fiends #2, and Savage Things IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Assassinistas #1, We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust, Screwball: The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny, Four Women, and Comic Book History of Comics: Comics for All #1 Image Comics - Curse Words Holiday Special, Paradiso #1, Sleepless #1, and The Divided States of Hysteria Aardvark-Vanaheim - The Vark Knight Returns #1 Abstract Studios - Terry Moore 25th Anniversary Sketchbook: 8,800 Days of Blondes, Brunettes, and Bozos Aftershock Comics - Monstro Mechanica #1 and Backways #1 Alternative Comics - Nurse Nurse Archie Comics - The Mighty Crusaders #1 Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - How to Be Alive BOOM! Studios - Judas #1, Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville #1, Pizzeria Kamikaze, Grass Kings Vol. 1, and Rust Vol. 4 Conundrum Press - Getting Out of Hope, Mister Morgen, and The Collected Neil the Horse Dynamite Entertainment - Barbarella #1 Drawn and Quarterly - It Don't Come Easy Fantagraphics Books - Love and Rockets #4, Blubber #5, Angels and Magpies: The Love and Rockets Library Vol. 13, Drew Friedman's Chosen People, The Lie and How We Told It, Night Business, and Sparring with Gil Kane: Debating the History and Aesthetics of Comics Humanoids - The Magical Twins Kodansha Comics - Inuyashiki Vols. 9 & 10 and Happiness Vol. 6 NBM - Portugal One Peace Books - Dostoyevsky: The Life and Work Oni Press - You Have Killed Me Sunday Press Books - Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley Titan Comics - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Millennium #1, The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini #2, and Quarry's War #2 Vertical Comics - Blame! Vol. 6 VIZ Media - Shiver, Platinum End Vol. 4, Assassination Classroom Vol. 19, and Golden Kamuy Vol. 3 Hermes Press - Joe Sinnott: Embellishing Life