April Solicitations

The following are books and comics we are soliciting for the April issue of Previews Adult.  These items are intended to ship in June, or thereabouts.

We have a simple primer on how to pre-order comics.  To locate a comic shop in your area, you should visit CSLS or call toll-free 1.888.266.4226.

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• Product Title: Honeybee Whispers
• Issue/Volume Number: Not Applicable/TPB Graphic Novel
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6 x 8.5, 192pp, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 19.95
• Ship Date: June 2008
• ISBN 13: 978-1-934075-20-3
• Creators€™ Names: Umashika
• Synopsis: 7 intensely erotic stories with submission as the main theme.
  Misato €“ Two security guards become unwitting test subjects for their company€™s aphrodisiac, losing themselves to their secret lesbian desires for one another.
  Cage of the Banquet €“ A corporate spy is slowly transformed into a sex slave by her sadistic captor and his assistant… the girl she was supposed to rescue!

  

• Product Title: Comic AG
• Issue/Volume Number: 85
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6.625 x 10.25, 80pp, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 4.99
• Ship Date: June 2008
• UPC Code:  UPC-A 891463002010 08511
• Creators€™ Names: Anthology
• Synopsis: The comic anthology that features 100% authentic erotic manga direct from Japan.  Every issue showcases 3~4 full length comics from top creators such as Yamatogawa, Tuna Empire, Chataro, and Kaoru Hodumi.

 

• Product Title: Comic AG
• Issue/Volume Number: 86
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6.625 x 10.25, 80pp, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 4.99
• Ship Date: June 2008
• UPC Code:  UPC-A 891463002010 08611
• Creators€™ Names: Anthology
• Synopsis: The comic anthology that features 100% authentic erotic manga direct from Japan.  Every issue showcases 3~4 full length comics from top creators such as Yamatogawa, Tuna Empire, Chataro, and Kaoru Hodumi.

 

• Product Title: Comic AG Mega Bundle 10 (issues 56€“ 60)
• Issue/Volume Number: Contains Comic AG issues 56 ~ 60
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6.625 x 10.25, 80 pages per issue, 400 total pages, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 18.00
• Ship Date: June 2008
• UPC Code:  UPC-A 891463002027 03
• Creators€™ Names: Anthology
• Synopsis: Never tried Comic AG before?  Missing a few issues?  Here€™s your chance to pick up 5 issues of AG for less than the price of 4.  That’s over 350 pages of the most explicit erotic manga from a dozen top creators!  Contains issues 56 ~ 60.

 

• Product Title: Heat – Ring of Destiny
• Issue/Volume Number: Not Applicable/TPB Graphic Novel
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6 x 8.5, 208pp, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 19.95
• Ship Date: In Stock Now
• ISBN 13: 978-1-934075-13-5
• Creators€™ Names: Makoto Fujisaki
• Synopsis: Short stories from the creator of Coed Sexxtacy, with a focus on kinky anal sex.  Secretaries of Section 2 €“ When a young office lady is promoted, little did she know that section two is a harem where her new duty is solely to satisfy the perverted sexual appetite of her boss.

  

• Product Title: Taboo District
• Issue/Volume Number: Not Applicable/TPB Graphic Novel
• Intended Audience (All Ages, Mature Themes, Adult): ADULTS ONLY
• Format (size, pg count, FC/B&W/PC, SC/HC): 6 x 8.5, 184pp, B&W, SC
• Retail Price: 19.95
• Ship Date: In Stock Now
• ISBN 13: 978-1-934075-03-6
• Creators€™ Names: Yuuki
• Synopsis: Collects 8 sizzling short stories. €œCaptured€ – an inexperienced female police officer becomes the sexual captive of two curious delinquents.  €œCareer Counsel Room€ – Desperate to get into a good school, Manami is willing to do anything for a recommendation from her counselor€¦

  

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Remember, we publish two new issues of Comic AG every month.  (Well, sometimes it’s 1 issue one month, and three issues the next as we try to catch up.)  So if you don’t want to miss anything, you have to be sure to order both.  Diamond has developed a habit of listing them together…

Honeybee Whispers is our new trade for June.  If you haven’t been catching up on these stories in Comic AG, Umashika has a very mature, sensual style, and two of the stories feature great lesbian sex scenes.  Not a foot fetishist myself, but Cage of the Banquet has a really great licking scene, imo.

Those of you who have the original Japanese edition of the book may notice that the cover is different.  Normally we try to get as close to the Japanese versions as possible, but in this case the original cover art was lost, so Umashika sensei has provided new art for us to print.  Not a bad deal… since I like the new art better.

Heat and Taboo District are both “solicited again” books.  Comic AG bundle is 5 issues in one, which we offer because retailers usually find it impossible to reorder the comics individually through Diamond.  And FYI to other small pubs, the bundle is also a good way to circumvent the pesky minimum dollar order rule, and makes the issue of barcoding old books that much more manageable.  I R smart baboon.