Completed Variant Sets 23 — September 16, 2025

These are the only covers that were a set in last week’s new comics. Well, it’s not an official set since Luciano Vecchio did a bunch of covers around this time. But I just wanted these two.

It feels weird to end a CVSet post with only two covers, but hopefully this will be closer to the amount of covers I have in these posts so that it’s not a huge bunch each time. But if that happens again and they build up, then I’ll just have to have the larger posts again. But it does feel great to be caught up after 6 months of sorting almost 3 years of variants.

Completed Variant Sets 22 — September 16, 2025

This set is just gorgeous. That’s because Rahzzah is the cover artist.

The wraparound!

The whole set!

Speaking of gorgeous sets, here’s another! This set, of course, by Jenny Frison. this was in celebration of International Women’s Day. I think my first Frison covers were of Diana, so it’s always nice to see her draw Diana again.

Another lovely Momoko set! And another set where I thought there was more than three covers. Since Tiger Division has a larger group, I thought it would be a cover for each character.

Various artists helped bring about the Summer of Superman in celebration of the movie having been released in July. These covers show various characters dressed in versions of Superman’s costume in their own style. I thought it was each character having his powers, but they all seem to have their own powers on all the covers.

The final set of this big sorting catch-up! A wonderful InHyuk Lee pair!

Now, this is the end of the big catch-up. But since I was delayed, I have one more set to post about. From now on (unless I fall behind again), when I get new weeks of comics, I will sort them on the Sunday (or so) flyer I get them. And thus, any sets that complete during that time will be posted as a Completed Variant Sets post instead of these huge posts.

Completed Variant Sets 21 — September 16, 2025

These main covers were all in polybags, so it was nice to actually see the covers! E.M. Gist is such a great artist! the first cover is actually a variant of the first issue, but I think I saw that variant before I saw the main cover. I always like it the best out of this set.

The set.

This next set is by Mark Brooks. Before this set, actually no, he did a cover in this style before this, so before that, I only knew Brooks signature style and when I first saw the animated style, I had to make sure it was the same artist. I love this Classic Disney Animation art style!! I would watch an animated show in this style.

They look so great together!

Speaking of Mark Brooks differing styles, this set is also from him. It’s in an adventure movie poster style.

These mystery novel style covers are fantastic! These are by Jorge Fornés.

It looks like a novel set.

Completed Variant Sets 20 — September 16, 2025

And now for the connecting variants! These were failures also, but not so bad as the past. Most connected decently but had to overlap or were misaligned in order to do so. I think there was one or two that actually had the whole art connecting properly even if misaligned.

Oh, and this post includes the most insane connecting set so far (not because of not lining up, that Captain Marvel and X-Men set still hold that award).

This set was actually finished in august, but for some reason I thought there were more covers. Nope, just these four.

These were all overlapping, and the images didn’t always line up. But, Mico Suayan did a great job crafting this scene for these covers!

Another fantastic Koblish set! And these ones were wraparounds too. So at least some parts of the image were fine.

And another frustrating bunch of misalignments or missing images. There were a couple overlaps though. I’m not quite sure about the space between the first and second issue though. Some parts seem like they line up once next to each other, and some seem like they need the gap to account for the missing parts of the design. If he ever posts a full image of this, I’d like to see what that part looks like. I would buy long posters of all Koblish’s art of this style.

Okay. This next connecting set is insane. The theme is the Marvel Universe, so just a lot of characters on the covers. These covers are by Chris Giarrusso. 15 issues. But they’re also wraparound. So I had to find space for essentially 30 comic covers to line up next to each other. I took a wide blurry shot, I took two panoramas, I took a bad time-lapse video where I moved slowly but not slow enough it seems. It was a lot. And the images either overlapped or were misaligned, but I do love this piece.

Ah. I forgot to take the individual photos of the comics. Drat. I’ll go take those 45 photos now…

Done! So instead of what I did with the set above, each issue getting two photos and then a wraparound photo after each issue, I’m going to have all 30 images in this next Gallery post, and then all the wraparound images in 15 Image posts afterwards.

And here are all the Images.

I guess I got overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to take the photos of them all together that I forgot about the individual covers. Whoops! But yes, look at all the crazy!

16.6 ish feet of space I had to find!
The first half
The second half
First half via panorama
Second half via panorama

The time-lapse. this was my second attempt, as my first attempt had me moving too fast. I could have tried again, but I didn’t want to be crouched like that continuously for a long time since I had a lot more photos to take during that day.

I decided that they all looked cool from this next view on both ends.

The next set is a connecting grid which is always great. These are by Cliff Chiang.

This was one of the better connecting designs. There was a bit of misalignment, but other than a couple instances of that, it mostly worked out well!

This next set is a vertical connecting set by Nicoletta Baldari!!

It looks great! Though this image is a bit unfocused because I think my light was dimming.

This final connecting set are actually two sets, one foil and one non-foil. They’re by Guillem March! Another great connecting set by this artist.

And the full set. Such fun! These, and the foils, had a little bit of overlap.

And the foils.

Full image.

Next posts are the normal sets.

Completed Variant Sets 19 — September 16, 2025

So this will be a little different. Instead of starting with connecting covers I’m doing these two sets. The first set was from last time where I thought I had all the covers but didn’t till after I took the photos. Then this time i took new photos after I got the missing issue in the mail. The next post will be the connecting cover sets.

It’s nice to have the Battle of Jakku set completed! I still have a long way to go to get to read this bunch, but that’s just how it is.

These all look so great together! I’m excited to get to this story because the only things I’ve known about the Battle of Jakku have been from watching the Sequel trilogy, me reading the Aftermath trilogy, Fallen Stars, some mentions in other comics, and some stuff in video games. Seeing this battle from the main Star Wars trio’s POV is something I’ve been waiting years for. And of course, Phil Noto, Taurin Clarke and E.M. Gist all did amazing jobs on all three sets of these covers respectively!!!

This set I’ve had completed since March, but since I hadn’t gotten to these boxes yet, I had them sorted separately because I wanted them to stay flat. Peach Momoko did a kimono set with various character dressed in them.

They all look so amazing! Of course, I love the Kamala one, but they all amaze me whenever I look at them. Peach has a way of differentiating styles she draws and seeing some of them next to each other is intriguing. I love all her styles, the character ones and the background ones.

Big Sorting Project Part 4 (caught up!) (September 2-13, 2025 (10 days in that time))

I’m finally caught up to present day regarding sorting variants!!! It only took 6 months, haha. I had intended to finish this in August, but as I mentioned in the Part 3 post, I didn’t have the small boxes. I ordered 15 and that actually wasn’t enough, so the week after I started this, I was waiting on another 35 boxes. They all arrived in perfect timing and I got it all done.

This is from when I started on September 2nd.

I went from 71 boxes last time to end on 99 boxes this time!

September 10, 2025

I turned 35 the day before these issues dropped!

This run of Birds of Prey got to its 25th issue. The same for Batman & Robin. Aquaman returned to the Justice League. We got a new title and I think new characters with C.O.R.T.: Children of the Round Table. And a bittersweet issue next to that is the brand new Red Hood issue 1 that was supposed to be his first in-canon solo book, but there was drama with the writer that day, so the book was cancelled literally the day it came out. Blue Falcon and Dynomutt got a title! Punisher got a new Red Band series. This is the penultimate issue of Miles’ adventure in the new Ultimate universe. And this is the Antepenultimate main series issue of Doom’s event. We got a new Edge of Venomverse issue. The next Imperial one-shot dropped. We got a new Iron Fist miniseries. And we got an Age of Apocalypse one-shot, probably tying into the Age of Revelation event.

See the bottom of the page for what my next post will be about!

Love a legacy cover. This Aquaman main cover i like the art and also the orange. I’m always happy to see a Jessica Cruz cover! And I like how Todd Nauck drew Fire and Ice.

The next Supergirl covers! So much orange!

A very colorful cover from Nicoletta Baldari.

The variants I got of this issue. I guess I forgot to take the photo of the blank variant alone. The foil cover looks great! I liked the covers of the other issues they had in the Previews, but I guess we’ll never see those.

Hetrick’s Demona, a blank variant for Blue Falcon, a collage from Mr. Garcin and an incentive cover that I hadn’t noticed had Maystorm on it.

The next Jedi Knights variants.

The next Ellie covers.

A great art of all those Spiders and Symbiotes!

So many fantastic covers for this issue! The first one I got because I have action figures of AOA Sabretooth and Wildchild from when I was a kid. Before I knew what AOA was. I always enjoy seeing Apocalypse on covers! That Momoko cover is great! And I love that we got another Disney Animation design from Brooks, though it’s not part of the set (you’ll see in one of the posts tomorrow) I guess, so perhaps that means I’ll see more of them. and that Taurin Clarke cover is just gorgeous.

A small poster for the C.O.R.T. kids.

I’m assuming a promo for an upcoming kids book.

I guess I’m getting fewer of the Marvel folded posters because they’re being put up at the store.

Next (I’ll post tomorrow I think) will be the final big Complete Collections posts from my catch-up!!!!!!!!

September 3, 2025

Another week with A LOT of issues.

Batman got its first number 1 since Rebirth and only its 4th ever Number 1! I learned that at the store, I guess I just didn’t think about it back when Rebirth started since I was just starting to get back into comics around then. Other than the original, and the two aforementioned ones, New 52 also got a Batman #1. It’s Ragnarok in the JSA. Cheetah and Cheshire continue their caper. We got a new Superman title continuing storylines from the Future State event set in the future. Sabrina the Teenage Witch got a new run. Jeff the Landshark got another issue. The Marvel Zombies dropped by in Avengers (not sure if it’s the original ones or other ones as promotion for the upcoming animated microseries). Han Chewie and Lando got a new series that tells us about their search for the Falcon before the Sequel trilogy. Legacy of Vader introduced us to a new Knight of Ren. Everyone seems to be going through a lot in all the X-titles. We got the next Imperial tie-in. Doctor Strange, while not having a current run, got a 450th one-shot issue. I was very disappointed by the fact that there were barely any variants for this huge milestone, only four (2 normal, 2 incentive). Even with no current run, this issue should have had at least 10 variants. For example, Amazing Spider-Man 975 got 9 normal variants and 3 incentive variants. We actually have a Spider-Man TAS continuation via a new comic run!! Now, it’s not nice that the showrunner of that amazing series isn’t doing the writing for this title, and there’s still no word on if it’ll get the same kind of treatment as X-Men ’97 got, but it’s nice to finally have something. FYI, as soon as X-Men ’97 dropped, he made it known that he’d love to return for a revival. So, we’ll see how this comic does. And the next DSLTRY issue dropped.

These are the variants that I got, there were SO many. The blind bag was of course a swing of a pickaxe in the dark and I didn’t strike gold, but the cover I got is still great.

The first is by Gabriele Dell’Otto, I liked the blue being accentuated and the bats. The new logo is cool. And I was happy to see an Artgerm cover and a wraparound at that! And the cover I got in the bag was the foil variant of the Jim Lee cover.

Fantastic covers with all very different tones! I really liked Rahzzah’s cover with the sun behind Clark.

I think this is the first time in a while that the store didn’t have enough to get the 1:25 incentive cover. So, I’ll have to find that somewhere else.

The main cover of course, and the red and black cover is by Nogi San

A fun Momoko cover and one of the anniversary sets with that iconic moment from Revenge of the Sith.

Alex Ross’s Timeless makes its return this year in a part two of the bunch back in Spring. it’ll be 16 covers. And I love this Gonzales cover!

Another issue where there were many variants. The first here is the main cover. The second is the first of the upcoming Stitch variants. And the third one is a fantastic origin themed one by Lee Bermejo.

I love the details and shading, as usual for his covers.

So many variants for this too, understandably so. JTC of course started a new set of action figure variants. A blank for the future. An animation variant, and the fourth one I got because Venom looked exactly like he did in the cartoon.