These are the Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding variants for Jedi Knights.
As usual, they look great!
A nice connecting cover set by Guillem March that have a little overlap but almost connect properly.
Also slightly misaligned. But they do look nice together.
These are the ACO connecting set. They all look great!
But of course. The connecting aspect is horribly printed. I showed this design as a vertical image and a horizontal one since they both work. But yes. The first and last issues have a huge chunk of design missing between the next and precious issues respectively. And yet, the middle issues connect decently enough? So very strange.
Jigsaw showed his, uh, face, in this Punisher issue. Ultimate Endgame continued. Invincible Woman’s reign of terror continued. The mystery behind Kamala’s next death continued in Inglorious X-Force. Death Spiral continued. We got our next MCU tie-in with Fantastic Four First Foes. We got a new High Republic miniseries started with Pathfinder. Green Lantern got to its 600th issue! Superboy-Prime took over the Superman comic. The villains joined the Justice League in JLU. And we got the next DC/Marvel crossover issue with Superman/Spider-Man 1. Now, there are a lot of variants that I got, but just the variants alone will add $100 to my receipt, so I’m going to wait till May to bring them home. So, you’ll have to wait to see which of the many many variants that I got.
The next Marvel Presents variant of a character reading a Marvel comic.
The main cover and variant for Ultimate Endgame 3 with Maystorm featured.
The next Sai main Momoko variant.
The next Werneck and Leirix cover and variant respectively for Wiccan.
More Knull covers. The main one by Ryan Stegman, the next one by Geoff Shaw and the homage one by Davide Paratore.
The next Jod Jusko variant and a fantastically creepy Swaby variant.
The next bunch of Psylocke covers. The first one by InHyuk Lee, the next amazing one by Aka and the last one by Taurin Clarke.
Momoko giving us the Kinney sisters.
The next Coello connecting cover and a lovely Besch variant of MJ.
Taurin Clarke gave us an amazing variant of King Ghidorah battling Galactus! And Godzilla is battling Galactus on this Justin Mason variant. Then there’s the next Shredder cover. And then I really liked the main cover for MMPR TMNT III 5 by Alessio Zonno.
So many variants!
The main (wraparound) cover is by Xermànico.
The first variant is of the brand new costume design for Kyle Rayner designed by David Nakayama! Then is the Aja variant. Then the symbol variant. Xermànico also did the corner box foil variant next.
Of course we also got a Koblish variant!
And then a fantastic glow-in-the-dark variant by Guillem March. Surprisingly no blank variant.
We got the next Harley variants. Main by Nakayama, first variant by Guillem March, paying homage to a famous painting, the next by Aset Kairambayev. And the final one by Leirix of course.
The main cover for this, by Hayden Sherman and Jordie Bellaire, has Absolute Zatanna on it so, yup.
Another issues with a bunch of variants, these are the ones I got.
The first one is another of the wraparound video game variant by Juan Ferreyra.
This amazing variant is by Taurin Clarke.
And Rod Reis gave us two variants with Superboy Prime reading two different comics.
This cover is here simply because of the Washington DC.
The Vishanti paid a visit to Wanda. The Danger Room continued to baffle the X-Men. Death Spiral carried on. Sentry got a new run started. The Titans title got a new team of Titans and a new title for the same comic! A new arc started in Absolute Flash, Nightwing, and Superman Unlimited. Batwoman, (The Main Man) Lobo, and Deathstroke all started new runs under the new DC banner called Next Level!!
This is such a great main cover by CAFU!
These are such fantastic covers for Sorcerer Supreme!
The main cover has the Vishanti on it, which is awesome. The next one is the Dauterman variant. After that is an homage variant to the original Secret Wars #12 (1984). The last one is a gorgeous one by Alex Maleev.
I love the AoA Sabretooth design. I also love the Magneto design. The former is by Joe Madureira and the latter is the next Brooks animated variant.
And look at that, another Maleev cover! This time it’s for Sentry’s new run. And then a second printing of the Magik and Colossus #1. The next is such an unexpected cover! Fox Mask Killer vs Invincible by Michael Walsh! And the last one is a Super Creepshow cover that’s is an homage of Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
The next Frank Cho, W. Scott Forbes and Leirix Catwoman covers respectively.
Taurin Clarke did such an amazing job at the main cover for this Titans issue. I don’t think that I’ve seen a Stephen Byrne cover before, I love this cover of Starfire and Nightwing.
Daniel Sampere & Tomeu Morey did a great job on this main cover for this issue. And of course there’s the next Nakayama variant for Wonder Woman.
Here’s the next Fornés cover for Nightwing.
The next variants for Superman Unlimited. ACO’s connecting variant and Ratcha Lin’s gorgeous variant which just looks like animation.
So many amazing covers for this issue!
We have a Stjepan Šejić variant, normal and foil versions of Artgerm’s variant, Jorge Corona and Sarah Stern’s variant and finally, a blank variant.
Lobo looks amazing on this Eom variant! And there’s the blank variant.
All the Deathstroke, all the time! All amazing covers!
The main one is by Carmine Di Giandomenico. The next one (and the foil cover) is by the fantastic Dan Panosian! The third one is another by Eom. Jorge Corona and Sarah Stern also gave us the next cover. And then of course there’s the blank variant.
This infamous date on this World’s Finest variant by Szerdy. And here’s the foil variant of by Dan Mora.
Very late posting these posts. I just took the photos for the next batch of comics yesterday!
One connecting cover, two main covers and two variants.
I love the details on this Detective Comics cover! Mikel Janín is fantastic! And I had to get the other Darkseid Dan Mora variant for DC KO 5. Of course the next Talaski cover for Batgirl looks great.
Connecting variants first, as always. though, only one set is non-connecting covers.
Russell Dauterman just is amazing. These covers look fantastic! And yet, the connections are both misaligned and overlapping. It’s frustrating since it’s such a great design.
This looks just glorious, just don’t look too closely between the covers. I’d buy a poster of this.
Kaare Andrews did a great job on this design! This also is an overlap problem, but even when next to each other normally, it’s passable.
This design just looks so good.
Stefano Caselli deserved SO MUCH BETTER than what Marvel did to this design. But these covers are fantastic.
This was an overlap issue. And it just looks far too noticeable to have next to each other normally. But this design is great to look at. I can’t remember if I got the poster of this from the store, I think they just hung it up at the store.
And these are all the covers by Stjepan Šejiić for Sonja Reborn.
I (unsurprisingly) love his art!!
Added just one new box, a Darkseid covers box. So, we’re at 113 boxes.
Reign of the Superboys started. Aquaman is the Emperor. We got a new run for Usagi with Kaito. We got a food-related special that was supposed to be released in November. We got an X-Men special. Death Spiral continued. We also got a new title with Imperial Guardians. And Jessica Jones got a new Alias miniseries.
This main cover is by Will Conrad and Matt Herms. I like it for the legacy of the character on it.
The next Supergirl covers! The main cover and variants.
The main cover is of course by Dan Mora. Everyone looks amazing on it. ACO is doing a set of vertical connecting variants. Though, I already see a big printing issue with it. Dékal made Kara look amazing in the next variant. The next one is the next Leirix WHM variant. We got the logo variant. And then the Jiménez corner box foil cover looks fantastic!
The next Leirix variant. And Mirka Andolfo did this next gorgeous variant!
The next Sirens covers. The main and variants. I liked this Derrick Chew variant of Ivy. And the last variant is the next Lotay connecting variant.
This cover by Eduardo Mello I actually got accidentally, but it’s still a fun cover!
Love this Momoko variant! And this variant by Giuseppe Camuncoli is fun, I got it because Kamala is on there. Funnily enough, this variant was shown as the main cover for a while and then it got moved to the B cover.
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a Kendrick Lim cover. This looks great!
The main cover and variants for this issue that I got. The connecting covers are by Stefano Caselli. Now, I don’t know why they didn’t make this a wraparound cover. It would have been better than making the connecting part also a variant of the main cover. It’s just weird. Also, well, you’ll see in the next post. But the design looks great! Emma Frost looks amazing in both the Forbes variant and the Momoko variant respectively.
I mean look at these!!
Taurin Clarke made Ororo look amazing on this homage variant. And the Fan Yang variant looks great too!
I love seeing the cover that’s being paid homage to on the back of the variant. I’ve said that before, but it’s just great. And yeah. The Fan Yang variant looks so elegant.
I don’t often see Talavera doing characters with no human-like faces. This just looks so good!
David Mack. On the main cover for this Alias run. Amazing! I love all the main covers that I’ve seen so far! The first variant here is by JeeHyung Lee, it looks so good! And the last variant is a fantastic Vecchio variant!
Posters! This Jamal Campbell cover for the main cover poster is fantastic!
Ivy is the Mayor of Gotham! This is the final issue of DC KO (though there’s more to come from this plot soon). We got a reprint of the Spider-Man team-up with Invincible from years ago. Starlord and Nova are butting heads. Death Spiral continued! This run of Avengers ended. Dani Moonstar got her first title run! Iceman got a new one-shot. And Maul got a new miniseries that is a prequel to the upcoming Maul animated series.
Leirix did a set of covers for women’s history month. This is one of them.
These are the main and variants for this Poison Ivy issue.
Jessica Fong does such a good job on these main covers for this arc. Pamela looks great at the mayor’s desk. Leirix’s Ivy on the first variant. I guess they just made a vine of Ivy for Pamela’s logo? And Jorge Jiménez did a set of foil covers themed on the characters from the corner box. This Ivy one looks great!
Mirka Andolfo did this variant of Absolute Superman.
Logo and foil corner box variants for Cass’s Batgirl.
Lucas Meyer did such a great job with this variant! Terry’s costume looks amazing.
So much Darkseid on these variants!! I think there were only a couple other variants.
The first one is a foil cover of the main cover but without the acetate cover. This is by Javier Fernández and Alejandro Sánchez. I don’t have much interest in the wrestling variants, but Darkseid is right there. Dan Mora is fantastic. Mike Del Mundo did such fantastic art on this variant of Darkseid sitting inside earth like a throne. It looks like a classic design. Ian Bertram did the next cover with Darkseid looking like a mural. Darkseid baring his teeth at us is done really well by Ben Oliver. Steve Skroce made the Omega Beams look great! I think there are a couple more variants of this that I need to find.
The next Frison cover. A blank variant for the Spidey/Invincible team-up reprint. Gurihiru did a monster variant of Illyana.
Talavera made MJ look amazing! We’ll see how this next variant set goes, but Iban Coello did a great job on this first variant.
The last Dauterman collage variant in this set.
Swaby drew Danielle Moonstar so well on this variant! And I love these Marvel Comics Presents variants! Benjamin Su did great!
Luciano Vecchio did the writing, art and color for this issue and run. Amazing cover!
This first variant is a photo variant, I assume it’s from the show or at least from Rebels. Aka is doing a headshot variant set, this is the first one. The colors look great! Elena Casagrande did a great job on this Women’s History Month variant. The last one is by Panosian.
Matt and Frank look great on this Momoko variant. And these last two variants are the second printings of each of these issues of Rogue and Psylocke Ninja respectively.
Both Exquisite Corpses issues are here because the website took the title off my list for some unknown reason. The Forbes variant for Catwoman is next. Another copy of The End 2099 3 and Wiccan 2. And an Ario Anindito variant for Punisher 1 themed on Hell’s Kitchen.
It’s Awesome Con time again! I was a bit stressed about today, but it all went well! Tomorrow will certainly be a lot more crazy.
I headed straight for Misha Colins (Cas on Supernatural)’s table to meet him. I showed him the show finale shirt which he recognized and the crew-made book for him to sign which he also recognized. I also got him to sign something for my wonderful friend Chey, who couldn’t make it here this year. ^__^ he was lovely! Though I was so caught up in things that I completely forgot to like talk to him properly! XD
Last night I realized that there were 2 power Rangers actors who I didn’t know were at the con this year again. I knew about two beforehand. The two I hadn’t known about were two if met last year on the Sunday, so I didn’t have anything to be signed. I met Steve Cardenas (the second Mighty Morphin Red Ranger/Blue Zeo Ranger, Rocky) and I mentioned last year. He was happy that I was able to see them again this year. I got him to sign the item I brought and then we waited for Karan Ashley (the second Yellow Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, Aisha) so we could have a photo with the three of us. I also mentioned to her about meeting her a few years ago and she remembered the event. It was nice talking to them. He also mentioned that there were two Wild Force Rangers here too. So now I had more people to meet!
I got to meet Cathrine Sutherland (the second Pink Mighty Morphin Power Ranger/Pink Xeo Ranger/first Pink Turbo Ranger, Kat) and Nakia Burrise (the Yellow Zeo Ranger/first Yellow Turbo Ranger, Tanya). I told them that I really enjoyed both Zeo and Turbo. Nakia asked about the power coin case I had for Kat to sign. I told her about the 20th anniversary set that it’s from. We took a photo together and then a silly photo at Nakia’s request. And I thanked them both for all their work back then, now and in the future. They were lovely!
Next was my Adam Savage (Mythbusters) photo-op! It was short and sweet of course. But I’d see him later anyway.
Next I headed straight to the table with the Wild Force Ranger actors at it. I met Phillip Andrew (the Lunar Wolf Wild Force Ranger, Merrick) and Jack Guzman (the Black Wild Force Ranger, Danny), got a photo with them! I told them both that I loved Wild Force and that Zen-Aku is still my favorite villain character design of all the Power Rangers franchise and that I loved seeing Danny as a ranger’s name on-screen.
Next was a big one, I got to finally meet Carol Ann Ford (The Doctor’s granddaughter from Doctor Who and one of the first companions, Susan)!! Got her to sign the DW book. Told her about meeting William Russell in 2018 when she had gotten sick and couldn’t make the convention. I thanked her for her time as Susan and being part of my favorite fandom. She was happy to hear that and she also noticed my marvel jacket and liked it.
After that, i got in line for Adam Savage’s autograph. I told him how much I loved Mythbusters. I told him that I wished for a Mythbusters complete series box set at some point. He was like I can’t believe there isn’t one! But, he told me that all the eps are on various streaming services. I also mentioned that I met Grant Imahara here in 2015 and it was such a good conversation about BB-8. He said that some other people had mentioned meeting him back then and it was lovely.
Next was another photo-op, the Supernatural team-up. Misha and Jim enjoyed the Funkos of their characters that I brought for the photo. Misha took the Bobby one to hold, and so Jim took the Cas one and said he got the pretty one. The photo is fun!
I went to meet Sylvester McCoy (the 7th Doctor/Radagast, the Brown) again. I got him to sign the LOTR wooden map that I got last year. He loved the map! I also mentioned that I met him in 2017.
After sitting down for a while, I got in line for my Carol Anne Ford photo-op. She liked my shirt of the First Doctor.
I finally got to meet Jim Beavers (beyond the phot-op). I told him how much I love his character of Bobby and that I was really excited for him to be here. He appreciated it. He signed my two items (one for me and one for Cheyenne) but he accidentally signed the wrong name on the one for me, so he went back and corrected it and then added an Igit quote, which was funny.
I was going to leave but then I went to chat with AJ Locasio about his voice of Marrok on the upcoming Darth Maul show and Gambit in the X-Men 97 animated series. He was lovely! I will have to meet him again for a couple of his other voice-work.
Then I just waited to get picked up to head home.
8:30 – Home.
Day one was a great day that was less stressful than I anticipated, which is always nice. Every time I go to a convention and it’s been a few months, it takes a bit to get back into the groove of things. This one wasn’t bad at all. Tomorrow will probably be a bit more harsh. We’ll see! Till then!
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AwesomeCon Day 2!!
Today was rough! Could have gone worse, but a couple slip-ups threw things off! But it was still fun! Longer day than yesterday but I did fewer things.
9:34-12:15 – in line for Nathan Fillion. I wore my Firefly shirt to meet him, but I got signed something related to Guy Gardner. I told him that I enjoyed his portrayal of Guy. And of course Malcolm Reynolds. This was anticipated as one of the longest waits and that was correct, but not actually the longest!
I also had a livestream that I normally watch on most weekends for a few hours. I managed to watch it while in all the lines!
12:23-3:55- In line for Alan Tudyk’s autograph. But he didn’t show up in time for me because of all the photo-ops and I had a photo-op to get to at 4. This was the largest waste of time. I should have gone to the smaller lines first and save him for after my photo-op. Ugh. This is what cost me later on.
I also had Community Day in Pokémon Go from 2-5. So I also did that while in line while watching the livestream, haha.
3:57-4:12 – I left that line and got in line for (4:00) Morena Baccarin photo-op. It was quick of course.
4:15-6:20 – in line for Summer Glau. I mentioned seeing her here before and not being able to get to the table. I had her sign for a role she did on Arrow. This was another crazy unexpected wait. She was supposed to return at 4:30 ish, but she got back closer to 5, and then she takes a while to get through people, which I don’t mind because I love when I get to chat with the people I get to meet. I just didn’t expect the wait when the exhibit hall closed at 7.
6:21-6:24 – I saw that the table was empty and I got in line for Gina Torres. I got her to sign something for her work as Vixen in the old DC Animated Universe (i.e. Justice League and Justice League Unlimited). I hadn’t realized that she voiced her till I was preordering these autographs. She was lovely and loved the poster showing the characters from those shows.
6:24-6:33 – in line for autograph from Morena Baccarin. As with Fillion, I had her sign things for a few other roles than her Firefly one. All posters. I didn’t really get to tell her how much I have enjoyed all those roles that she’s been in since I was rushing having her sign 3 posters and a photo print. But she liked seeing the unique posters I had. It was still a nice meeting. Maybe one day I’ll meet her again and get to chat for a bit.
I did try, but, they’d called the line for the Saturday-only attendees, which makes sense. But I’m sad that I couldn’t meet Alan Tudyk today because time ran out. Pushing that to tomorrow. Which means that I have to bring the huge case again!! >__< I was looking forward to not needing it! Oh well!
7:50 – Home.
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AwesomeCon Day 3!!!
First thing I did today was get the Awesome con shirt of the year. I forgot again that it doesn’t come with the badge anymore.
Next I stopped by a pin maker that I follow online and said hi.
Next I chatted with Tyler Labine (the voice of Hunk on the Voltron: Legendary Defender animated series, Iggy on New Amsterdam and other things which I’d not seen). I told him that I watched New Amsterdam with my parents and loved it and enjoyed his character. And then we talked about Voltron and streaming and the trend of people wanting physical media again after studios have been gatekeeping IP. He told me that Voltron LD was getting a complete series box set this month! I told him I’d return to get an autograph later on.
Next was my photo-op with George Takei! Since I have no Star Trek shirts, I went with a Futurama shirt I had.
I went back to the table to get the autograph from Tyler after I exchanged an accidental autograph ticket.
I did attempt to meet Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Slade on the Teen Titans animated series, and many other things) but he only took cash, so I couldn’t get any of my items signed. I don’t like taking cash out unless I planned to beforehand. And also, they wouldn’t let me even say hi. Ugh. That last part was the most frustrating thing. Why not?? Charge me a dollar to say hi, just let me say hi. I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to say to him but I guess I’ll have to wait for another time that he’s a guest and remember the bring cash.
Next was the big photo-op with 7 members of the Firefly cast!! This was a quick in-and-out but it’s a nice photo.
My photo-op for Alan Tudyk (SO many movies and shows, some being K2-SO in the Star Wars universe, Steve the pirate in Dodgeball, Kelex in Superman, Mr. Nobody in Doom Patrol, Sonny in iRobot etc.) was next! I told him I was wearing a Danny, The Street from Doom Patrol shirt and he was like woah, that’s great!
Next I met Alessandro Juliani (Dr. Emil Hamilton on Smallville, Dr. Cerberus in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and various other voices and acting roles like in Death Note and Battlestar Galactica). I told him that I enjoy his various roles but I first saw him in Smallville as Dr. Hamilton.
I stopped by my pin friend again to get some pins and chat!
Then was my photo-op for Tyler Labine.
Following that was my photo-op for Alessandro Juliani! He loved that I was wearing a Talkville (Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling’s Smallville recap podcast) shirt, He said that he hoped to be on the podcast at some point.
My last photo-op was for Ron Perlman! I said I was wearing this Batman the animated series shirt to stand-in for Clayface, a role which he did great on.
My penultimate autograph was for George Takei! I got a signing from him for his role as a warden in the Fire Nation prison from the season 1 episode “Imprisoned”on Avatar the Last Airbender.
My final task was for Alan Tudyk’s autograph I used my skip-the-line slot for photo-ops for this. I’m very glad that I saved it since that line would have taken over an hour probably. I got things signed from him for his roles as K2-SO, Mr. Nobody, and Kelex. I told him that I’ve admired him for years and I always enjoy all his roles, like his recent one on Resident Alien.
Finally, I got some soda from Wild Bills and went to chat with my pin friend for an hour.
6:25 – Home.
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This was a fun and stressful AwesomeCon! I always love meeting the celebs but also seeing the artists and other genders. This year kept me so busy that I didn’t really see the artist alley floor, perhaps next year I’ll be able to. Next year’s is in April!
Alan Quah did such an amazing job with this design! And as usual, I’m sad that they don’t connect properly. These were all overlapped. But the designs are just so detailed! I love them!
The overlap wasn’t huge, but still frustrating. But they look good like this, mostly.
Taurin Clarke with the Black History Month set. Now, this, I don’t understand. Why on earth are the shades of colors different between issues? How is that not a QC problem? The images were drawn as one image, why would you allow this kind of color difference for mass production? I assume time is the reason and QC didn’t have much or any time.
I think there wasn’t much overlap, but the color difference was far too distracting. But they all look amazing next to each other!
I do enjoy when Doctor Who does photo variants for its comics. It’s a nice way to get some promo photos!
These covers were so wonderful to see! Even though apparently most of these battles don’t happen in the story, but they look so good on these covers! I watched the 80’s/90’s’s TMNT cartoon and then the 2003 one mainly. I’ve watched a bit of some of the other ones and the movies too. I haven’t read any of the classic comics though.
The first issue of this also had a similar team vs team design, but it was the villains of the story on the right, and I just wanted to see the turtle teams. The first cover here is by Dan Schoening and Louie Joyce showing the first live-action turtles vs the most recent Mutant Mayhem turtles. The next variant is by Andy Suriano and Jim Lawson showing turtles from the first comic run vs the Rise of the TMNT’s animated series. The next one is by Dan Schoening, Luis Antonio Delgado, Ken Mitchroney and Heather Breckel showing the 1987 cartoon turtles vs the Saturday morning adventures comic turtles. The final cover is by Ciro Nieli and Luis Antonio Delgado showing the 2003 animated series turtles vs the present day comic turtles.
Love these Inhyuk Lee variants! I thought there were more of these covers but nope, just three.
I kind of wish that the yellow design in the background connected somehow. But they look great!
After this sorting, I added 3 boxes. So we’re at 112!
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