So, for the a period of 7 days during the last 10 days, I finally continued to do another variant sorting session. But, unlike last August when I sorted 1 box of 8 weeks-worth of variants, this time I stored 6 boxes of 48 weeks-worth of comics!! So this ended 2023 and dipped into 2024. It was doable since it was spring break and the schools I work at all had the same week off. It was also Star Wars Celebration last weekend in Japan, so I was watching those livestreams at night which gave me daytime to do more.

The only thing I have left to do is just move the little boxes I sort variants into back downstairs.

This is what I started with once I’d finished arranging the first bunch into categories. Once I got done with this, I sorted the easiest sections into their boxes.

Once I’d done that, I had only the Complete Collections left to photograph and then sort, which took the most time. But before then, I saw that I added I think 7 boxes to the number I had before!

Next will be all the completed variant sets from this session. I will divide them into 4 posts I think. And they’ll be in the completed collections section.

So since for the first time in the past few years I’ve actually been able to get all the cover issues of certain sets of variants out together, I thought I’d take advantage and get a photo of each set. I have so many others but they’re in piles that it’s just too much to go through right now to sort through them all from the last 8 years. At some point I’ll will sort those all out, but that’s not today, haha.

I will try to continue this when I realize I’ve finished a set of variants. We’ll see how long this lasts, but hopefully I can’t remember to take photos of them once I realize I’ve finished a set. The ones here are from as far back as mid-May of this year up till this week, as the last covers of some of the sets came out and as I was putting them all together I thought I might as well take all the sets out I have that are easy to get out and take the photos.

I will list the artists for each set each time I do these.

These are the post card variants from this year that started on May 18 and finished on July 6th. the Savage Land one is from Peach Momoko. The Madripoor one is from Carmen Carnero with colors by Romulo Fajrado Jr. The Latveria one is from Natacha Bustos. And the Wakanda one is from R.B. Silva with colors by David Curiel. I would love to see this theme of variants continue. Landscape variants are always fun to see pop up.

These started on July 26th and finished on September 28th of this year. The first one really caught my eye and with that boarder and the colors. These are by Evan Cagle.

These are all the AAPI Heritage variants that started on May 11th and ended on June 22nd of this year. I certain have talked about what I liked about these when I posted the first one in May, but it’s just such a minimalist design for each of them. Another great use of the white space on the cover. Plus these are all great characters. These are all by Dike Ruan and Neeraj Menon.

These are all of the Marvel Voice’s Comunidades covers from this month. Ghost Rider 6 started it off on September 7th and the final issue of this Miles run brought it home on the 27th. These are all such wonderful characters, I’m glad that they got some amazing covers this month. They’re all by Leonardo Romero.

And of course Harley’s homage variants are saved for last. I’ve already said which issues each of these have been inspired by in each post of the piles they arrived in, so I won’t write all that out again, but I love homage covers and Ryan Sook did a fantastic job of integrating Harley into these iconic covers.