Ok, CHU Believers. It’s time again for your favorite article of the week! And boy we have a doozey this week!
More like a doozey of a dud. If it wasn’t for J. Scott Campbell, I may have taken an even longer VaCa from this article. But hey, it’s all about JSC this summer any his bonanza of variant covers on all Marvel books, it seems. So let’s start with those and get them out of the way…
JSC OVERLOAD
Matt Murdock doing his best “Stupid Sexy Flanders” impression.
I don’t know about everyone else, but Marvel needs to rethink this whole JSC cover blast if they’re not going to have these covers ready at FOC. So annoying.
Yup…so, so annoying…
So, so, so very annoying…
Wow! Another cover! Everything’s comining up Milhouse now!
Aaaaaaaand we’re back.
Look at that. The Thor, who was immortal, dies…and now there’s a new volume, starting with a #1! Man, that Marvel is slick!
And there you have it. 8 JSC covers, and only 2 of them have art released at FOC. Great job there, Marvel/JSC.
SPEAR ME
Thundercats #17 (Spears Variants)
There are blue, green, red variants, plus foils and virgins and other combinations Dynamite is known for. Take your pick.
JUST THE FAX
Batman: Harley Quinn Facsimile Edition (Foil Variant)
Fan Expo 2019 Had a Virgin Foil exclusive of this cover. Now you can get it with the trade dress (which I prefer). Hopefully the UPC is on the back.
What’s most interesting is the original comic was $6, and the regular facsimile is $5. So I assume it’s not going to be “deluxe format”.
Detective Comics #880 Facsimile Edition (Foil Variant)
What cracks me up about this one is that there’s a blank variant…isn’t this facsimile all about the cover?? I guess someone could have either Jock or another artist draw an homage to this cover on the blank cover…
And even more bizzare is a Superpowers “toy” variant…and it’s of batman, not the Joker…Does DC know what makes this book worthy of a facsimile?
NEW CHARACTERS
THE MONK, THE DRAGON AND THE FIST: SHANG-CHI! The Ultimates return to the site of their untimely deaths at the hands of the Hulk and encounter a young boy who has been starting his own insurgency!
Ultimate Shang-chi is coming.
IND SPOTLIGHT
A soldier wakes with his bionic limbs missing and finds that he’s the target of a manhunt. Fortress #1 is the beginning of a new, ongoing action sci-fi series self-published by Joel van der Knaap. Genre mayhem at it’s finest!
$8 price tag may scare aware some retailers. If it’s a hit, may be hard to find a copy. Self-published is interesting.
Love is a monster. Orla Bard is an antique restorer, romance novel enjoyer and keen birder. She also believes in true love, continuing to navigate Seattle’s singles scene despite repeated disappointment. But Orla has a secret. She is afflicted with The Ick, a man-eating monstrous entity dwelling inside her, who violently emerges whenever she gets too angry or afraid. Unable to rid herself of this curse, Orla uses The Ick to save other women by removing the scummiest men from the dating pool…permanently. Hearts (and bodies) will be broken in this offbeat romcom/creature-feature mashup!
There’s probably a lot of comic book nerds that give ladies the Ick…
In the slums and gutters of ancient Rome a broken ex legionary named Marcus wanders in a drunken stupor, haunted by the shame of loss and failure of duty. Suddenly, he stumbles across a young girl being chased by strange, hooded demons, and in his attempt to help he is plunged into a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy the Empire. Step into a vision of ancient Rome that moves away from the temples of marble and clean white togas and into the dirty underbelly of one of history’s greatest empires. Combining magic, myth, violence, and intrigue into a story that is equal parts HELLBOY, BPRD, and a little bit of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
Cool cover. May be interesting for those history buffs of the Roman Empire.
Drek of the Week
Fans will find inside randomly inserted foil variants featuring superstar artists such as ARTGERM, JIM LEE, and more!!!
Ooooooohh. So close, DC. But a swing and a miss, for sure. Battle Beasts did it right. But some more scarce variants in, mixed with some foil covers, but charge the same price as the regular copies.
Foils are more expensive I get that…but there really is no reasonable incentive here to spend double the regular cover. It’s random, but the same art as the regular covers. There’s a possibility of getting a 1:500 or 1:1000 incentive variant, but you’d have to think that is going to be pretty rare…unless they’re not truly 1:500 and 1:1000 ratios.
These are on FOC early because it must take longer to wrap a plastic bag around them…I’m sticking with Cover A when it comes out. Maybe grab one of these for the fun and mystery of it, but don’t go crazy at $10 each.
“Blind as a Bat”…geesh. Robbing your customer’s blind, is more like it.
Do better next time, DC.
now…if there were JSC Batgirl, Poison Ivy or Harley variants… 
Parting Thoughts
Not much else to report this week. Hopefully some of these JSC covers get release…really annoying, but what can you do? See you all next week!
