Christopher Sprouse pumped out a steady stream of high-quality, clean, and appealing variant covers for Marvel’s Star Wars titles this year which celebrated every era of Lucasfilm’s 50 years. Check out the checklist below to see if you collected them all! If you didn’t grab one through the links provided!
[…] The Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Variants have been consistently well conceived, well drawn, colored, and executed, and done on time week after week, month after month to boot! Their popularity has fluctuated as the covers have tracked Lucasfilm’s entire 50 year history of film and television production. Obviously, not every cover will resonate with every Star Wars fan, the same way not every film and TV entry resonates with every Star Wars fan either. However, some covers became uniquely popular. Of note, the Darth Vader #20 Sprouse variants were wildly popular and sought after. This was a product of the fact that art for the cover was released the day after final order cut off, and the fact that the cover depicts the first cover appearance of the Mandalorian Din Djarin, and Grogu (“Baby Yoda”) on a traditional comic book publication. It’s the only Sprouse variant so far to go back for a second “Beskar” print. […]
[…] steady stream of high-quality, clean, and appealing variant covers for Marvel’s Star Wars titles celebrating every era of Lucasfilm’s 50 years! Now, he’s back at it again with a line of “Choose Your Destiny” variants for […]
[…] gap before Return of the Jedi’s 40th next year. Who knows if these will be as popular as the Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th or Choose Your Destiny Variants, but we’ll see. Those regular covers by Rahzzah and Rod Reis […]
[…] gap before Return of the Jedi’s 40th next year. Who knows if these will be as popular as the Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th or Choose Your Destiny Variants, but we’ll see. Those regular covers by Rahzzah and Rod […]
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[…] The Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Variants have been consistently well conceived, well drawn, colored, and executed, and done on time week after week, month after month to boot! Their popularity has fluctuated as the covers have tracked Lucasfilm’s entire 50 year history of film and television production. Obviously, not every cover will resonate with every Star Wars fan, the same way not every film and TV entry resonates with every Star Wars fan either. However, some covers became uniquely popular. Of note, the Darth Vader #20 Sprouse variants were wildly popular and sought after. This was a product of the fact that art for the cover was released the day after final order cut off, and the fact that the cover depicts the first cover appearance of the Mandalorian Din Djarin, and Grogu (“Baby Yoda”) on a traditional comic book publication. It’s the only Sprouse variant so far to go back for a second “Beskar” print. […]
missed one “War of the Bounty Hunters #5 Jedi Master & Apprentice 5oth Ann” has Anakin & Ahsoka on the cover
You’re right! Thanks for proofreading me! I’ll add it.
Do you know how many there will be?
[…] steady stream of high-quality, clean, and appealing variant covers for Marvel’s Star Wars titles celebrating every era of Lucasfilm’s 50 years! Now, he’s back at it again with a line of “Choose Your Destiny” variants for […]
[…] gap before Return of the Jedi’s 40th next year. Who knows if these will be as popular as the Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th or Choose Your Destiny Variants, but we’ll see. Those regular covers by Rahzzah and Rod Reis […]
[…] gap before Return of the Jedi’s 40th next year. Who knows if these will be as popular as the Sprouse Lucasfilm 50th or Choose Your Destiny Variants, but we’ll see. Those regular covers by Rahzzah and Rod […]