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Some silliness in the trailer for DC League of Super-Pets

( A squeaky WHAT? )

Tired of the thirtieth fourth "GREATEST MOST IMPACTFUL BATMAN STORY EVER TOLD" event in a row?

Or the umpteenth "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING YOU EVER KNEW ABOUT THE JOKER/TWO FACE/RIDDLER!! (delete as applicable)"?

Well, I'm sure those stories have their place and if they're your jam, more power to you, but as an old fart, I do kind of miss more straightforward Batman as heroic protector of Gotham, accompanied by his kid sidekick Robin, the Boy Wonder.

So I found that the faux newspaper strips of Jacob Edgar, and coloured by Jason Simmons REALLY hit the spot

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It used to be so easy, variant covers were shiny foil versions of the normal cover, or had die-cut sections, or sometimes even holograms, and you could just ignore them...

But then come cunning bastard in Marketing came up with the idea of variant covers that readers might actually think were cool, or even worth the having. Case in point

Warning, a LOT of images under the cut, and unrepentently Silver Age-ish (and with thanks for Newsarama for sourcing them all in one place)

( A series of Darwyn Cooke variant covers! )