Every day has its share of Variant Covers surge on the various blogs or sites dedicated to the world of comics or the world of LEGO.

Rather than harass you with these images which ultimately do not concern us directly (These alternative versions of comics are not available at our usual bookstores), I have gathered all this for you in an album of my flickr gallery as well as on top Brick Heroes facebook page.

For those who are interested, I have just added the definitive covers of some comics scheduled for October and their version "early sketch"It's graphically very successful and it's always a pleasure to see some great designers lend themselves to the exercise of reproducing minifigs of superheroes.

Just to pass the time, here are three news variant covers LEGO-style comics that will be released in September: Thor which will be on the cover of Avengers # 21, Loki which will appear on Thor: God of Thunder # 14 and Iron Man which will make the front page of Avengers AI # 4.

If you follow the blog, you know that LEGO and Marvel are currently working to create a buzz around the upcoming release of the highly anticipated LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video game (See these other articles).

Regularly, Marvel reveals some of the "Variant Covers"which will dress up some comics to be released in September.

Here are two new creations by Leonel Castellani with a tribute to Steve Ditko's Spider-Man who will occupy the cover page of the next Mighty Avengers # 1 as well as a tribute to the work of Jim Lee who will dress the comic Uncanny Avengers # 12.

If you follow Brick Heroes facebook page, you have already been able to discover the visuals below. These are variant covers (different covers for the same magazine or comic issue) of Marvel comics revisited in LEGO sauce to celebrate the upcoming launch of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video game.

On the menu, Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble # 1 (Falcon !! ...), Wolverine & The X-Men # 36, All-New X-Men # 17, Amazing Spider-Man # 546 and Nova # 6.

The variant covers (Different covers for the same magazine or comic number) are not new, in the USA the technique is commonly used and it is more and more used in France with certain magazines such as Studio Ciné Live or comics published by Panini.

In September 2013, LEGO and Marvel Comics will celebrate the launch of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video game with great support from variant covers for select titles with bulk: All-New X-Men # 17, Avengers # 21, Captain America # 12, Daredevil # 31, Fantastic Four # 13, Guardians Of The Galaxy # 7, Marvel Universe # 1, Mighty Avengers # 1 , etc., etc...

While the initiative is laudable and will appeal to American fans, the first thought that came to my mind is that LEGO does a lot of things with the Marvel license, but not necessarily plastic ...

Since the signing of the agreement between the giant of the toy and that of the comic, we must be satisfied with a few minifigs of Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine and a few others where the video game will integrate a good hundred characters and where fans of paper comics will also be able to feast on many characters drawn by great illustrators such as Leo Castellani, Christopher Jones and Adam DeKraker.

It is high time that LEGO decided to step up the pace of the release of Marvel minifigs by broadening its sources of inspiration ...

In short, rather than rambling on, I'll let you admire the three examples of variant covers with LEGO sauce among those that will be offered next September.