I anxiously awaited my packs of Marty and Boo’s Nevermore Alice today, but the post man delivered my mail with no Nevermore Alice. . . Oddly several hours later the post man came back and delivered my packs!

My first thought was that the box was too small to hold all the packs I ordered, after opening the box my second thought was holy crap those packs are small! Efficient and practical are probably better words, the packs for this release are simply envelopes with a Nevermore Alice sticker covering the flap. I thought it was a creative way to solve the wrapper issue, and the sticker is very nice. . . knowing that there are several more Nevermore sets in the wings it would have been nice to have something on the wrapper denoting which release it was, and perhaps what the pack contents were. Not an issue for me as all my packs are opened, but if you were reselling packs that could definitely be a nice feature. Thankfully the sketches are in penny sleeves inside the envelope. The base cards are floating around naked.

Speaking of the base set. . . it is 10 cards plus a header card. Each card features a Nevermore character done by artists who have sketch cards in the set. The artwork on these is really nice. The pack features a quote about the art — or perhaps the title of the art and the artist’s name. Since these are new characters I would have liked to see the character name as well as a brief description on the cards. . . it’s clear there is a story here, I just don’t know what it is. Base card collation was perfect.

The sketch cards in this set are really nice, I’ve picked out 9 here and went for a variety of artists as well as characters, to be honest it was difficult to pick out 9 as there were many more that I could have picked. The artist roster for this set features 31 ink-slingers, and while not every piece I pulled is a style I typically collect they are all well done, there is an abundance of great art in this set. . . just look at the scan:

One in every ten of my packs contained two sketch cards, which was a great bonus.

While base card collation was perfect it felt like I should have had a different mix of artists in the cards I pulled, I have no idea what the rarity of any given artist is so it makes it difficult to know what I should have pulled, but I wound up with 55 sketch cards, since there were only 31 artists it would seem I should be pulling one of each and doubles of others. . . turns out I didn’t pull any sketches from about a third of the artists, which was a bummer — also 24 out of my 55 cards came from just 5 artists. Again that could just be how the collation is if certain artists did fewer cards than others. . . anyway, here is the list of artists and the number of cards I pulled from each artist.

Danielle Soloud 0
Dave Reynolds 0
Dennis Budd 0
EISU 0
Fer Galacia 0
Kristen Allen 0
Noah Whyler 0
Randy Kintz 0
Tim Shay 0
Ashleigh Popplewell 1
Bianca Thompson 1
Lak Lim 1
Marlo Lodrigueza 1
Patrick Finch 1
Rusty Gilligan 1
Water Rice 1
George Webber 2
Jim Kyle 2
Kat Laurange 2
Luke Smarto 2
Mel Uran 2
Vince Sunico 2
Elfie 3
Francois Chartier 3
Pablo Diaz 3
Tim Proctor 3
Thor 4
William Kunkle 4
Boo 5
Dan Gorman 5
Russ Platt 6

Overall Nevermore Alice is a great set, the sketch card work is very high and the base set is excellent, I just wish I would have pulled more of the artists. I guess we’ll see how I did compared to the overall artist numbers if they are published.

Until next set!

Jon