23-24 Contenders:   Steph Curry and the Warriors have surged lately after the addition of Jimmy Butler.  Steph isn't having his best statistical year but he's still one of the best in the game.

These are two more fat packs from a box I purchased last year.  Good pull and the design is one I like.  I'm in the minority as a member of the Contenders brand fan club but they work for me.

Stallions are a nice-looking card.  I like the coloring and background.  Brandon Miller, though injured this season, is a legit rising star in the league and a great pairing with LaMelo Ball.

These Historic Draft Class inserts are great.  Wish we had retired greats on other designs within the set as well, but these are still fun.

Franz Wagner, Michigan alum, has become an excellent scorer and is scoring almost 25 points per game this season.  Nikola Jokic is maybe having his best season as a pro.  He is currently top three in the league in points, rebounds and assists per game.  That is nothing short of amazing.  

Young Kyrie!  These Draft Class cards are fun.

That CJ McCollum is a Game Day Bronze Parallel.  Interestingly enough, LaMelo Ball was my oldest grandson's favorite player but he was just recently supplanted by Ja (on a Game Night Ticket).  Fun coincidence since I scanned these in July.

 2024 Spider-Man: We'll kick this post off with a good-looking Captain America card.  The art has a classic feel to it which I like.

I wasn't familiar with this set when I saw the packs but knew I wanted them.  I like the basic design.  The dark red borders, logo and art are all good.  Not all the art is a hit with me.  The Wolverine art seems a bit odd but overall, I feel these are classic looks for the characters which I enjoy.

I pulled four Battle Time cards.  These are good cards too.  I do think the bottom border can be a bit smaller but it's not overly egregious.  

Some love for the ladies of Marvel.  I like all three of these with Arachne being my favorite.  Mockingbird's look feels a little off for me but I'm no expert on all her looks.

I'm a big fan of the Rhino who all in all is a minor Spider-Man character so I enjoy his inclusion.

Lots of characters from the Spidey-Verse we see a lot of as well as characters like Captain Britain who we might not think of when we think of Spider-Man.

Here we have the backs of the base card, Monumental Covers insert and Battle Time cards.  All are fine though I wish Monumental Covers hadn't gone all bright on us.

I will definitely go back and look for more of this set though probably singles for the most part.  I paid ~$6 per pack which means these are a dollar a card right off the bat.  I should be used to hero cards being expensive but the price points on Marvel and DC cards still surprises me.  Another reason I tend to go back to the Kayou Marvel and DC offerings.

These are fun cards.  I really like the look of that Iron Fist.  I read the Power Man and Iron Fist comics when I was young.  This Monumental Covers is a great looking card as well.  I really like the design and seeing the covers while feeling retro.

1991 Pro Set:  Thurman Thomas was such an amazing running back.  He led the league in yards from scrimmage four times.  A Bills legend and I have a Thurman Thomas jersey.

Something about this design, similar to the 1990 set just makes it work.  So simple and even without the team logo it looks good.  I like the Pro Set logos as well.  Not sure why, but it combined with the NFL shield looks good.
Another Bills legend celebrating and Buffalo had a lot to celebrate about in the 90s.
I like the Hall of Fame cards and we also get a Milestone and Award Winner card which I like.  And for some reason we have the team helmets here.  Feels like those would have worked on the base cards though maybe without the colored background behind them.
We all remember Johnny Grier.  Easy to overlook these guys but then when you see their cards, you're like "I remember that guy".
Some of the excellent players from the era. 
Chuck Noll is of course the coach of four Pittsburgh Steelers championship teams.
We get World League cards.  That middle card is a Dallas Public Service Announcement insert which includes players from other teams like we see with Ray Childress of the Houston Oilers.  NFL Newsreel cards aren't bad and a good look at a moment in time.
Knoll would retire after the 1991 season with 193 wins.
I love the All-NFC inserts and this art.
Maybe Steve Tasker won't be celebrating this moment but still a fun card.  Another Bill who will never have to buy his own drink in Buffalo.
So many memories here and fun cards.  Like all three of these players and lots of Bills in these packs which is a win for me.  I also get Deion whose name was in the news quite a bit with NFL coaching vacancies.

American Primeval is a Netflix series that debuted this year.  It's really good.  The series is set in 1857 around the events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.  There are multiple storylines that are born from that event which centers around the Mormons and their clashes with outside cultures.  While the different stories move forward, the series centers a mother and her son trying to get to her husband.  But as with all the different arcs, nothing is that simple.  American Primeval is violent but well done.  Pop and I enjoyed the show and I highly recommend it.  

LeBron hot pack!  LeBron and the Lakers are still in a good spot and get to move forward with the Luka era.  Everyone can't wait to see what excitement and/or drama this brings.

This brand shows off young players for the most part and this pack aged well.  LaMelo is a star, and thank goodness healthy, while Desmond Bane is a big part of the Grizzlies success.

It feels like Ben Simmons is on his 10th team since joining the league as he was bought out and signed with the Clippers this month.

I've had this pack since January of 2022 and just now showing it off three years later.  And wow.  I didn't know how good a pack this would be back then.  LaMelo, Bane and now Maxey.  And I would have bet Zion would have changed teams before Dame did.  But I would have been wrong.

These are fun.  Lots of variety and are great to look at years later.  KAT and Randle were traded for each other and KAT is killing it in New York.  Luka is a Laker in a trade that almost broke the internet.  Okay it didn't, but still it was the shot heard around the world.

Geronimo: An American Legend:  Pop had watched this before and really enjoyed it.  I couldn't remember seeing it, so we watched it this week.  Great movie.  I really liked it as well.  The story centers around the time Geronimo gave himself up to the government.  Like many Indians, being moved to a reservation was not something that sat well with him.  He fought it until he could no longer fight.  The story is good and fairly accurate of how it all went down.  There is plenty of star power ingJason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, a young Matt Damon and Wes Studi as Geronimo.  Patick and Studi were the stars of the movie.  I don't think the movie fared well when it was released in 1993, but I think it is really good and holds up well.  Another movie I highly recommend.

2023 Glory of the Universe:  We'll kick this one off with Harley Quinn.  A favorite of mine in the DC Universe, you just have to ignore the Birds of Prey movie.  Fun look on this card.  She has many different outfits in DC and they did a good job picking this one.

Again, I'm a big fan of these.  I really like the art and design on the cards.  They do a really good job on the backgrounds and colors to make it work.

This is one of the Plot cards that are seen across different DC movies.  I like them as we get to see screen grabs of the movies.  The movie name could have been a bit smaller or they could have just gone with the movie logo.

Here, we've got two Storyboard and a Rally card.  As a reminder the Rally set has members of the Justice League and the words in the bottom right spell out "You Can't Save The World Alone" when you have all six cards.  I dig it.

I love the look of Katana in the original Suicide movie.  As a reminder there are multiple "sets within the set".  Information on Kayou, a licensed Chinese product, is so hard to find but I did find a good checklist here.

The aptly named Super Cute cards.  These are so different from the rest of the cards, but I really like them.

I still need to watch the second Shazam movie.  I know the reviews weren't that good, but I do need to watch it since I enjoyed this one.

Storyboard cards come in horizontal and vertical offerings.  I really like these.  Simple samplings of comic book offerings.

These Cinephile cards look great.  I'll try to finish this set as well.

I'll really miss Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.  Henry Cavill was also excellent as Superman, but I think Gadot was my favorite of that era of DC films and thought she nailed the character.

This is the Group Portrait oversized card.  This is one of my favorites which includes favorites like GL, Jade, Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Firestorm.  They just call this one "Justice League" though we definitely get a lineup that isn't the norm.

Since originally purchasing these boxes, I've picked off singles to finish the character set.  I'm still figuring how far I want to go with the rest of the sets within the set.  The singles aren't cheap.  I'll keep sharing the different boxes I've purchased over time.  I really like these and enjoy showing them off.