The Variants

“Tsunami” An upset customer leads to the staff changing job responsibilities.

“The Heist” Joe accidentally sells a comic from a customer’s pull box. Now Joe and Keli have to track down another copy at another store while Richard and Barry handle a comic convention solicitor.

This is truly stunning. Scott Kurtz, guest of episode 5 of The Variants web series, captures a great moment of the show between Barry and Keli during a smoke break in the show.

Keli and Barry watching traffic

Great job, this is wonderful.

The gang hosts a comic book signing for guests Scott Kurtz and Dave Crosland, but they may be too much for the store to handle.

A movie pass giveaway forces the employees in the store overnight. Can they keep back the hordes and survive until dawn? Watch episode 4 of the web series, The Variants.

Episode 4 is coming. It’s spoooky! Watch the promo for the web series The Variants upcoming episode 4!

The Variants Web Series Episode 3, “The Upsell” The crew gets into character in order to increase sales.

It’s the time of year when Dallas’s own weekly publication, the Dallas Observer, unleashes its “Best of Dallas” write-up on us all. And what’s this, under the Culture section?

This scripted Web series launched in early August, but even at its onset, it was clear that the folks behind the serial shorts were on to something kinda special.

Nice one.

Jacob Nahin over at TubeFilter gives The Variants web series a flattering write-up:

“…the show and its characters are very compelling and the setting unique. Jokes are normally spot-on and will get laughs from mainstream viewers and comic-book geeks alike.

“Dead Man’s Comics” in discovering a vintage comic, Joe discovers his co-workers ignorance in Kurt Russell filmography. Watch episode 2 of the the web series The Variants.