Topps’ new series of trading cards for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story scream out “These are the cards you’re looking for” with an array of insert “chaser” cards that trading card collectors and general fans of the series will want to check out.  The term “sketch” cards almost trivializes the variety of forms of media used to create these one-of-a-kind cards.  These aren’t prints or copies of the cards–they are the one-and-only originals the artist created.  Collecting a set is nearly impossible, and if collectors don’t plan to buy boxes and boxes of cards to only get a small number of the cards (if they’re lucky) then the last resort is eBay, where cards can fetch hundreds of dollars or more for a single card.

This weekend Topps releases its new trading card set – Topps Rogue One Series 1 trading cards.  This set features 90 base cards of characters and scenes from the film plus 6 insert sets to collect plus the second set of five Darth Vader continuity cards (the first 5 cards were available in Topps Rogue One: Mission Briefing).  Topps Rogue One also includes autographs, medallion cards, and printing plates, in addition to the possibility of nabbing a sketch card.  Inserts include character stickers, montages, “character icon” cards, propaganda poster cards, vehicle blueprints, and a set each of hero and villain cards.

Autograph cards include signatures from Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso), Forest Whitaker (Saw Gerrera), Donnie Yen (Chirrut Imwe), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Paul Kasey (Edrio Two Tubes and Admiral Raddus) and Nick Kellington (Bistan).

You can purchase a box set of card packs here now at Amazon.com.

The 78 authors providing sketch cards include Achilleas Kokkinakis, Alex Iniguez, Anil Sharma, Anthony Skubis, Ben AbuSaada, Bill Pulkovski, Bob Hepner, Bob Stevlic, Brad Hudson, Brad Tabar, Brad Utterstrom, Brendan Purchase, Brent Ragland, Brett Farr, Brian Kong, Carlos Cabaleiro, Cathy Razim, Chad LaForce, Charlie Cody, Chris Meeks, D.J. Coffman, Dan Bergren, Dan Burn Webster, Dan Curto, Daniel Cooney, Darrin Pepe, David Rabbitte, Elfie Lebouleux, Eric Lehtonen, Eric Muller, Freddy Lopez, Gabe Farber, George Joseph, Ingrid Hardy, Jamie Cosley, Jason Davies, Jason Durden, Jeff Mallinson, Jennifer Allyn, Jessica Hickman, Jim Mehsling, John Sloboda, Jon Gregory, Jordan Maison, Kaela Croft, Kate Carleton, Kevin Graham, Kevin Liell, Kevin P. West, Kris Penix, Ksenia Zelentsova, Kyle Babbitt, Kyle Hickman, Lawrence Reynolds, Lee Lightfoot, Marcia Dye, Mark Mangum, Marsha Parkins, Matt Steffens, Matt Stewart, Melike Acar, Pablo Diaz, Patrick Giles, Patrick Richardson, Phil Hassewer, Ray Paez, Rich Molinelli, Robert Hendrickson, Roy Cover, Scott Houseman, Scott Jones, Shaow Siong, Solly Mohamed, Stephanie Swanger, Steve Potter, Tim Dowler, Tim Proctor, and Tina Berardi.  Cards shown below are from artists Daniel Bergren, Carlos Cabaleiro, and Kevin Graham.  First from Daniel Bergren:

From Carlos Cabaleiro:

And from Kevin Graham:

Here is a quick checklist of the base cards: