Mail Call For 3.14.26
What is it they say about never judging a book by its cover?
A while back, as I was picking up my weekly comics, I saw a book with this cover in my stack:
“Ugh,” I thought. “A K.O. one-shot. Pass.” And when I got up to the counter I set it aside and said I didn’t want it.
But the thing is, if you’re going to ignore the adage and judge a book by its cover anyway, you should at least look closely enough at the cover to see what book it is you’re judging.
Sometime later, as I was organizing comics, I noticed that I was missing an issue of Superman. I couldn’t see how, but it was nowhere to be found. I checked CLZ and confirmed that, in fact, I did not have it. Then I saw the cover for it and realized why.
While I’ve made it clear that I have no interest in the K.O. event, I do have an interest in maintaining a gap-free run of Superman.
Thus, Mail Call.
Tula Lotay Variant
Still, while it may not make it a better book, I did at least get a better cover.
Mistakes like this one will continue to happen, which means that Mail Call posts will, too, so check back soon for the next one.
Born and raised in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jon Maki developed an enduring love for comics at an early age.
