{"id":1242,"date":"2024-03-28T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:42:07","slug":"mail-call-for-3-28-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2024\/03\/28\/mail-call-for-3-28-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call For 3.28.24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s Mail Call is just a couple of variants I happened to see online that caught my eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw the uncolored version of this in a post on Bluesky and opted to see what it looked like in color, as I was curious if the kind of Superman ’78 vibes I got from it would lead the colorist to make her underwear pink…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Superman<\/em> vol. 6
#11D – Pablo Lobos Villalobos Incentive Variant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

…but it turned out that the published version was edited to cover her underwear. Still, I liked it enough to order it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The version I saw via shanembailey.bsky.social<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the recent passing of the legendary Ramona Fradon who had just<\/em> retired at the age of 97, I had to pick up this variant once I saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wonder Woman<\/em> vol. 6
#7F – Ramona Fradon Women’s History Month Variant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course, I probably would have bought it even if she hadn’t passed, because who doesn’t love a Ramona Fradon cover?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you’ve ever wondered why I frequently don’t buy variants at the same time as I buy the main covers, it’s because my shop doesn’t always have all of the variants. Many of them are incentive-based – that is, you have to order so many copies of a given issue in order to get one<\/em> copy of the variant cover – and the demand just isn’t high enough to justify it. It is, after all, a fairly small shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it’s because they were already sold out before I got there, as the shop has generally been open for an hour before I get there on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sometimes I just don’t notice them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I do not currently have any other variants I’m waiting for, there is a very long list of items that have yet to arrive which will soon – and not-so soon in some cases – be making their appearances in future Mail Calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born and raised in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jon Maki developed an enduring love for comics at an early age.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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