{"id":275,"date":"2023-01-08T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=275"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:30:31","slug":"mail-call-for-1-8-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2023\/01\/08\/mail-call-for-1-8-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call For 1.8.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mail Calls seem to be rather redundant of late, with the last one being a collection of stories that I mostly had already, and this one being especially redundant, what with getting two copies of a comic I already had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t pass up these <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Graciecosplay\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Graciecosplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gracie<\/a> cosplay variant covers, which weren&#8217;t available at my local comic shop when I picked up this issue with the A cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120659.jpg?resize=640%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120659.jpg?resize=1024%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120659.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120659.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120659.jpg?w=1299&amp;ssl=1 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Immortal Red Sonja<\/em> #9E (Gracie Cosplay Variant) and #9H (Gracie Cosplay Virgin Variant)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2023\/01\/02\/mail-call-for-1-2-23\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mail Call post<\/a> talking about receiving my Substack rewards I mentioned that I had been picking up the individual physical copies of <em>Love Everlasting<\/em> as they were being released, but this is another instance of getting a comic through the mail after failing to pick it up from my local comic shop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120728.jpg?resize=640%2C990&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120728.jpg?resize=662%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120728.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120728.jpg?resize=768%2C1189&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/01\/IMG_20230108_120728.jpg?w=792&amp;ssl=1 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Love Everlasting<\/em> #5A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s another crowdfunded item I&#8217;m still waiting on and another comic I missed at the shop that I ordered, so look for those in future Mail Call posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. I stopped using the Featured Image on posts here because the end result was kind of obnoxious and took up too much space in the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2022\/11\/selfportrait.jpg?resize=518%2C516&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2022\/11\/selfportrait.jpg?w=518&amp;ssl=1 518w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2022\/11\/selfportrait.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2022\/11\/selfportrait.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>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<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mail Calls seem to be rather redundant of late, with the last one being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[42,17,38,5,30,43],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-call","tag-cosplay","tag-dynamite","tag-elsa-charretier","tag-image","tag-tom-king","tag-variants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peoZaI-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}