{"id":3795,"date":"2025-09-08T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:15:23","slug":"mail-call-for-9-8-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2025\/09\/08\/mail-call-for-9-8-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call For 9.8.25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’d been picking this book up, but I realized after reading it that the last issue I’d picked up wasn’t the most recent<\/em> issue. The shop didn’t have a copy of it by then, thus…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinupocalypse<\/em> #5C<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not necessarily the greatest book on the stands, but it is a bit fun, and I might as well see it through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mail Call Extra<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Longtime readers who actually pay attention – if we assume those exist – will recall the Mail Call posts about two Hot Toys figures based on Marvel characters and the eye-related issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first was The Mighty Thor<\/a>, whose adjustable eyes I adjusted right out of (one of) her head(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other was She-Hulk: Attorney at Law<\/a>, who arrived with one wonky eye that, thanks to the Thor mishap, I was reluctant to try to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, I decided the time had come to try to perform eye surgery on Shulkie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before tacking that, however, I decided to practice with the eyeless Thor head sculpt, as, eyes or no, that sculpt is just staying in the box anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, that meant first figuring out a way to put the eyes back in, but I decided that would be good practice, too, as the odds were good that my Frankenstein hands would knock She-Hulk’s eyes out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After multiple attempts with my iFixit tweezers, I successfully reinserted her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, “successfully” is pushing it, but they were in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After knocking them out again several times, I finally managed to get them at least somewhat aligned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, it was such a hassle that I wasn’t sure I wanted to try going through it again with She-Hulk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason I had decided to attempt the eye surgery was that I wanted to change out which hammer Thor was holding, which meant digging out the box, which is what got me to thinking about the eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hammer I was switching to has an LED inside of it, so as I looked through the instruction booklet to find out how to add the batteries to it, I noticed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See that little black joint socket that the heads are pointing to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason I had so much difficulty maneuvering this little plastic tool inside the head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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is that that the part that’s supposed to be on the neck was inside the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With that removed, it’s much easier to access the eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That also explained why the head sculpt that is on the figure has never really sat right…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as is often the case, it turns out that I was making things harder for myself than they needed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolstered by this discovery, I decided to attempt to fix She-Hulk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, in her case, that joint socket is permanently inside the head rather than being removable, but even with it in place there was much more room to maneuver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jen’s eyes are also more firmly affixed than Jane’s, so I managed to avoid knocking them out, and slight adjustments didn’t result in the same kind of wild eye movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, it’s still a lot of trial-and-error to get the tool in there and adjusting the eyes seems to involve stabbing wildly and hoping for the best, as nothing works quite the way I expect. Moving the eye one way often has the opposite of the intended effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But ultimately, I prevailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s certainly better than the way it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was at it, I followed a tip I’d seen on YouTube to make Jen’s costume look a bit more comic booky by popping off her legs and tucking in some of the material to make the bottom look more like a swimsuit than shorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t have as much luck with rolling up the sleeves as he did, though, so I just left them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In any case, I just thought I should take the time to provide some updates on Mail Calls past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You don’t have to be worthy to pick up Thor’s hammer if you can just pick up Thor. Checkmate, Odin!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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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