{"id":3974,"date":"2025-10-07T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:08:06","slug":"mail-call-for-10-7-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2025\/10\/07\/mail-call-for-10-7-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call For 10.7.25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Mail Call is also a Short Box. A Mail Short? A Short Call? Something like that…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, when I ordered this<\/a> a while back, I wasn’t certain if I was going to manage to pick up the final issue from the comic shop – and then when I could, I wasn’t sure if I should, but ultimately, I did<\/a> – so I also ordered that, and it arrived today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinupocalypse <\/em>#6B
Andrew Taruscov Homage Variant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And since I have it, I thought I might as well do a Short Box about the series in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Writer<\/td>Andrew Tarusov, Brendan Jones<\/td><\/tr>
Artist<\/td>Andrew Tarusov, Igor Vyunyshev<\/td><\/tr>
Cover Artist<\/td>Ryan Pasibe, Andrew Taruscov<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a book I initially picked up on a whim as a fan of cheesecake and pin-up art. I never properly added it to my pull list, so I ended up missing an issue, which is what led to the Mail Call for the previous issue and the ordering of this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, Pinupocalypse<\/em> was a fun little series that as a high-concept could be described as “Pleasantville<\/em> – albeit a slightly racier version – meets zombie apocalypse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the small town of Pinupolis, which has a 1950s pin-up aesthetic where stocking-clad long-legged ladies sashay sexily – in an innocent, saucy-but-not-too-saucy sort of way – past picket fences is besieged by zombies, good girl Foxy and bad girl Roxy must team up to not only survive the ravenous hordes but also find a way to stop the alien force behind it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s hardly the birthday that Foxy anticipated, but she gets more than she bargained for as she learns that maybe Roxy – who is just as glamourous as Foxy in her own Rockabilly way – isn’t so bad after all, and that maybe there is more to life than pretty dresses and boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because what boy could ever compare to Roxy<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is slight, but like I said, it’s fun, and the art suits the tone, being just salacious enough to add some spice, and capturing the idealized look of an idyllic little town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be fun to see the story adapted as a movie, either animated or in live action. The tongue-in-cheek tone reminds me of a series of original movies Showtime aired back in the mid-90s that were intended as an homage to campy, schlocky low-budget exploitation films from decades earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know there were at least a few made, but the only one I remember was called Girls in Prison<\/em>, which was about…well, it’s right there in the title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, that’s very much the vibe Pinupocalypse<\/em> shoots for, and overall, it delivers.<\/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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